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On September, 10, 2012 while preparing myself for the meeting to take place on the following day, with Pan-African Parliamentarians visiting South Sudan on-facts-finding mission on the post-secession issues between the two Sudans, a friend of mine rang me to inform me of an article written in the New Times Weekly Newspaper, by Mr. Mading de Yak Choldit in response to my earlier article in respect of Mabior de Mabior’s controversial interview with the American McClatchy Newspaper on the August 31st, 2012. I am not a usual reader of the New Times Weekly – I just buy it when it is necessary in the circumstances. In one, the New Times editorial team and the management’s addresses/contacts are nowhere to be seen in the paper. In another, as the laws which govern the intellectual property and ethics of writings are concerned, reading a newspaper whose management, where it is published, who to contact in case of queries, etc is not revealed is a waste of time. I don’t know how the New Times has arrived at calling itself as “South Sudan’s Leading Independent Newspaper? What is expected to make a given newspaper, leading in South Sudan? Writings or colors? I must learn on how to ignore any writings that are not reflective of the required standards and ethics of writings, next time, I promise.
However, in that article, and as usual Mr. Mading de Yak had demonstrated his absurd ignorance of the whole political situation of the world and of this country. Perhaps Mr. Mading might have been willing to be educated, or he wants the public to buy shares of his ignorance.  He referred to our great iconic leader the late Dr John Garang as “Monybaai” Dinka combined words ‘Mony’ which means husband and ‘baai’ which means the ‘house’ or country.  Joining the two words together will read as ‘Monybaai’ which carries the meaning of the husband of the house or a country’. The husband of the house would be okay if, the wife refers to her husband as such, but the husband of the country is a new terminology, and I will never buy it. If this is how Mading is seeing Dr. John Garang, I am afraid he is unmaking the late Dr John’s accumulated popularity. As leaders are politically-immortal since their legacies are set to remain forever, a given misrepresentation of facts by either a member of a given politician’s family or a community may serve to tarnish the image of that politician. For me, Dr. John was a father and a leader of the liberation Movement, the icon, the most charismatic leader who ever lived in Sudan modern history, a father to his children, and a husband to his wife. Notwithstanding, he was not a husband of even Mr. Mading de Yak’s country. Correct political references such as, the father or the mother of the nation; or founder of the movement etc may sound more political than the husband of the county. Such words have never been used before, even in the countries of toys.  As, Dr. John has once said “Nation-States has no religion and so it does not go to Church or Mosques” why did Mading think countries should have husbands or wives? I wish someone is to advise Mading de Yak to stop writing for the sake of writing? Ignorance is one’s own problem – and so it is absurd to pass it to the readers. Dr. Garang was from Bor, and I don’t know why did Mading miss this basic information. He referred to Dr. John as the leader of South Sudan Liberation Movement that signed 1972 Addis Accord. Does Mading want me to believe this? Mr. Mading has also alleged that the late Dr. Garang’s son Mabior was trying to urge the government to stop rampant corruption’. Nonetheless, I believe this statement as also a missing link. Mabior is not the right person to talk of corruption, I know the reason and Mading also knows why.   
Another absurd quote from Mading reads as “Mabior did not say he had wanted to be the next president in his father’s republic”. If, I can really read something written in English language, and had the ability to understand it, then I had realized Mr. Mading is pushing the family of our great leader into disrepute and eventually into abyss of bewilderment. The Republic of South Sudan is not Mabior’s father republic as Mr. Mading had wanted me to believe.  I don’t understand why Mr. Mading who is in love with references of calling himself as a ‘commentator of political and social issues; and also had authored a book which is now on sale at Juba International Airport could be this disgusting thinker? I bet, he should at least inform himself for the sake of the sales of his books. In case, he continues to demonstrate his dwarf political mind, I bet many people would regret reading his books – for fear of being infected by ignorance pandemic.      
Mr. Mading’s article was one amongst the worse articles I have ever read since when I became able to read in foreign languages. Although in Mading’s article my name has appeared several times, its usage was by no means connected to what was supposedly a response of mine in regard to the recently published interview of the late Dr. John’s elder son. Instead Mading might have thought he had now found a chance to direct at me, his own complaints in regards to certain state of affairs. His article was complaining ‘inter alia, the death of his father in Abyei; the death of Cdr. Majok Mach Aluong and the whereabouts of his children; the promotions of some officers who had only been in the army for just ten years, but rose to the ranks of Lt. Generals; and too many other chain of unconnected events.
Conversely, Mading had also cited some other irrelevant examples; the rewards allotted to the sons of Kenya and Ugandan’s founding fathers – and then asked if the reward which is supposed to be given to the family of the late Dr. John Garang was going to be the advisory position given to Madam Nyandeng, while she was already being demoted? However, I don’t blame Mr. Mading for having done so. I think he needed answers to his problems from someone else. I may also be in need of some rewards for my family and me in case such rewards become available. But, I don’t know who owns South Sudan who has the will of giving such rewards to the families of more than 2 million lives lost during the war of liberation? I need to know, if someone could help me and Mading de Yak in this? I am cognizant that the Bor community is amongst the best communities that command some of the best minds in South Sudan, but I don’t know why no one is helping Mr. Mading de Yak to correct his views? Is he (Mading) not going outside the normal practice norms yet? Why is he going astray?  Again, Kenya and Uganda are two different countries than South Sudan, so I don’t know, if the appointments of the sons of the Uganda and Kenya’s founding fathers as ministers in their respective governments were being rewarded or the fact was on the basis of meritocracy. It is a matter for Kenyans and Ugandans. I don’t believe on the appointments done on rewards, simply because it brings the wrong person into the right job –period.      
