So Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba is one of the Collo spies directing the SPLA to humiliate and outlaw all the SPLM-DC members, most of who are residents of the Shilluk Kingdom? What a shame to this malicious witchunter!!!

Look at this shameful conclusion from Dr. Nyaba: "The SPLM-DC is undergoing de-legitimisation and may soon be outlawed in Southern Sudan." By being made a minister by Mr. Slava Kiir, Dr. Nyaba is ready to eliminate his very own people. Let's see how he will do it freely without retaliaion!!!

The example of Chief Peter Oyath is just a lively one around the corner and I hope the Miniser read the warning article by one of the Presbyterian pastors who is much concerned about people of the Collo Kingdom.

Hon. Peter Adwok Nyaba: Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Government of National Unity (GONU). Mr. Minister, first and most, I will like to congratulate you for the ministry position. I had promised myself once that, I don't want to engage in south Sudan politics any more, since it had turn people who served it in to trashes.
Hon. Minister: Peter Adwok Nyaba, you used to and you still my mentor, uncle, brother and above all a teacher. I respects you more than any Wad Collo intellectuals, due to your out spoken. You never hide or silent. I appreciated those qualities you have.

Dr. Nyaba, you turn me off dear!!
I don't care if you speak on behave of SPLM or SPLM-DC.
You said the SPLM-DC is now responsible for the disaster in Gar particularly in Wic Rek and Pachodo; its leaders are responsible for the death of children and elderly people now plugged out from their natural environment in their homes.
As a leader, what did you do, to save a life of these innocence people? They deserve it right because they are from Gar? Dr. Adwok, don't remember us of Dr. Lam ........"when he was the commander of Northern Upper Nile (1987/88) until he and his forces finished all their cows, goats and sheep.
When Lam forces did not protect them from the SAF forces they migrated enmasse to Jebelien (1989/90) where the Sabah Arabs slaughtered over two thousand of these people displaced from their homes by Dr. Lam and his SPLA forces.
Dr. Nyaba, they had all these, because of supported they offered to SPLA/SPLM but not Dr. Lam.
Didn't the same people welcome and accept Dr. Lam Akol into their ranks when Dr. Riek Machar humiliated and unceremoniously dismissed him from the SPLM/A-United in February 1994?" Dr. Lam was their son and Ocollo, whom they will never let down. Remember, "blood is thicker than water."
The people who carried Dr. Lam Akol shoulder high are the ones he betrayed in 2005 when he refused to have them integrated into the SPLA on account of them being illiterate but instead selected his relatives and sent them to the SPLA GH/Qs for integration. The bulk were left in the cold categorised as ‘unconfirmed names' or ‘monydit' who roamed our homes in Juba scavenging for assistance.
Caution: Never ever, uncapped the mistreatment my people of Gar particularly in Wic Rek.
Gar people became a laughing stock. Wow!
-Gar serves you, but you called them illiterate
-They fought as SPLA and they were called as unconfirmed names
-They were left in Collo land whiles the leaders they respects, taking their relative to SPLA GH/Qs for integration.
-They are not unemployed, because they don't have minister or Generals to employ them.
-None, of them will go to South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda for scholarship that offered to all southerners by the GOSS since they don't have any one to speak on their behave.

A shame of you all!!!!

Dear Peter Ojwal
Please cool down. You will be more frightened when the whole history is written. What I did was to hilight some aspects of this history being written. It is always to say the truth no matter how better it may be and to be accused of being a spy should not deter one. I know that you are in Malakal and should be conversant with the reality notwithstanding how you may interpret these facts. The guy in Brazil will one day come to Southern Sudan and should not threaten me while still in the comfort of the Sudan Embassy in Brasilia. What is he doing there if he feels the pains of our people. He should just come back and pick a Kalashinkov rifle.Regards

What an honor to read the article of scholar Dr Peter Adwok, I wish south Sudan had 10 people of your intellectual status. You had sacrifice dear in the course of war of liberation.
You have tell it as it is , that this opportune Dr Lam Akol , had manipulate the Chollo for so long and all have for his greed and thirst for power he will sleep with the devil to have it his way. As for this young child call James Okuk, don’t waste our time replying such an idiotic, I don’t know what more does he want Dr Lam to do for have him. I don’t think he will come back to south Sudan, mark my word the time he set his toe in south Sudan they will cut him into pieces.

Dr minster Peter Nyaba,if you think Gar Northern Collo people are not SPLM/A. You have fooled by the position that has given you couple of months ago so that you started talking about Gar or Wic Rek,Kodhok,and all northern Collo is not SPLM/A or left out as not SPLM/A. Gar has been in SPLM since the beging. Talk Dr you are not in the heaven. No body is against SPLM party and body is against SPLM-DC party as both of them are politiacl parties and everyone has choice."You are laoughing because SPLM/A is killing,raping and beating people Gar people". Laough and do your things against Gar people,but do not miscalculate your math. Gar knows how to deal selfish people you.

