NEVER TOO LATE FOR JUBA CITY MAYOR TO REGULATE THE OPEN-SELLING OF COFFINS EVERYWHERE IN THE CITY
By Lino Lual Lual, Juba, South Sudan
November 10, 2015 (SSB) — Business does not only mean buying and selling. It’s also need to consider what we sell to our customers. The purpose of this article is to question the honesty of our traders, and by our traders, I mean both foreigners and nationals. Over the period I have been willing to buy a certain things in our local market, I am convinced that these business people of ours just sell things to our unsuspecting customers, even when the items sold are of low quality.
If marketers are on their own thoughts to say that, making money in unethical items in the market which disturbs the mind set of our old aged persons and young ones going on their daily life. Definitely, the general public may ask help from the authority concern on how the business of ordinary or VIPs’ ready-made coffins at every roadside of Juba city can be operated because, money was never a big motivation for the author except as way to keep score the real excitement is playing game.
My readers, general public and I strongly appealed to your office – the Juba city mayor, to look into this business of ready made coffins.
Our life as human being always requires a lot of attention in what we eat, and what we drink (including hot ones).
All that risk our lives; Especially the diseases like blood pressure and diabetes coupling with the old-age of our elders, again mix with the image of societal-forbid things like ready-made-coffins contributes negatively psychologically and spiritually to their weakening selves that thereafter fasten their lives into the coffins upon landing his/her sight on it on the way or by the roadside – where they are displayed as pleasantries
In the house or in any event, and therefore holding prayers and paying respect to our beloved one we lost is important in our society
Coffins deserves secrecy and, or separately placed in the hospitals or big clinics and not to be sold mixed-up in the shops with other food commodities in those markets of Nyakuron, Munuki and Juba Na’Bari
The coffins should not be made any how without notices of their length and size if necessary.
It happened in one of the churches in Nigeria where a billionaire (man) came to the church with his little cat and pay a cheque of $500,000 to the priest and asked him to baptize his cat with the other children, the priest humbly accepted and baptized the cat.
Shortly later, the bishop came and he was told about the baptizing of the cat, he (the Bishop) immediately called the priest shouting at him, ‘are you mad, how can you Baptist the cat’? ‘Your grace, ‘that Billionaire paid us $500,000 just for his little cat to be baptized’, the Priest, in low tone replied
When His Grace heard of that sum amount of dollars, he lowered his voice and said to the priest, ‘very good, now go out and tell him to come with that little cat, I want to give that little cat confirmation by myself so that cat receives the holy spirit from God almighty’. Where on the earth does that one happen?!
An unbelievable in the house of God and in the teaching of theology, you cannot sale something holly even if we all love to be rich
In fact, no body doesn’t like money, but the selling of ready-made coffins with the mark “cross sign of Jesus Christ” on it targeting only one religion as if only Christians dies alone in the country that comprises Muslims and non-believers is unfortunate.
I was told that the market prices in 2013-2014 coffins sold in South Sudan were basically good than previous years as I quoted one of the coffins’ sellers as he was complaining about slow market.
This practice needs to be addressed seriously; it should not be like the increase of Dollar rate in the black market.
How can anybody who just taking a walk by the road side be asks whether he /she has a dead body probably, ‘the coffins is there for sale’ that is an abomination!
The laws are partly formed for the sacks of good people in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly term with one another’s’ betterment for this nation to unite us as one South Sudanese, one nation in which our ambition for ourselves simple values and right one.
The author can be reached via Linolual69@yahoo.com
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