Why the downfall of Dr Bol Mel Kuol should not be blamed on President Kiir
Why the downfall of Dr Benjamin Bol Mel Kuol should not be blamed on the president and other people apart from the people of Abiem east?
By Marol Ariech Mawien, Juba, South Sudan
There are a lot of conflicting debates over time on the downfall of Dr Benjamin Bol Mel from the top hierarchy in the country back to square one which has been blamed on the people of Warrap especially those of Akuac wol, Aleu Ayeny Aleu and also involved one of our homies Ateny Wek Ateny to have orchestrated the move, but their motive was that they observed something unusual and talk about it before Bol’s dynasty fall apart, I think the above mentioned people do not have hand in the downfall, their criticism were a rescued mission, first of all in our community they say that, the one that confronted you and tell you your wrongdoers is the one that love you but those that keep quiet although you are heading towards fire doesn’t love you, so the early talks of the three mentioned personalities would have been helpful if they were taken into notes, instead of turning a deaf ears, ignorance and twisted to hatred talks.
Dr Benjamin has been in the show since the inception of the government of southern Sudan which later became the republic of South Sudan in 2011, he has been running business which makes him famous, at first he was doing business with Garang Deng Aguer that’s where they established home and Away, I don’t know whether Bol was a manager by than or a shareholder I have no clue information on that , as time goes , I heard their partnership broke up and ABMC emerged than later ARC, the guy was progressing well and I think that’s where he attracted the attention of president to bring him closer into his entourage or a team that will work with him because he may see Bol as a man of plans and strategies that will help government if applied.
The rapid growing in the business sector makes everybody create hope on him and especially the president appointed him a presidential special envoy on the special programmes, now from business community to presidency , as spectators, we see the move was good, we celebrated and raised our thumbs up to the appointing authority, kumbe within some months, emerged again more senior news of promotion from special envoy to vice president a second senior position in the country ( yazol) we were sleeping on the open ground with ululation, drums and blowing of horns with a slogan acii beny tiing ( means the boss has made the right choice) we feel the government is ours because the opportunities are at our doors, our assumptions were not true , Bol has his own trusted crooks.
The trusted crooks grabbed and siege him from his community people and from politicians and other normal people that needed access to share some ideas and their feelings were all blocked, no in or out , those crew see everybody as a negative force and the channel of access to Bol was control by two gentlemen+ that own him.
Personally I have halted my negative thoughts about the president Salva Kiir and the people of Warrap long time ago after I made my own analysis about people of Aweil, our people of NBGs like blaming others for their own making, at first it was when Gen. Paul Malong was running the show in the military and political arena in the country and he was having a closed relationships with the president, all were crying especially the so called politicians, that Paul Malong doesn’t allow people to get opportunities, he blocked Aweil politicians to ascend but after he fallout with the president, the chapter was closed.
Another blackmailing emerged ,Oooo , EEE the government is being controlled by the people of Warrap, says that they only employed themselves, I was also buying the same negative thoughts until 2020 when the new R-TGONU was established, Aweil got key positions until 2025 but the none has thought to create an inclusive opportunities, but only ended employing specific trusted family members , gossipers , sycophants , recorder and the rest of the opportunities are awarded very far for relationships building and damp Aweilians from getting those chances.
The fact remains the same that Aweilians don’t kill themselves through community conflict and intercommunal but there’s nothing worse than killing people through blocking them from getting opportunities which is the current strategy amongst Aweilians.
By the way charity begins at home, the one who says this proverb was right, this statement was the same with the statement from Nok Marial the minister of general education and instruction in lake state 2006, he was quoted saying, you cannot change your malnourished child with a fat child of another person, so what you can do is to feed your own child well inorder to become fat like the other child, in this case, other states especially Warrapians whom people always making noise to have dominated government positions at the national level are not guilty nor discriminated others but knows what it means for their own people first , even in a develop countries, the same tactics is applied, where charity begins at home but for Aweilians, they first misuse opportunity in their deposal and when it’s taken away from them, they keep blaming others for their own failure, there is a say, bee honey is first to be tasted by immediate family and extended family around before neighbours.
Bol Mel’s downfall is solely on the shoulder of NBGs people, Aweil east people and finally his home area ( Abiem east) to support this statement as the failure is a sole responsibility of his home area people, personally I was humiliated and mock live by a guy that I don’t think he can mocked me and up to now I am still thinking about it as to why he was doing such a thing to me, after Dr Benjamin was appointed as a vice president, the contribution for thanksgiving ceremony was initiated and the plan was hide from people of Abiem cien until someone who mock me in front of others told me, huh, we have thanksgiving celebration over weekend on Dr Benjamin’s appointment by the president, will you participated? before my submission I ask where’s the venue? the guy replied to me in a mockery style (in Malualbaai!) before I responded, the same person told me again ( in Madhol!) from there I pause because I understand something is fishy, I noted the information of what is going to happen over the weekend. After two days I called someone whom we are ever closed for the confirmation of the celebration over the weekend, the guy replied to me , hee the thanksgiving is only for a family, it doesn’t need the entire (Abiem Cien), look (yajamana) the whole vice president to be owned by the family or small section ( I don’t know whether the guy was meaning Atomakou , Wuutabuuk or pan Akoldit)?, from there I finally noticed there is discrimination that is happening in Abiem Cien between the two payam after the appointments of three gentlemen from one payam in the key positions at the national level.
This has never happened like this since the leadership of our great paramount chief of (Ajoung) Yor Lual (aka Yor Maker) followed by his son Malong Yor (aka Malong Manguek) and the rest, there was no discrimination, people see themselves as one and share the resources that they have amicably as one Ajoung section, I am even taken aback by unusual statement from Madhol payam when they claimed themselves as (Ajoungdit) which is a misplacement of the meaning instead of (Atomakou) because Ajoung is the entire two payam, so I think at the current century the discrimination is initiated silently by the smartest people, that Dr Benjamin Bol Mel Kuol mistakenly thought he got the right men that would connected him, built relationships with others to maintain the seat but the smartest ones fails him miserably, in the community, Bol’s trusted crooks do not have any history of generosity since ever but they are good and clean like a cat physically , therefore since Bol is being drive by those smartest with segregation strategy, that’s why the drive him in the river without hesitation and favours , because there’s no leader of a few people, a leader has to met with many people such that he can listen for good and bad advice and make his own analysis but it was not the case, the issue was if people are allowed access to Dr Benjamin Bol, they are going to penetrated and kick them out , now who kicked who out in the stage? Only them, nobody’s to be blamed, not president, not her daughter, not Akuac wol, not Aleu Ayeny or Ateny Wek, but those who refused to open windows have to carry the burden.
In April 2025 I met one of the crew and family members and I asked him , (yakui) we have been moving together but now when things become okay you block us why?, and you know the government’s camouflage, if anything happens in future, whom do you think will stand with you ? He was not happy with my question but from that time the question did not take long to answer itself.
Therefore the downfall of Dr Benjamin Bol Mel Kuol is in the hand of his own people from Abiem Cien, there is no need for fingers point on Akuac wol, Hon. Aleu Ayeny Aleu and Hon.Ateny Wek Ateny because their statements were mainly for Bol’s own good to correct himself and go on the track but nobody cares instead the useful smartest gentlemen with no good records alter the statements to initiate rivalries and the sentiment between Warrap and Aweil.
The author is a concerned citizen who can be reached via his email: [email protected]
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