Opinion | 30 grave mistakes ending Riek Machar 30 years misrule since August 28, 1991

By Deng Vanang

OPINION –  1^st Lt. General Simon Gatwech Dual Hoth today morning 7th of August 2021 made history in ending Riek Machar’s unprecedented 30 years’ crisis management, with each passing year having its own grave mistake turning into a major humanitarian crisis.

The feat so remarkable is not only for the good of long suffering Nuer in particular and South Sudanese in general, but also humanity at large in grave crisis globally caused in part by Dr. Riek Machar who is many things in one, a contradiction of sorts.

Put together he is an acclaimed Ngundeng incarnate, high priest of Christ Temple, Nuer leopard skin chief, Paramount chief, Head chief, sub-chief and all what government symbolizes in every village he finds himself.

Quite a predictable man he is whose predictability, though routine, is way off the mark to nail.

Once a herd boy who went to study as far as the United Kingdom and returned as King to Nuer organized anarchy than people’s servant leader.

He espoused values of democratic governance, while secretly cherishing and openly practicing dictatorial tendencies, unilaterally abolishing secularism as he merges State and religion into himself as both political leader and High Priest of Christiandom and Ngundeng prophecy.

His unsuspecting audience statically fall off under his famous trademark of bewitching gap-toothed, but vain and deceptive smile.

He chats and laughs his heart out loud and long at a time many think he should be in his lowest of spirit ever as things fall apart around him like a knocked pile of dominoes.

The author of Emma’s war, Deborah Scroggins in her book on Machar’s late British born wife, Emma Mccune {Machar} describes him as a handsome hunk who laughs with you while plotting your end at the same time.

He treats with suspicion intellectuals he always deals with at considerable yard away as he brings closer those he deems intellectually challenged for maximum command and control in his usual use and dump leadership style.

He recruits civil defense mobs he knows can do his bidding at a summoning light cough who neither hold him accountable for his series of administrative abominations nor his systemic failures, while he similarly disperses members of regular armed forces into an oblivion where they rather mind their own business as they fend for themselves into hopelessness.

More competent and efficient when executing his superior’s orders, but literally assumes a know it all personality who miserably falls short of governing his own system.

He rises to his feet and stretches out his hands in a public relation stunt when greeting lowly members of society as only and proudly social equalizer and do-gooder type of a leader among his peers and perceived competitors.

He takes responsibility for the success his juniors score, while swiftly disowning acts going contrary to his interest.

A typical Mechavelian, he is a low lying forx when cornered, while pouncing on his enemy like a lion when strong.

In his success or failure, he sheds off those he is in long struggle with for a complete set of new faces destined to be blindly loyal to him given the unqualified favor he extends.

In 30 years or so he has been both at odds with external and internal adversaries, Riek Machar always wriggles off the hook of numerous transgressions against being caught red handed despite lording it over everyone, friends and foes, near and far.

He is today on a 30-year old political roller-coaster ride again rattling long suffering friends and foes from within IO’s troubled Magenis who are now flying high on heels with the following litany of charges to an enraged court of Nuer public opinion he obviously denies:

1- He claims to be a democrat, while he makes appointments without consulting his deputy chairman and military Chief of General Staff.

2- When in public he is convinced against a decision he wants to make, but always finds a way out to overturn the popular opinion to suit his personal vested interest.

3- He is friendly with the weak, while seeing those capable of helping him as a threat.

4- His influential appointments are skewed to favor blood relatives, yet he views himself as a freedom and justice crusader in the country for the last 30 years.

5- His inner circle is nothing but clan homestead looking down on and insubordinating everyone and even their seniors not of their own clan.

6- When being chased away from the dinner table by fellow comrade in power, he runs to safe haven in Jikany and Lou lands, but returns to his homeboys and girls without a word of thanks now that he has a share of the national cake he was previously denied.

7- In war time other Nuer clans’ members give up their lives so that he lives to rule and provide for all, but gives fruits of peace to members of his own clan.

8- He claims to build a peaceful-prosperous country when given the opportunity to lead, yet he hates the educated class to help him build the kind of a country he envisions.

9- He has usurped 30 years of generational leadership which would have been enjoyed by more than three leaders if he truly believes in the term limit as democracy envisages.

10- He admonishes and cries when the Nuer kill opponents threatening to kill them and him, while unconcerned when Nuer are being slaughtered.

11- He says he can not secure guns for Nuer they will use to kill others, while he is now outsourcing weapons of mass destruction to finish the Nuer who question his eligibility to continue ruling.

12- He advises the Nuer to bear with hunger and keep peace while he is eating, but when he runs short of food, he rallies the Nuer to rebel and trash peace now that he is hungry himself.

13- He says his boss has failed when the same boss delegates most of his powers to him to change things the way he himself wants them changed for the better.

14- He wants Nuer to save him from the enemy at higher cost of human lives, but he later gives himself up to the enemy at will after a lot of death and material destruction.

15- He drives a wedge between the Nuer and Dinka by joining one camp against the other when it suits him most.

16- He falsely claims to fight and defeat a well armed opponent by just sitting under the tree until the enemy returns to haunt everyone dead or alive.

17- He is always willing to give up leadership to others and denies his people the same with a lot of blood to shed.

18- He tells clan youths to go to school, while mobilizing other Nuer youths to die for him and his clan.

19- The same position of Vice President he said in 2013 couldn’t be the reason for Nuer to die, he is today killing the Nuer to protect it.

20- His envious attempts to snatch dictatorial powers from John Garang and Salva Kiir he himself wants to enjoy under the pretext of fighting for democracy and good governance are tantamount to misleading people to their death without cause.

21- He deceives people to democratically contest positions in his many movements, but ends up to appoint defeated candidates in place of those popularly elected by their constituencies.

22- Fearing free and fair competition, he undermined and dropped into depression and subsequent death elder politicians he replaced with his errant toddlers.

23- He allowed the Nuer to be defeated, isolated and disrespected, resulting in disorganization and lack of confidence in themselves in relation with fellow South Sudanese.

24- He is a known corrupt, morally depraved public intellectual who destroys without blinking an eye his dependents in trust he supposes to help.

25- He rather fixes in than appoints people to positions of leadership he himself remotely controls and runs.

26- He brags about being democratic when he has been governing people for more than 30 years through blood and iron.

27- In his failure he incites communities he lives with into fighting themselves in order to divert their attention from discussing his failed leadership for an alternative new leader.

28- When Machar sees in someone an organized and potentially capable leader, he secretly sends him social terrorists to provoke and call him unflattering names to achieve two selfish desires: to make him unwanted person in public life and scare him away into an oblivion.

29- He destroys the Nuers to enrich himself and his immediate family with innocent blood of their children without pay back of a single cent nor building a facility worth a basic primary school, healthcare centre and name it when he was presiding over multi-million dolar Vice Presidency for eight years.

30- For the first time in history the Nuers have been subjected to harrowing humiliation, alien begging culture and genocidal waves under his leadership.

NOTE: This is a revised edition of 26 reasons Riek Machar is declared Nuer public enemy from within punishable with treason

Deng Vanang, UDRM/A’S Secretary-General and Member of SSOMA’s Leadership Council an can be reached via: dvanang@gmail.com.

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