THE SECOND RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON OF NYADAK: WHAT AWAITS HIM?
8 min readBy Kon Joseph Leek, Juba, South Africa
October 19, 2015 (SSB) — In African traditional cultures especially the Nilotic one, the son of a woman is he who does the misdeeds that reflects shame and disgrace in him to his parents and the whole clan.
He may either be weak in thoughts and look, weak to take the animals for grazing or weak to farm, in wrestling or inter-clans’ fighting or talking – the type that starts what ends roughly always on his side.
The father and the uncles conclude him to be too much of his mother. This leads the father to send the son to his in-laws to at least advice him for he is their type and hence may know how to deal with such caliper.
Where there are many sons of women, Riek Machar is not an exceptional but a true example of such
He started it in 1991 with the aim of overthrowing late, Dr. John Garang De Mabior. A trial which lastly resulted to him running to Omar El’Bashir who was the South Sudanese common foe and made love with him
He called it a coupe together with his then boyfriend Lam Akol Ajawin. He (Riek) mobilized his majority Nuer elements together with Lam’s Shiluk affiliates to help him in overthrowing Dr. Garang; a member of a minority Dinka Bor tribe whom he thought cannot row the boat carefully to the other side of the river. He based his plans on infamous politics of numbers! Nuer accorded him right. “He is the right man who can be the head indeed”, they reasoned.
Among other things, he’s a doctor just like Dr. John Garang. Many primitives and illiterate natives from Nuer gave him phrases like, “ce goar mane cooh’de/jokge!” literally meaning that he is learned up to his back/can writes with even his feet!
Another thing being a leftie whom he presumed Prophet Ngundeng Bong talked about.
Ngundeng is also alleged to have mentioned a person with gap in his upper teeth to lead this country one time, due to the assumptions that Ngundeng meant him, makes Riek to proudly display his teeth 24/7 with his mouth wide-opened like that one of a hyena waiting for flies and other insects to swathe its mouth and closed it thereafter and he (hyena) called it a lunch – nobody knows what might fall into one’s mouth, Mr. Hyena’s infamous philosophy of food’s searching! For the world to see, he has to open his mouth as wide as he can
Besides, him being a highly learned person, he was also regarded to be the most handsome academician Nuer has ever had; a leader was good to be handsome anyway of which he has to use his mojjo of handsomeness to charm the people not knowing that brain is a key to everything.
He also got married to a white lady Emma McCune, A Briton aid worker to whom he had declared to be a fully transformed African who has had the Western civilization passed through him during his studies in the white peoples’ land and that he would die a one woman-man just like whites do.
He could walk with her in the Nuer villages from Adokbaar to Panyijaar and again westward to Nasir and Southward to Waat and Akobo in fetch of fame. ‘First of its kind and the best one that the son of Machar Teny’dhurgon has brought a white lady on our soil’, many would lament in excitement
He was a capitalist (just like his in-laws, the British) and Garang a socialist whose block (the Eastern/Socialist block) collapsed during Riek’s void coupe in 1991. He fancifully believed that his in-laws – the Western world would support him but since the words that are said with excitement and concluded with emotions usually lacks wisdom and reasons. Gat’Machar was wrong anyway. He saw the U-turn that shocked him and immediately ran to his godfather Omar Hassan El’Bashir in Khartoum
Garang later denounced a coupe, ‘that there is a coupe? What coupe! They did no coupe. I am just a rebel, I have no government, and it is Omar who has. What I have is only this stick (mayuai) of mine’.
He continued that, ‘where I sleep is a grass thatched house and my office is just a shade under any tree in the bush. What is it that needed to be taken from me? He asked, de hallah fadhi (it is a space) that they (Riek and company) want to take. And if they take or destroy that grass thatched house today, I can go and build it somewhere’.
‘They say that John Garang must go, where do I go and it is a war that we are fighting. When we were in Pande Monyjang and any tribal or inter-clan fighting erupts, is any one chased out in it that we don’t want you in this fight? What good is in war and it is only death that is in it!’ Dr. John told Jiesh’amer in Polataka
Twenty two years later, another coupe and thereafter – rebellion, Road followed became the same; Khartoum support again!
