A CALLED FOR TOUGHER LAW AND ORDERS TO PROTECT FEMALE CHILD AND TO DENOUNCE CHILD PROSTITUTION IN JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN.
5 min readDEAR REGINA LULLO: DIRECTOR OF GENDER AND CHILD WELFARE AT THE MINISTRY OF GENDER, CHILD AND SOCIAL WELFARE, SOUTH SUDAN.
BY AMER MAYEN DHIEU, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA.
DEAR MADAM REGINA
I strongly believed you have your very own biological children. If not now you will have them in your near future. Madam Regina, there is a novel called “A family with no daughter is like a river without source”. I heard it and read it in the news, that a 14 years old female child who have not yet had her first menstruation period, according to science is serving more than five men, I mean having a sexual contacts with men three times her age in Juba’s brothels, the capital city of my motherland, South Sudan.
Dear Madam,
Many natural disasters like flood and drought, extreme scarcity of food and man-made disasters like civil wars and massacres had happened long before South Sudan become an Independent state. Before our families were introduce to money, at a time when our sixty four tribes of South Sudan exchange goods for goods, at a time when none of us know how to uses electricity, when firewoods were source of our energy, when cattle were everything we have. Madam Regina, Child prostitution has never been operating business, even when our country was under Arab. The few prostitutes I heard were mature enough to decide whether to be one or not.
Dear Madam
A fourteen years old female child, who is serving those rich men three times her age, is the one who will be in that position you are in now when she become adult. Apparently she have no education, she have no official address, she is not being well-cared for, she is not being protected, she sleeps in the street with no guidance to tell her the history of our country’s long struggle, what our martyrs have sacrifices their lives for. Madam Regina, by they time you will grow old, with no more energy to serve the country, you will have no one to carry your legacy. Not because there are no females to do so, but because they were not well prepare to take oath on your behave.
Dear Madam Regina
I can assure you, and I need to be specific. I am from Dinka Tribe. In Dinka’s culture, female child is adore and cherish by many people for many reasons. No family in Dinka’s culture can abandon an orphan female child because the family cannot look after her no more. One can sacrifices his or her own sweat to look after her, knowing that what he or she invest to bring this little girl up is what he or she will be rewarded in the near future when the girl become a grown up women. The reward can be inform of dowries or from the girl herself. Many families do it to keep their families in shape believing that a deceased person can be survived by his kids when they are well look after by their remain relatives.
Dear Madam Regina.
If it is true that “A family without daughter is like a river without source” then what is the source of our Country? “Why are you robbing us with generation” why are you allowing our female leaders to live and die in shame. Did anyone of you politicians ever ask why these girls become orphans at the first place? wouldn’t you think their parents might have died as soldiers or victim of civilians’s wars cause by you politician? If government did not provide you with funding, under your position can you not be able to find a group of volunteers that can enforces laws and orders to protect these kids? why is police targeting them instead of the business owners? Do you know how shameful is that for our government and our brand new country?
Dear Madam Regina
I did not mean to bombarded you with questions but I thought throwing up my burning questions into the air will saved my heart from breaking into pieces. Today I realised I have no reason to continue believing in rekindling my root, because I know I will have no one to build the remaining part of the country with. I have no younger sisters to lead and inspire.
Dear Madam Regina
From today I know my country is indeed a fail state. Fail state is a state that have failed to protect a fourteen years old female child from being sexual abused by mature age men and forcefully expose to the most shameful business in the history of our beloved nation. Fail state is a state that has failed to provide food and shelter to the orphan kids. Dear Madam, I thought South Sudan was developing. When I see those tall building in the heart of Juba city, politicians’ kids in a million dollar mansions and in privates schools and millionaires business men and women in soon to be three years old state, I thought everyone was well off and only that the differences were in salaries. I never knew small kids were starving to the point of becoming prostitutes.
Dear Madam Regina.
It is true that “wonders will never end” If it is not true that wonders will never end then please! Please! Please!, For the sake of humanity, the sake of orphan kids, the sake of our country, we need laws to protect these innocent kids. I urge and called upon all South Sudan civil society organisations to join hands and fight Child prostitutions. It is better to die a civilian than a prostitute. The generation we fought for are living us behind. They are dying before us. Madam Regina, please save our children.
@ Amer Mayen Dhieu, Brisbane, Australia.
she can be reach through her Facebook page; Amer Mayen Dhieu.
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