James Gatdet Dak Lampuar
September 20, 2025
Salva Kiir on Monday, September 22, 2025, will make sure that all local, regional and international media outlets are invited to mockingly cover arraignment and parading of H.E. Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, in the kangaroo court in Juba, and the reading of all the politically motivated and fabricated charges against him. This will make Salva Kiir's hateful heart happy, at least temporarily.
But, the Dr. Riek Machar I know will instead pity Salva Kiir, and those who ill-advised Kiir,
for destroying the 'last' peace agreement between them in the country.
The arraignment in the court will also include the 7 other political detainees from Dr. Riek Machar's SPLM-IO Party, namely Cde Puot Kang Chuol, Cde Gabriel Duop Lam, Cde Gatwech Lam Puoch, Cde Camilo Gatmai Kel, Cde Mam Pal Dhuor, Cde Mading Riek Yak, and Cde Dominic Gatgok Riek.
Kiir will not however allow the media to cover the responses of the defense team and the rebutal statement by Dr. Riek Machar. He would not want the public and the world to see how the charges will be challenged and rubbished in his kangaroo court. He will not allow independent media outlets to always cover live the whole court proceedings to the end.
He may only allow the state-owned SSBC to record some of the proceedings and then edit them and broadcast only some clips and statements that would only support the false arguments of the government.
Kiir in the pursuit of the political witch-hunt wants all news headlines, all over the world, to ONLY talk about the serious criminal charges he has levelled against his main political rival, Dr. Riek Machar, as if he captured him in a battlefield.
This is the same reason his political prosecutors last week rushed by prematurely and unprocedurally reading out the trumped-up charges to the gathered media in Juba, instead of waiting to first present them in court.
This is the highest public profile court case ever conducted in the independent South Sudan, which involves the First Vice President who co-birthed the nation through the right of self-determination. The media, like in other countries, should be allowed to broadcast all its deliberations, no matter how many days or weeks or months it will take. Not only the selective opening session on Monday.
But, concealing most of the proceedings from the public view and judgement is what desperate and unpatriotic dictators with low self-esteem do. They are good at throwing mud at other people jealously, and do not want the same mud to be thrown back at them!
However, what they don't realize is that in the end, when they fail and the world finally knows the truth, they would have advertised and elevated the name of Dr. Riek Machar worldwide.
And here is a mystery that might not have come across in Kiir's mind and his group! They maybe unknowingly activating the wrath of God on them by now declaring the "last" peace agreement dead!
They maybe unknowingly setting a very bad precedent and blindly justifying what will also happen to them in the near future!
Let us cautiously wait and see what will happen in the nearest future to that visionless 'dynasty!'
Year 2026 will be a "very different" year all together.
What goes around is about to come around!
We shall overcome it, FINALLY!
The writer is author of a number of booklets, and the longest-serving Press Secretary in the Presidency in South Sudan. His views are personal. He can be reached at: jamesdak2018@gmail.com
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