Dr. Nyaba, I would love to hear the whole history. I don’t get it, what all this about.
For your information, I had never been in Upper Nile since 1986, neither have I been in Africa.
Why do I have to go, where I will be marginalize for not having anybody to find me a job. In south Sudan, it doesn’t matter what kind of degree you have, it need somebody to back you up.
So do I have any one, NONE. Where are wad Gar, they are all illiterates as it was said. But for those who called themselves as Collo leaders such as (Dr. Nyaba, Dr. Lam, Pagan and Oyai), only look after their kinship. By the way, I don’t need job, from any one of you. I am proud of what I have. I earn it from my hard work, not begging.

I am asking you four, to be considered about the damage you are cause to my people “Gar”. Neither, does any one of you condemn the disaster that you leaders cause to these unarmed civilians. I am so disappointed to what you guys had done to people of Wic Rek.
All in all, the unknown will be known.
Thanks
Peter Ojwal
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Either this work is an act of retaliation against angered voters or an expression of gratefulness for being reinstated. It becomes obvious that Chollo local residents are victims of political rivalry, personal enmity and egoistical attitudes.

How could such a distinguished elder and a political leader put up a plucky justification against the victims by saying "...Many of our people were murdered, raped, brutalised, etc, by the Sudanese army because they supported the insurgency...".

Was our president Kiir mistaken when he condemned the SPLA unethical's behaviours against the Pigi county's people, because of general George Athor's hide-out? was it not because the president know that such a brutal behaviour (rape, looting properties etc..)run counter to SPLM and GOSS's policy?
I get overwhelmed thinking about human situations in these areas, who are voiceless and helpless. As the leaders think in this way, the situation will force people to move farther and farther a way from their homes.I thought people like Dr. Adok and the likes will condemn the solidiers brutal action against innocent people, so that tomorrow they will treat the civilians humanly and fairly.

It's all very well for our political leaders to be uncaring about the victims's situation, but what goes around comes around, and we never know when it will be another person or people turn. may be the next time will be the Southern Chollo areas where the writer village is.

Dear Dr. Nyaba,

It is a good for people like you to get involved in debate on the issue affecting the lives our people. I used to admire you and many of your writing regarding Padang Dinka and Chollo conflict. But on your recent article posted on Pachodo website with regard to Padang Dinka Chollo land conflict I disagree in which you tried to confuse the issues between Padang Dinka and Chollo with Dr. Lam’s SPLM-DC.

The solution to this on going conflict does not lie in having a Chollo militia to counter the Padang Dinka aggression. I disagreed with your selection of word “Chollo militia” I do not think we should call Chollo common resistant against Padang Dinka encroachment into Chollo land as Chollo militia. It is the duty of all Chollo sons and daughters to defend their ancestral land against the Padang Dinak encroachment or any other foreign aggression for that matter. You argued that the solution should be done through the legal and administrative processes at the Upper Nile State and GOSS levels.

My question to you, Dr. Nyaba, is that in your capacity as a senior member of SPLM have you and others Chollo senior members of SPLM made any attempt to resolve the issue through the legal and administrative processes at the Upper Nile State and GoSS level? If you have not done so but merely talking than, I believe Chollo may have the right to blackmail Chollo politicians who are the seniors of members of SPLM for their silence over the issue. Therefore, the Chollo politicians are cooperating with Dinka elites within the GoSS to betray the whole Chollo community because of their resentment against and political differences with Dr. Lam.

I am sure you still remember very vividly the courageous decision made by our brother and uncle, late Dr. Walter Kunijowk when he resigned from his ministerial post because the government in Khartoum and their militias were terrifying Chollo people and killing many innocent people in Chollo area during 1980s. You and other Chollo seniors SPLM members should have followed Dr. Walter Kunijowk footsteps if you really care about your own people. It does not make any sense to be in the government of South Sudan while your own people are being killed by SPLA. Unless you have become a Dinka puppet who betrays his own people for his political interest or personal gain. If you are a man of your people, you cannot remain silence while shameful crimes are being committed against your own community Chollo by SPLA.

The problem of Padang Dinka –Shilluk lands started before Dr. Lam formed his party and we should not mix things up but put blame where it belongs. There is no connecting between Chollo forming common resistance movement against Padang Dinka encroachment into the Chollo land and Dr. Lam's party. It is a legal duty for all Chollo to resist Padang Dinka encroachment on Chollo land.