Again, while unaware of how Mading’s father has died, there remains a missing link as to why he is directing it at me? I knew it is not Mading’s father alone that has died miserably; there are lots of other similar cases pending for one or more other reasons.  But Mading can get right answers on the death of his father – since majority of Lt. Generals come from his own community. My article in respect of Mabior de Mabior’s statement was specific to that event – and therefore, it must be considered as such. I was not assuming the role of South Sudan’s father to warrant receiving any nonsensical responses from anybody. Mr. Mading’s assumption may be ‘exceedingly repugnant to the norms of writings’. It is not anything that pop-up in one’s mind that should be jotted down even when it is not relevant to the subject being discussed. For example; Mading’s statement on some of the leaders who came to power by chances of the death of their predecessors – was an example misplaced. The coming into power of the following presidents after the death of their predecessors; the Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, the Ghanaian president John Mahama, the Malawian president Joyce Banda; and finally the Ethiopian Premier Haile Mariam Desalegn, was how God had wanted them to be – and I hope Mading takes note of this. Unlike Mr. Mading, I don’t call the above presidents ‘opportunists’ since the death of their predecessors was due to natural causes. Like the laws of nations always, spelt out clearly ‘the right of every citizen to become the president of his/her country’ without subscribing to how anyone willing becomes the president – it is expected God is the regulator. Anyone whose destiny God has not written to become president one time, will never become no matter what. So, the above presidents are not opportunists, but God had them in those positions. Conversely, it is said “one man’s meat may be another man’s poison”. Things don’t become good for all men at the same time. As people may go to schools in order to be leaders of some kind, it is not automatic they become presidents no matter how educated they may be.
Finally, as I had only scanned Mr. Mading’s article in order to find something worth my response, I found that he had accused me for being stranger in the history of the SPLM/A. Like the Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe giving warning to President Museveni of Uganda to stop meddling in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe according to Mading’s article, he asked me to take my hand-off the affairs of the SPLM/A because I knew nothing about it. He also connected my lack of knowledge in respect of the history of the SPLM/A with my stay in Khartoum before I could leave for USA – also according to him. I also don’t blame him, but I still think Mading needs some help. With the invention of technology people can become experts of the areas they had never paid a single visit before. Staying in Khartoum should not be considered a problem since most of the SPLM/A leaders today were trained and have lived in Khartoum before forming or joining the SPLM/A. Only the timing of each departure may vary.
Moreover, Colonel Dr. John was in Khartoum before joining rebellion in 1983, Major Kerubino Kuanyien rebelled from Bor on 16th May 1983 – the true owner of that date, Major William Nyuon from Ayod, Benjamin Bol Akok from London, Captain Salva Kiir joined the rebellion together with Lt. Alfred Ajuong Makuer from Malakal, Major Arok Thon from Khartoum, and finally Major Kawac Mekuei Mayar from Aweil, just to mention few. So, it wasn’t where one has joined the movement from, but how committed? Were others commitments stolen etc.? Yes, I was in Khartoum up to 1992, but I did not go to USA, I have joined the SPLM/A before going to Kenya, Zimbabwe and finally to United Kingdom. I wish Mading is to check his knowledge of the world geography to find that USA is not synonymous with UK? Yet, I was an uninterrupted SPLM’s member from 1993 to after independence in 2011, before I decided to revert back to civil society, where my voice is being heard clearly than when I was being hidden beneath some opportunist SPLM small kings.
In conclusion, whilst I accept Mr. Mading to be entitled to praise or demean anyone, I have no any say on how were both Cde. Akol Paul Kordit and Cde.Yien Mathew had served as the Khartoum’s SPLM/A? I am just using the word ‘comrades’ here not on the belief, but simply because members of the SPLM loves to be referred as such. I had no records of how on earth could anyone be expected to be SPLM/A while in Khartoum during the war? But, I am sure I had never worked with the NCP whether as the believer of the ‘Ingaz’ Arabic for ‘Salvation’ (the banner used by the NCP when they seized power in Khartoum on June 30th, 1989), or as spy for the SPLM even for a single moment. I was an SPLM in my heart since 1983, and a physical member since 1993. However, because the Post-war SPLM party’s politics had some of the most terrible ignorant and opportunists such as Mading de Yak’ whose geography of heroism doesn’t cross an inch beyond the boundary of their local homelands, who are also thinking they should have everyone’ records on nationalism written in their books before believing one’s own contributions, I decided to pause politicking for civil society. Leaving party politics for civil society is the best, if we must work to avoid political prostitution in fluctuating between various political parties that do not necessarily differ in vision, but in opportunities.

Source: http://www.thecitizen.info/opinion/who-is-interested-to-be-lectured-by-dwarf/