Rest in Peace my Friend!!!
FIRED! My friend is fired. He was working as a freelance journalist for a certain western media house, was their source of info from, about, in Juba, South Sudan. He has been getting “cool” money, dollars, Euro etc.
And me as his self-decreed adviser, consultant etc has been part and parcel of the splurge. It is true, we been heartily drinking the money. FREE kawaja money.
Then yesterday, some netters reported “heavy fighting” in the heart of the city-Juba. Kawaja called, demanding, not news (he heard it, he thundered), but photos and possibly some video clips of the scene…the aftermath of the fight in Juba. Some bodies lying on the street, Bentiu-style, Bor-style.
After all, it was a heavy fighting in the heart of the city.
We were stunned. There was, is no fighting in Juba. My friend attempt to convince Kawaja that it is/was a rebel propaganda machine at its best landed him in the “sacking” decree.
Done deal, he is fired. Kawaja was furious: “I can’t keep on paying a gov’t agent.”
Sulking his way home, or was it into a bar, my friend was furious: “Why are these Nuers in Amerka spreading false info, inciting Equatoria to fight when they themselves have not liberated Nasir and Bentiu? Do they think that Equatorians will fight their war like a white army?”
Cool down man, I told him, as we entered the bar. Rest in peace my friend, I continued, it ain’t a big deal.
Get over it, man does not live on bread alone. Waiter………..
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