He tried his best to mobilize his Nuer tribe for rebellion and hooligans like Gen. Junti’Iraq aka Gatdet Yak, a man who swings like a rope from side to side followed their tribal man.
People like Koang Chuol Raanlei, one of the few Nuer’s intellectuals and generals who did not rebel in 1991 got poisoned with Riek’s virus and therefore followed him
Gatwech Dual Hoth Thei Biny, son of our own Adit Yol Doh Tiit ran out of Juba after he claimed that he was attacked in his resident by some SPLA soldiers sent by a few Dinka Generals suffering from Nuerphobia
This Gatwei guy left Juba till he found himself in Uror where he mobilized the children of dak’kediook, he combined with Duop Lam of Gatweer Nuer then Gatwei Chaan aka Tanginya and mabor dhol Agot Akoy (another lousy nephew of Dinka) from Lak Nuer (clan-men of Wurnyang Gatkek, 1991 Riek’s spiritual power provider – killed by Lou Nuer in Yuai in Feb, 2006 by the force of Dei’E-Boor commanded by Jok Reeng Hoth Koriom, a cousin to Gatwei Adit but also have a root in Dinka of Duk) – where they became responsible for the destruction of Gen. Gatwei mother’s and Mabor Dhal grandmother’s home town Duk county and later Mading-Bor.
Unlike the biblical prodigal son’s proverb, Nyadak’s prodigal son is not a Jesus’ proverb and not a fiction. It is a true story of Machar’s son who is known for carrying ropes to many houses and hangs them
He ran out of Juba to the bush where he ate worms and roots of trees like an ape after having exhausted his eight years shares of rob and is soon coming back home to apologize to his father that, ‘father, I have sinned against heaven and against you, I am no longer worthy to be your son. Make me like one of your hired servants’.
The father should then organize a feast for his son and forgave him thus should be like, ‘for this son of mine was dead and is a live again, he was lost and is found’.
Now that he is coming, we highly welcome him back though he is coming back with more sorrows, death and division – small one of a devil is as well a devil who is not fully grown up yet
The worse leader of our life time who calls himself a Doctor but he is more of a witch doctor than a doctor of philosophy as his doctorate is indeed sending people to their graves early and he enjoys it.
None of his children starved to death or died in the front line but sons of ignorant and illiterate Nuer are dying in support of their sword’s wailer
Gat’Machar Teny Dhurgon is a true personification of Devil!
Others say that he got baptized – the type of Dak Kueth Deng Mayen’aguembiaai’s baptism isn’t! That he is called Gabriel like angel Gabriel and the mischievous sprite from Adokbaar (Leer) is not living up to the true name!
Others calls him Manasseh just like one of the best leaders, the former deputy governor of central equatoria state Manasseh Lomole Waya and former Bishop of Kajo-keji diocese his lordship Manasseh Benye, and still is not living the examples of two Manassehs I mentioned above!
He still believes in Witch doctors from Nuerland like him, the like of Dak Kueth Deng and Wurnyang Gatkek Luom among others
He (Riek) has never had his knees bent to pray for the wave of shame and embarrassment would force him up.
For his life has been and still is picking a sword to search for people in their houses and slaughter them for sacrifice in order to maintain his political fame.
Of evil to bend his knees to pray its guilt, to implore forgiveness of God is the hardest thing in the world.
What I hate most is making the mighty people of Nuer viewed by the world as rebellious tribe for they buzzed in mountain size swirling and twirling here and there, then there and here following up one lunatic who have no feelings
He jumps out of fire to fire – again picked out and put in a cold place but still jumps as if there is something that pinch his butts – say, like needles pricks his butts and jumps up again and his majority tribesmen follows him to the same fire and later claims that, ‘ce jaang nei hoa maai’.
I am very sure that what will always come from this one doctor is division, not unity as claimed by the UN, Troika and IGAD
For this doctor will always be against peace as he always does
The peace has been signed; his strife is not just this (vice presidency) and has never been it but presidency. I wish you success in your third coupe and rebellion gat Nya’Goo Nyaang!
The writer is a commentator on contemporary South Sudan, he can be reached on j.konleek@gmail.com
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Amen!