Nobody in this world would survive without land. And anybody who wants to occupy anybody's land does not want those people to exist. To be honest with you uncle Nyaba, I am member of SPLM but I will never substitute Shilluk land for the SPLM membership or political interest as some of you have and are doing for the sake of their political survival.

As you said that, “SPLM-DC is operating a parallel and invisible government in the Chollo Kingdom.” Is this the reason the why GoSS and SPLA have humiliated whole Chollo community, simply because Dr. Lam party is operating in the Shilluk Kingdom?

I think those who are dividing Chollo over the land issue between Padang Dinka and Chollo are those who want to confuse the issues between Padang Dinka and Chollo land conflict with the SPLM-DC Party. Why should Chollo have to be punished for SPLM-DC sins while many Chollo do not necessarily belong to SPLM-DC party?

Again, you argued the Chollo people are divided over this issue because those who oppose it don't see any justification. It is like we fighting the Government of Southern Sudan, which is our government. Fighting GOSS looks like draws a wedge between the Chollo and the rest of the South. Dr. Nyaba let us be honest with ourselves, you are trying to justified what GoSS / SPLA are doing in the Chollo Kingdom against unarmed Chollo civilians.
If you think GoSS is our government why are SPLA soldiers killing innocent Chollo civilians, raping girls and women and burning villages?

Everybody is aware that SPLM has political differences with SPLM-DC party but is it right to single out the whole Chollo community as enemy of GoSS/ SPLM and they deserve what GoSS/ SPLA are doing against them?

I would like uncle Dr. Nyaba justified his argument to us that what is happen in Chollo Kingdom against innocent Chollo civilians is what they deserve.
Thanks

Jwothab Othow

Mr. Nyaba’s counterattack to Mr. Otto’s piece did not add up to a compelling cause, that he aimlessly sought to seduce the masses into the belief that the ordeal in Collo Kingdom today is all SPLM-DC or Mr. Lam fault.

No responsible person let alone a leader can justify the unspeakable horrors in the Kingdom, burning of villages, confiscations of cattle, rap and desecration of the Fashoda shrine by the SPLA under code name disbarment. Where else in the South Sudan is that happening?

Mr. Nyaba might think that through his writings he can extricate himself from the responsibility to what is going on currently in Shilluk land. The question to be asked is for what end is Mr. Nyaba resorting to so phenomenally expensive a bluff:

“What is happening in the Chollo Kingdom will not derail the exercise by the people of Southern Sudan of their inalienable right to self-determination in the internationally supervised referendum on January 9th, 2011.”

Perhaps the split between a leader like Mr. Nyaba and the masses had been concealed as long as the struggle lasted. It became tragically evident in the aftermath. It is true that Mr. Nyaba had done his share in our people struggle for independence heroically, but it should not be forgotten that for the most part he was deployed far away from the Collo Kingdom as such he missed to witness how Collo young men engaged the enemy with their allies who are now in bed with Mr. Nyaba’s allies in South Sudan.

Frankly, people are fed up with your bitter obsession with Mr. Lam; it says much about your character than Mr. Lam character, that a person in your age is anchored and undone by differences which date back almost two decades. If you are looking for a political swap is not happening and will not happen. Collo public will not follow sleep walking with you into opportunism; your allies in South Sudan had chosen to play with fire that will eventually burn you all.
Mr. Nyaba what you are doing is negative.
Best regards,
Peter Bedepiny

Nominal educational minister, Dr. Naba, your warning that failure of Dr. Lam Akol to win the presidential April election will bring an attack on southerners is baseless because extermination of Collo people doesn’t begin after election, but it is the execution of Dinka policy you yourself have wrote about before election. The execution was begun in Anakdiar and Abanimo. After those incidents, Collo intellectuals and ordinary people have raised question of how to protect their land from aggressive Dinka. Letters were written to Upper Nile state governor, unity government and GOSS urging leaders to end Dinka brutality. Dr. Naba that was a time when fire bottom was ignited by relatives of Collo victims. In addition, more than 300 SPLM members broke away and ran as independents, and one of them George Athor is SPLA enemy today; therefore, not the failure of Dr. Lam to win presidential election that inflicted more mortal grievances. Because of your horrible confusion, I mark you as coward, fruitless leader and historical twister. You must understand this, Collo people are capable without Dr. Lam or you in SPLM to manufacture young leaders to protect their land. Remain too concern about Dr. Lam, but Collo’s daily mortal grievance creates movement within each house that will bring stability and justice to South and our kingdom. Your policy in Juba is encouraging creation of fundamentalists that could blow you into air with your eating table in Juba.
You bloodlessly and unsympathetically resembled the extermination of Collo people by your arrogant party in Gar or Wic Rek with Arab killing of southerners during Anya-Nya one. You make everyone on this website to understand that Collo people are being killed because they vote for SPLM-DC. But the truth is that, Arabs are enemy to any southerner. So any Southerner according Arab must be killed so that southern land will be empty to accommodate immigrating northerners. This time according to your writing, SPLM/A and GOSS replaced Arab by killing other southerners and Collo people to give their land to Dinka. Can you deny this? You cannot deny it.
Dr. Naba, if your government is there to protect, it suppose not to kill Collo people especially when you know SPLM-DC has driven them out. SPLM/GOSS as government should protect them rather than punishing civilians. IS IT LOGICAL TO BLAME MILITANT OR BLAME GOVERNMENT? Arab can not do your act in north where their civilians live. But they do it in south because we are their enemy.
Dr. Naba, you are dreaming to divide Collo people into Gar and Luak. But that will never happen at time of this young Collo generation. Do not bring what happen during war. If Dr. Lam Akol did wrong that time, that was that time. We do not look at the past, but we look forward. If Dr. Lam is willing to correct himself, he could be better than anyone. Remember that Saul from Bible was doing wrong, but he changed completely and become better than anyone who did nothing wrong. Also Jesus did picked a woman who had five men because Jesus knew that woman will be better when she came to know the truth. Dr. Lam and Collo people opened a new page after all of them realised the risk to their being. But you are still addicted by events of past.

