We Dearly Miss You Dr. Makoi: I don’t Believe That You Are Gone!!!!
By Ariik Atekdit, Tonj, South Sudan
May 4, 2016 (SSB) —- It is now one week since you abruptly left us on 28 April 2016 my dear brother. It is so unfortunate that you untimely departed leaving us behind in total distressed and confusion. Your many colleagues in Upper Nile University miss you and I miss you more than I can reflect. But why did God take you away when you really deserve to stay among us any longer? To me it is so painful to accept that your death is a reality. Is it true that you are gone? You don’t suit to be called late at your age. I thought God would keep you among us and work for your nation.
As I write this article, it is after I have waited to see you again but all in vain; it is now a week and all I could feel and see around me is a total desperation in the eyes of your many friends and relatives. When I heard about your death Dr Samuel Akol Makoi from Mr. Majak Juba I could not believe that it was a reality. I thought it was a lie and I prayed for God to make it a lie; however, it forced itself to be a truth and you are not any longer on earth.
On the morning of 29th April was the day I cursed the truth. It is not correct to accept that you are dead. It is sometimes better to have a lie among many facts; your death is truly an inappropriate fact. I remember the time we had been together in Malakal in the college and our closed togetherness we had kept in Juba enjoying the campus’ life together as the graduates of the year. It has been a while together, thinking together, talking together, deciding together, arguing together, walking together and taking our cups of coffee together at the campus. Nevertheless it is very bad to think that it will not repeat itself again, may be in heaven when I come there.
You were such a very good colleague and a friend I am proud of. I had wanted and thought that we should grow into leadership together with you and save our country. However, it is very unfortunate that you departed with that very great knowledge the university has given you. It has been a long while in the campus since we came together to Upper Nile University in 2009 and to sadly learn that you are no more with us.
Our togetherness since 2009 until the day you departed won’t be forgotten. True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for a while. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they’re never dead in your heart. We shall not forget you Dr Makoi!!!
Upper Nile University has indeed lost a great leader, a great graduate and smart man both physically and in mind. Dr Makoi you died at the time we badly need your presence among us because, it was only in January 2016 that you ended your academic expedition in the Faculty of Public and Environmental Health. It is a very crucial field that South Sudan as a nation needs its graduates but you are gone and no more, a fact that is unbelievable.
You died at the time your family wanted to harvest the knowledge they have invested in you for all your life time, in Primary, secondary school and finally when you successfully finished your academic struggle in the college. You were by this time left to look for a job to assist and serve your family, your nation and the world.
It is unfortunate that you have died without leaving behind an offspring (a child) that we shall remember you on. You came to this world and we saw you so clever, so handsome and very smart but you died without a child. This is what my Dinka culture called a disaster!
I drop tears and my face and cheek is dump with tears when I remember the days we used to meet at the campus and jokingly boasted out with our two V-fingers pointing out saying: “We are the only two among thousands!” I am now left alone in a very painful situation. I hope and pray that the almighty Father keeps you at His right hand side in Heaven.
It is really painful to die very shortly while waiting to get your degree that you have successfully finished. It is a very painful death! My condolence to the family members, closed friends and well-wishers!! My condolence to Upper Nile University and to the Faculty of Public Health and to the graduates of that year!!
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