An Hungry Population is an Angry Population
4 min readBy Jacob Ngong Ngong- Eldoret, Kenya
April 19, 2016 (SSB) —- The physical sensation 0f hunger is related to stomach muscles, these muscle is sometimes called the hunger pang once they become server age believed to be triggered by high contraction of the ghrelin hormone. The hormone peptide yy and leptin can have an opposite effect on the appetite causing the sensation of being full. Ghrelin can be released if blood sugar level reduced a condition that can result, from a long period without food. Long term hunger, irregular meal, unbalance food results in malnutrition.
Malnutrition has both macro and micro level consequences. Micro nutrient deficiencies impair individual cognitive capacity and lower national IQ, weaken individual immune system and increased national mortality rate, hinder individual productivity lowering national income and inhibiting economic growth. Malnutrition at an early age can cause spiraling effects and deepen the influence of poverty and entrap the individual and immunities in what I may called the ‘’cycle of poverty’’.
It also affects cognitive development and intellectual capacity factors that contribute to poor educational performance. To take your attraction my dear reader let me highlight to you some of the things that are now happening in our country over thirty people starve to death in Kapoeta eastern Equatoria majority are breastfeeding mothers and children under five years of age thousands of people have left already to Kakuma refugee camp.
They occupied about three camps now in Kakuma and they called themselves economic refugees and majority of them are saying they wouldn’t go back to their motherland south Sudan. A woman in Aweil with three children whose her husband was killed in frontline defensing the nation.
The salary was cut off, by corrupts individuals she tried to report it to the division commander but there was no response about that and she was affected by the price of commodities in the market because one mallow (tiny) of sorghum is costing hundred ssp in the market and nobody could support her with the kids, she opted to cross the border to Sudan she was blocked at the border not to crossed to Sudan and told her to go back.
While coming back home and tried to run some small business that may sustain her life with her kids but the situation was beyond her controlled she decided to escape through the bush by not using the border unfortunately she met with lion which ate her with three children only her survive. Over thousands had move earlier to Khartoum with almost half of them regretting, why are separated from Sudan?
Their coming back is not known. Hundreds of people are dying every day of diseases like cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease tuberculosis, cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases that can be treated. Thousands of people on coma in PHCU, PHCC and other health care run by international agency.
Almost half of the students across the country drop out from the school since prices of goods increase now and then with price of pen raised to 10 ssp and school fees also increased. failed to manage but rather drop out and used the coping strategies, ironically the sons and daughters of corrupts individuals are trying hard to lose weight going for nutrition counseling every month some of them paying school fees for their foreign boyfriends and girlfriends as well.
Others are doing what I may not mention here, where is the spirit of nationalism why are we killing our common citizens and struggle much to get personal benefits by using the national funds? When will we learn to say the truth and do the truth to the people? Could we blame Arab who marginalize use to separate or could we blame God we create us in South Sudan? We cannot solve the problem by using the same thinking we used when we create them.
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