Dr, Nyaba
Every Chollo fellow for sure got surprised by this article. let us supposed hypothetically that there are some elements of SPLM-DC resisting the alleged disarmament, dose it give the right to official and recognized army forces of the GOSS to kill, loot, and rape the women and girls? What is the different between the government forces who are supposed to be abide by the rules and regulations and militia forces or un-controlled forces?
As one of the dignitaries in the SPLM and a minister for Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research it was expected from you to condemn such atrocities to the entire community of Collo kingdom.

Instead you are justifying the acts of those perpetrators by saying that they should not folder their arms across their chests and wait their slaughter as if the Chollo combatants initiated the attacks
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If the SPLM soldiers are seeking un authorized weapons from the civilians why they raped women and girls and dropped the flaring fire on the children and elder people? Is it part of disarmament methodology used in all parts of southern Sudan? I believed Dr. Nyaba if you were there and witnessed these brutal acts you would have been one of those combatants against SPLM soldiers.

Yes no body is encouraging the civilian to possess weapons which may cause intimidations to other civilians. A controlled plan for disarmament should be put in place prior the implementation and should be simultaneously (one off) with other neighboring communities such as Dinka and other tribes in our case in upper Nile state. If it is done in this way the civilian will believe that their weapons are useless as there is no longer threat on their lives, properties and nobody will dislodge them from their land then I think they will submit their guns willingly.

I believed one of Dr. Nyaba relatives in one way another suffered these brutal acts not necessarily to be in your own village but in one of the affected villages as our families are extended families and Collo in general are related to each other. So please don’t think that Wijrik and Gar are the only areas being tortured, you better call one of your closest relatives in the village to update you whether one of your families has been touched or not.

It seems your mind psychologically dominated by the name of Dr. Lam to the extent that if the Mosquito bit you, you will say it was sent by Dr. to harm you. That is your own problem with him

Please we are expecting a positive role from you to solve the problem rather than fuelling it by such articles. What you are expecting from the Dinkas soldiers when they are reading your article? They will feel of being supported by Collo like you and negatively increase their brutal acts. Because it seems Mr: Jwothab was right when he said in one of his articles that the disarmaments is used as a pretext to punish the entire Collo.

Pigi or Akoko counties decreed by the President of GOSS are not situation in the Chollo Kingdom as far as I know. Pigi was a name adopted by the two dinka section of Luach and paweny when they were reconciled in 2009. The H/Qs of this county is located eighteen kilometres south of the canal mouth. Akoka was establ;ished in 2010 to separate the Dingjol from the Ngok and it is based in Akoka town. The encroachment into the Chollo territory occurred because the county administrations of Panyikango and Pachoda didn't take their duties serious and therefore since 2006 left their territories to be occupied by squatters. The current commissioners should now correct this situation and take their administrations to the areas occupied by squatters.
Indeed the Chollo don't need to fight the Padang Dinka or the government of Southern Sudan over something very obvious. The constitution of Southern Sudan stipulates that the borders of Southern Sudan, the states therein as well as the counties, payams, boma are as they stood on January 1st 1956. If there is any administrative or security laps that involves neighbours it should be resolved within the precincts of the law. The Chollo people through their tradition leader, the reth, who also is the custodian of the land of Nyikango has not beeb given the opportunity to address the issue. It has been the intellectuals and the politicians who have been very loud and obviously for narrow political ends.