The Mayor of Juba should regulate the open-selling of coffins on roadside in the city
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By Lino Lual Lual, Juba, South Sudan
May 20, 2016 (SSB) — Business is widely considered to be anything that ended with two effects no matter which sides the two belong good one or bad one, it does not only mean buying and selling. It’s also need all of us to consider what we sell to our customers. The purpose of this article is to question the honesty of our African traders in Juba and South Sudanese traders in particular. Over the period I have been willing to buy some certain things in our local markets, I am convinced that these business people in Juba do just sell their any things to innocent customers, even when the items sold are of low quality and others are no longer useful for consumption.
If marketers are on their own thoughts to say that, making money in unethical items in the market which disturbs the mind set of our old aged persons and young ones going on their daily life is moral then. Definitely, the general public may ask help from the authority concern to address issues on how the business of open-selling of coffins with the title, ordinary or VIPs’ ready-made coffins at every roadside of Juba city can be operated. Because, money was never a big motivation for the author except as way to keep score the real excitement is playing game.
My readers, general public and I strongly appealed to your office – the Juba city mayor, to look into this business of readymade coffins. Our life as human being always requires a lot of attention in what we eat, and what we drink (including hot ones).
All that risk our lives. More especially the diseases like blood pressure and diabetes coupling with the old-age of our elders, but when they are force to freely watch or check on for their food items in the shop mix with the societal-forbid things like ready-made-coffins, it will contribute negatively, psychologically and spiritually to their weakening selves that thereafter fasten their lives into the coffins upon landing his/her sight on it on the way or by the roadside – where they are displayed as pleasantries.
Coffins deserves secrecy and, or separately placed in either the hospitals or big clinics and not to be sold openly and sometimes mixed-up in the shops with other food commodities in those markets of Nyakuron, Munuki and Juba Na’Bari. The coffins should not be made any how without notices the length of deceases and size if necessary.
It happened in one of the churches in Nigeria where a billionaire (man) came to the church with his little cat and pay a cheque of $500,000 to the priest and asked him to baptize his lovely white cat with the other children in the other church, the priest humbly accepted and baptized the cat.
Shortly later, the bishop came and he was told about the baptizing of the little cat, he (the Bishop) immediately called the priest shouting at him, ‘are you mad, how can you Baptist the cat’? ‘Your grace, ‘that Billionaire paid us $500,000 just for his little cat to be baptized’, the Priest, in low tone replied.
When His Grace, the bishop heard of that sum amount of dollars, he lowered his voice and said to the priest, ‘very good, now go out and tell that white little cat man to come with that his little cat, I want to give that little cat confirmation by myself so that the cat receives the holy spirit from God almighty’. Where on the earth does that one happen?! An unbelievable in the house of God and in the teaching of theology, you cannot sale something holly even if we all love to be rich.
In fact, no body doesn’t like money, but the selling of readymade coffins with the mark of “cross sign of Jesus Christ” on it targeting only one religion as if only Christians who dies alone in the country is unfortunate. My Ugandan comrades and friends who are penetrating on this occupational should have known that death is universal for all creatures, death is death regardless of different religious status whether Christians, Muslims or non-believers.
I was told that the market prices in 2013-2014 coffins sold in South Sudan were basically good than previous years as I quoted one of the coffins’ sellers as he was complaining about slow market.
This practice needs to be addressed seriously; it should not be like the increase of Dollar rate in the black market. How can anybody who just taking a walk by the road side going to his/her normal business be asks whether he /she has a dead body probably, ‘the coffins are there for sale’ that is an abomination!
The laws are partly formed for the sacks of good people in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly term with one another’s’ betterment for this nation to unite us as one South Sudanese, one nation in which our ambition for ourselves simple values and right one.
The author is a master of strategic studies at Centre for Peace and Development Studies University of Juba, He can be reached via Linolual69@yahoo.com
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