The fall of the yellow leaf from a tree is the warning to the green one!!
3 min readBy Awut Mayom Agok, Paris, France
May 3, 2016 (SSB) — The principal drivers of youth violence are rooted in experiences of injustice: discrimination, disenfranchisement, exclusive governance structures, corruption and abuse by government security forces. For many youth, narratives of grievance are animated by the shortcomings of the state itself, which is weak, venal or violent. Or all three. Comparing the allegations made against Makoi Madhak Dier in Nairobi that leads to his life imprisonment with the aged gap between him and the small five-year-old Kenyan girl, the allegation is baseless at all.
The man is married, he is 32 years old and accused of having defiled a 5 years old girl. Seriously does this make sense? If this could be possible, what kind of humans are men for sure? The truth is, there a great weakness in the diplomatic relationship to East Africa. This is not just a trial of the man who is jailed for life, but it is a trial for the government of the Republic of South Sudan who does not stand out for the right of its own citizens. Too many things are happening at a very high speed but our government does not seem to wake up. When a yellow leaf falls down from the tree, it is a great sign that the green leaves will fall also.
The issue of Makoi will not remain his problem but mark my word, another big problem than his will definitely follow since our government does not show any reaction toward false accusations like this and other injustices that South Sudanese youths are exposed to. Anyway as per my side being a citizen of South Sudan by all sorts of membership, I will not quit and keep silent until we realize our roles. We are facing a lot of humiliation because of our own government. Wake up South Sudan.
South Sudanese have a lot of resources to waste, to add on that above point, another scenario is South Sudan government never made it official to ban wearing of ivory bangles instead, the rich top government officials buy them for their wives and daughters as a symbol of wealth and pride, but not knowing, when they go to Kenya, Kenyan government never ask if they are their elephants horns or South Sudanese elephants but they quickly make good profit on them as they are doing official campaign against the use of ivory in any form but our government never have time to inform the citizens about the usefulness of wildlife conservation and even border restrictions with such international concern.
In fact, they are proud to pay as much as they can. If at all it is made it a program on your SSTV, not to cross with Ivory stuffs to the neighboring countries, people will be aware that ivory is only useful in South Sudan territory but not in other East African countries. I have witnessed a husband of a certain South Sudanese woman paying a fine of half a million Kenya shillings for wearing the ivory bangles at the airport in Nairobi. I wonder if this is lack of information or being ignorant.
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