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GARANG JOHN'S PRISON DIARY: MY LAST DAY IN THE CELL (SNIPPET OF 8:00 PM, MARCH 16, 2023 IN THE OFFICE OF DG)

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This is the last day of Garang John in the cell and he wrote this dairy vividly remembering what had conspired in the cell. 


"Muordit, you have grown too fat, I think I need to reduce the amount of food that goes into this prison," Gen. Akol Kor Kuch said. 


Gen. Akol Kor Kuch, jokingly hugged Garang John on the night the journalist was ordered to leave the prison and he declined the order that he was not leaving the prison. 


Garang John was embraced the way a father would to his own child at that moment journalist Garang John saw Gen. Akol as a man with a sober mind but the general isn't aware of how rotten the system he is in charge is. 


As Garang John raised his filthy and stinky hands to embrace general Akol, they held each other and the general said that, 


"Garang Johndit my brother, I don't know whether you have encountered this in your generation but back in the days, if an elder suddenly fart in the middle of the people, a child is slapped and the blame is pushed to the child. The child would then ran to the mother crying ... why are you refusing to leave the prison?" Gen. Akol Kool Kuch said. 


Finally, Journalist Garang John said that "This will be continued. It's part of the last day at the national security prison. You will know the Akol Koor Kuc you have never known ..." Garang John said. 

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