THE SCARIFICATION OF FUEL IN JUBA
By Tearz Ayuen, Juba, South Sudan
April 13, 2016 (SSB) —- What’s wrong with these ‘SPLM’ people, ya jamana? Why do they keep causing national crises? Do they really have conscience? Do they have souls? What a bunch of shameless heartless swayers. How could they scarify the fuel?
First of all, after they were granted self-autonomy by the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, they chose stomach-buttock-neck fattening over nation building. They engaged (and still are) in a wealth amassing marathon.
Individuals go to the national bank with ‘letters from above’, instructing the bank to give the ‘bearer’ millions of dollars.
Every time donors give the country hundreds of millions of dollars meant to elevate lives, especially the grassroots, these leeches quickly plot schemes aimed at pocketing the funds. Think about the Dura Saga. Think about the Letters of Credit.
For 11 years, they raped the country. For 11 years, they buried millions in their bottomless stomachs. For 11 years, they ignored roads. For 11 years, they ignored agriculture. For 11 years, they ignored electrification of Juba, let alone the other 9 major towns. For 11 years, they grew greedier, both power and money-wise.
Power hunger led to the December 2013 crisis, which made the country bleed. It also knocked the economy into a seemingly permanent comatose state.
After exhausting ways of pocketing public money, fuel is now the new chapter. They have politicized, SPLM-ized, and unabashedly scarified the fuel. The fuel now bears tribal marks! Just like Letters of Credit, they distribute it among themselves. At night!
Hundreds of oil trucks enter the country through Nimule where they are cleared and set off for Juba. When they arrive at Nesitu, an area approximately 20 kilometers south-east of Juba. They are parked there, awaiting nightfall.
The trucks are then sneaked into the city while the residents sleep. This fuel does not go to gas stations. It doesn’t go frontline. But it is distributed at night and sold in black market at deathly prices.
Currently, filling stations are closed. But you see those big fuel guzzlers aka ‘Mith apol’ getting refilled. When you approach the attendants, you are told that there is no petrol.
However, you find black market petrol along all the roads. It is sold mostly by young people who speak the same ethnic dialect. They sell a one and half liter bottle at 180 pounds. Such an amount of petrol costs 33 pounds at the pump.
At places like Hai Tijaria, young boys (imported from the village) peddle petrol under close supervision of big bellied adults who spend time in the tree shade, playing dominos and cards. You can see their V-8s parked nearby.
Where do these half-wits think they are taking the country to? People who only think of what to swallow. Mscheew.
When asked recently why the fuel crisis is back, the Nilepet managing director Machar Achiek brushed off the issue.
“I think there is no issue of fuel shortage in Juba because if you go on the streets of Juba, you just find it being sold along the streets,” Machar said.
“So it simply means that there is a leakage somewhere. What is wrong is the supervision. And it is not the managing director who can go and make the supervision.”
Hail Mary!
Tearz © 2016
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