Hon. Isaac Mamer Ruk: Is He still the Commissioner of Bor County?
4 min readBartholomew Akuch J., Bor, Jonglei State
April 13, 2016 (SSB) —- It was last month that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International cooperation of the government of South Sudan was sacked over the comment he made referring to Dr. Luka Biong Deng (citizen of Abyei) as a Sudanese citizen in a report about human right situation in South Sudan which he signed. If anything like that could cost the Minister his constitutional post, then the statement of the Commissioner of Bor County, Hon. Isaac Mamer Ruk about the leadership of Boma state is even more embarrassing.
On Sunday, April 10th 2016, Adol community of Konyang payam, Bor County, organized a reconciliation ceremony after it was divided by a conflict which claimed lives of four innocent people in 2013 before the outbreak of country’s current conflict in December 2013. The ceremony was a major breakthrough in reconciliation among communities as it got the attendance of high profiled sons and daughters of Jonglei state. Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, National Minister of Informational and Broadcasting, Hon. Kuol Manyang Juuk, the national Minister of defense and Veteran Affairs, Hon. Deng Dau Malek, Hon. Maker Thiong Maal, H.E. Col. Philip Aguer Panyang, Governor of Jonglei, members of his Cabinet, State MPs, Diplomats, chiefs, youth and the entire community attended this important occasion.
I’m glad to have witnessed these vital reconciliation efforts among our community but equally disappointed because of the failure of our leaders to deal with matters of communities’ wellbeing and instead embark on grooming lies to confuse the communities in order to forget about their own mischief.
Barely a month after I was told that he is influencing the governor through his longtime ally, the deputy governor for Bor Municipality to be annexed to Bor County so that he becomes the head of the two merged institutions, this time I’m not told, but I have practically seen his another ill-intended move towards the SPLM appointed governor of Boma state.
He said, if he were to be asked before the sacking of Gen. Yau Yau last year, he would have advised (the president) that Yau Yau be given the chance to further his reign as a governor of the new Boma state.
When Yau Yau was sacked last, he was the Chairperson of a different political party– the Cobra faction (SSDM) and replaced by a strong SPLM cadre, Comrade Baba Medan Konyi, former Deputy Governor of the old Jonglei state.
Why would a strong party member despise his own comrade in preference of a cadre from a rival rebel-turned party to lead in a neighboring state? Could this be the opinion of the commissioner alone or that of the government of Jonglei state?
As I could synchronize the statements (warnings) of Hon. Michael Makuei and Hon. Deng Dau about the existence and rapid multiplication of the other SPLMs (IO, FDs, DC) in the states, I could not easily come to any conclusion about the status of the statement of Hon. Commissioner of Bor County. Whether these statements coincided or one was a reciprocal of the other remains to be seen.
If the statement of Hon. Isaac Mamer Ruk was not for the government, then it is better for the government of Jonglei state to clear itself publicly and relieve the commissioner.
Bartholomew Akuch J. is a concern citizen of Jonglei state and can be reached via his email: Weng Ajoh <wengajoh@gmail.com>
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