Self-centred men who married 50 (fifty) wives are the ones fuelling South
Sudan’s conflict

Kiir (right), with the SPLA Chief of General Staff Paul Malong (left).
Photo credit: File/radiotamazuj.org

By Gatwech Deng Wal

*June 4, 2015 (SSNA) --* Corruptions and crimes such as bribery,
embezzlement, nepotism and war plus many more are caused by leaders who
have married fifty wives or multi-marriages. Chief of General Staff, Paul
Malong Awan and President, Salva Kiir Mayardit are in that circle.

There is no doubt that Paul Malong Awan and Salva Kiir Mayardit are the
ones fuelling South Sudan’s conflict. Under their leadership, South Sudan
will forever remain divided and thus country instability will never come to
an end. This is because their main aim is to feed their families and
children, not thinking of the country and its people.

South Sudan’s conflict is not between Nuer and Dinka tribes, it is between
interests. Interests of those who wanted to live under chaos, corruptions
and oppression leadership and those who want to bring the change of
stability, peace and fair justice in the country.

Paul Malong Awan and Salva Kiir Mayardit recruited, trained and equipped
their tribal men, that is, Mathiang Anyoors and Gelwengs under the guise of
protecting Dinkan’s interest against other South Sudanese tribes. This was
not the purpose; however, it was a plan to protect their wealth. Mathiang
Anyoors and Gelwengs are innocents. They were misled and deceived with
unfolded purpose. Therefore, even if criminal justice needs to be served
today, they cannot be guilty or be charged with anything but instrumental
offences and accessories. The conflict causers, transgressors and real
serial killers are Paul Malong Awan and Salva Kiir Mayardit.

The main concerns of Paul Malong Awan and Salva Kiir Mayardit are their
wives and children. They stressed and depressed with their families’
responsibilities, thus, their staying in the leadership is not the aim of
leading people but it is the question they always ask themselves with- “who
will feed our fifty wives and hundreds of children once we stepped down
from the leadership”! Without their families pressure on them, peace should
come into place in a minute. This pressure of their families’ feedings will
not let the two leaders practice patriotic country’s leadership, rather
than pushing down, destroying and leading country and its people on the
verge of collapse.

Although international communities such as UK, USA and Norway and the
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) countries have wasted
their times and resources in order to bring peace in South Sudan, I doubt
that peace will prevail, however, unless some wives from Paul Malong Awan
and Salva Kiir Mayardit are being divorced.

I felt that what triggered conflict and prevent peace to come in South
Sudan are those who have fifty wives or multi-marriages. But what they do
not know is that South Sudan is bigger than their families. Even if someone
wished death to their families and it happens, South Sudan should still
exist. And South Sudan should not be a country if all 64 (sixty-four)
tribes perished.

South Sudan is rich in terms of resources – only good management needed
from those who call themselves leaders. If its resources are well managed,
then the cumbersome situation South Sudanese are now facing should not be
in place and everyone can get something little. And those who wanted to
destroy the country for their families’ benefits would still survive and
live a good life.

*The author lives in Australia and he can be reached at
[email protected] <[email protected]> *.

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