When Emmanuel Jal avoids the truth, he means to lie!
By Sunday de John, Nairobi, Kenya
December 18, 2015 (SSB) — When one uses his own country as a batch to attract small interests, possibly fame and wealth, the crux will like usual be self-denigration. That is the central character of a man referred to as Emmanuel Jal. This man has several definitions based on his fickle character and self-denigration.
His characteristics based on how he has been handling himself in the public spheres and particularly during the advent of recent conflict in the Republic of South Sudan are outstandingly the following: an gotist, a musician, a liar, a traitor, a cannibal and of course a politician.
This man, has habitually been lying internationally and particularly via Cable News Network (CNN) that he was a Jesh-Amer (child soldier) who once had been involved in eating fellow Jesh-Amers (child soldiers) and that eating a colleague was invoked by lack of what to eat and that his life wasn’t characteristically a normal one.
Also in the recent past, he lied that he was a licensed man-eater, he uttered that lie when in the WestJet Airliner flying from Canada to other destinations. He told the hostess that he was going to eat her should she fail to give him more cuisine. The hostess aboard had to quickly notify the crew members for the incident that was threatening her dear life.
The message detailing presence of a cannibal aboard sent chills down the spine of the crew members and the airline had to make this statement quoted verbatim “We understanding that the person in question had starved for many years when he was a child, but to clarify some confusion that he may have – WestJet is not the World Food Programme (WFP) and the food we serve aboard is more than enough to get our normal passengers to their next destination where they can buy and eat as much as they can in the many restaurants when they arrive at their destination.”
One more lie is the recent one, shamelessly, he narrated that 20,000 Nuers were murdered in Juba and correctly the message depicted him as an eye witness yet he wasn’t closer to the scene of war, and if at all he was present, what could have been his salvage since his claim was that Nuers were the ones targeted. Emmanuel knew of murdered Nuers but he knew not about those murdered from other ethnicities? He was advancing tribal cause and particularly by using his international connections.
For one to advance the case of a single ethnic group in the expense of many others isn’t patriotic and thus depicts Jal particularly as a tribal advocate.
Practically, Jal hasn’t been what he talks of internationally, the confidante confided in me that Jal was air-lifted from Leer to Lokichogio and then to Nairobi by Emma MCune, a foreign aid worker who eventually ended up being pronounced Riek’s wife but who died in an accident in Nairobi by the year 1993. However, recruits, be they child soldiers or regular soldiers hadn’t ever been air-lifted to Nairobi and I have walked to and fro Ethiopia without the utopia of Jal’s drama.
As a Jesh-Amer myself, who was trained at Dima in Ethiopia and who had been part of the so-called Jesh-Amer, our history shouldn’t be written by a man who wasn’t part of us and who is suffering from poverty of ideas. Jal has no idea about Jesh-Amerism, her derivatives and the ingredients. Shame on him.
However, this habitual liar has to run projects that aren’t as tainted as the ones he is enhancing. Seriously, he is unreliable, untrustworthy and his character isn’t Sudanic! The current war has taught me many lessons including characters of some communities, lying hasn’t been a character of arrogant society and of course likes of Jal are maiming South Sudan in the name of projects.
This is just a glimpse of what I would tell about the man in question. Till then yours Truly, Mr. Teetotaler!
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