So Governor Bakasoro Did Say the “Snake Analogy” After All?
Governor Bakasoro’s Response to the “Snake Analogy“
“I am the one who called the conference to address the issues of pastoralists in the area. So I requested all the representatives from different communities and their leaders to attend but the MPs of Mundiri said that I should invite them officially to participate in the issues affecting their communities. How can I invite you to come and kill the snake in your own house after you have run away. What kind of leaders are they? They are supposed to be concerned about their communities because they elected them to the Parliament. How can their communities suffer while they are sitting in Juba? We want peace and that is why I convened that conference. My basic aim was to cement the relationship between the pastoralists and the hosting communities because our people are being killed, our crops are destroyed and local roads are being ambushed. So I challenged every community leader to control their youth and promote peaceful co-existence.”
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The “Snake Analogy” Attributed to Governor Bakasoro
“Dinka leaders and their community have failed our country, South Sudan. What’s wrong with you people, wherever you go, problems and havocs follow? you ran from danger in your areas and only to come and cause havoc in our state. You don’t like peaceful coexistence of people. Your leaders need to look themselves in the eye and find out why you are not welcomed by anyone anywhere in South Sudan…I blame the Moru Youths for allowing a snake into their house and crying loud for me to come all the way from Yambio to kill the snake….You have to just kill it, why wait for me?”
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