By Maker M. Marial
![Governor of Lakes State Rin Tueny Mabor. [Photo by Sudans Post]](https://i0.wp.com/www.sudanspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/233157437_10226834013223216_8922111441606265408_n.jpg?resize=850%2C534&quality=89&ssl=1)
Then, there was unexpected decree on May 8th, 2021, for the appointment of Gen. Mabor as Governor of Lakes State. President Kiir had finally decided to save the lives and properties of the people of Lakes State by responding to their overdue demand and appointing the man they had been longing for more than a decade.
“The people of Lakes State have been asking me to be their governor since 2010 but there was no opportunity,” Gen. Mabor told me in the afternoon of May 26, 2019, as we chatted about Lakes State and its many challenges in his house in Juba.
Our good conversation was cut short by the depressing phone call from Rumbek that two of our Ugandan teachers, at Hope and Resurrection Secondary School (HRSS), had just been murdered at Apet, Rumbek East County, on their way back to school after picking up the headmaster Sunday afternoon. I was heartbroken, devastated, and had to rush home not knowing what to do. Presumably, the teachers were killed to avenge the death of a local chief who died that afternoon after he was involved in a car accident with a Kenyan driver in Rumbek town the day before.
I was also to be murdered in the same spot two months later as I visited HRSS and tried to resolve some problem there. I was in the car with 4 prominent people: former state SPLM secretary, State MP, former Director General in the Ministry of Agriculture, and the administrator of the Catholic Diocese when we fell into an ambush of thugs. Fortunately, we were able to know one of the gunmen as they readied themselves to shoot us. He was called by name, and he lowered his AK47 in surprise. His accomplice did the same, and we continued our journey to Rumbek peacefully.
Upon arrival in Rumbek, I reported the incident to the commissioner of the now defunct Amokpiny County, who told me that I could have been the target because of my association with HRSS and the slain teachers. I was astonished and couldn’t believe that somebody wanted me dead for no reason.
Disturbed by the commissioner’s statement, I traced one of the gunmen and asked him about their motive that evening. He cried and apologized for the incident and begged me not to report him to police. We grew up in the same village, and I was his protector from notorious boys. I also lived with him in the same neighborhood in Juba before he moved to Rumbek. Regretting his involvement in a failed murder attempt, he opened up and told me about the identity of the teachers’ murderers and their hiding place. Hearing this, I confirmed the commissioner’s statement and knew that the ambush was not random. I also concluded that the teachers’ killing wasn’t revenge as people thought.
Delivering on his promise
Gen. Mabor arrived in Lakes State and promised the citizens as he toured the state’s 8 counties that his main goal as governor was to “protect people and their property.” This wasn’t an empty promise as his predecessors usually do. He meant what he said. Subsequently, calm returned to Lakes State in less than a month following arrest of the most notorious criminals and voluntarily return of the raided and stolen cattle to their rightful owners.
Last month, my cousin Mading received a phone call from someone who stole his cows in 2015 and was asked to go and collect his cattle from the thief. This is what he had to say:
Last week, I received a phone call from unknown number, and when I picked the call, the caller told me he was the one who stole my two calves in 2015 and he wanted me to go to his village and collect them. It was an exciting news. I went and got my cows back after apologies from the thief and his father. I thank Gen. Mabor for restoring law and order.
There are many success stories like this nowadays in Lakes State. People are getting their stolen cows back and stealing has stopped. This is good news, and it means the state is now governable. Even the police that was not being respected before Gen. Mabor is getting respected these days.
“When you see a policeman coming toward you in Rumbek, you nervously think he is coming for you until he passes-by,” Mading told me from Rumbek. “Debts are being settled outside court, because people fear being taken to police and detained.”
This is now respect to the law and order is coming. Lakes State is now returning to what it was known for. Behavior is changing and peace is coming.
In Guolyar, Awerial County, I met a young boda-boda rider Makuer who had just dropped off his customer after hours of motorcycle ride from Rumbek. This is what he had to say, “There were no guns on the road, and I felt secured and protected. Rumbek is peaceful, Yirol is peaceful and everywhere in Lakes State is peaceful. I now take customers to places where I never went before. Thanks Gen. Rin for restoring law and order.”
On Sunday, October 24, 2021, youth from Rumbek East County organized a thanksgiving ceremony to appreciate Gen. Mabor for restoring peace and stability in Lakes State. Most of the crisis in Lakes State were attributed to the Rumbek East communities and their leaders, who were often blamed for fanning the violence and instability among their community members.
Additionally, Gen. Mabor was awarded prestigious bull Makuen-rial and a calf nyanyar on October 30th by Australia based women group known as Diar Akonbuoi Cipuothmat. He was also nicknamed Makuen Akonbuoi. This was in appreciation for his uncompromised efforts in bringing calm and restoring peace to Lakes State after years of deadly conflicts.
Gen. Mabor is the second governor to be widely accepted by the people Lakes State for doing an outstanding job after his cousin Telar Ring Deng who left a great legacy after his 2010 exceptional performance when he governed Lakes State for 3 months, as an acting governor. Deng was another choice for the governor if Lakes State was given to the SPLM-IO as part of the power sharing deal according to 2018 peace accord.
It is my hope that there will be no interruption in Gen. Mabor’s leadership anytime soon so that he continues to enforce the law and returns Lakes State to where it used to be.
The author of this article is citizen of Lakes State. He can be reached at mmarial787@gmail.com.
Mr. Maker M. Marial,
It is good to hear stories coming out from our people hearts, yes there has been some lawlessness especially in greater Agaar community and specifically Pakam. When I was a little boy, our cattle camp sometimes crossed the Nile from Bor South to Aliab to places like Gak Aroor, Guolyar, Gediang, Wunchoot up to Ciec cattle camps. we just do some wrestling Aliab and no one stole other people cattle goats and sheep and until we later crossed Nile back to Jonglei State. And of greater Yirol and Jonglei have intermarried their boys and girls a lot.
There is no on this planet who will come and fix our South Sudan own problems except South Sudanese boys and girls themselves, As there is this saying in Muonyjiengs/Dinkas ‘thɔn acï rɔt löny ke yin cöl löi (Bull if you can’t unleash yourself the from leach, no one is going to unleash you)’.
All these nonsense of UNMISS are nothing but, are parts of parts of problems in South Sudan. My own humble self was and is anything to do with this United mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) of these Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Rwandans, South Koreans, Abesh (so-called ethiopians) and so on. They were brought here to come implement the so-called UN AGENDa 21, UN NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT, UN GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BORDERS, AFRICAN UNITY AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION——-Or put it simply, a disguised or NEO-COLONIZATION OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES the by US, the UK, France and secret societies and criminals who think, they know better than others.
The most glaring example of dirty and cheap intrigue is Eastern Congo. Maker M. Marial, most of elders are just piece of rubbish, they don’t anything in skulls and so do many our citizenry. The US, the UK, the UN, their cloned so-called Arab North Sudan, some of lackeys here in the IGAD countries and the Africa Union (the AU), their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs and their gulf Arab states financiers are our country and our people existential enemies.
The countries who for UN and UNMISS operations are the gulf Arab states of Saudi Arabia, the UAE Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Japan—–the US, the UK, France and their evil juus (so-called israel) attack dog are considered the protectors of those countries. Mr. Maker M. Marial and I am insider of the ‘cheap and their dirty intrigue being played over our country and over our people, by our so-called allies or uncles.
I am, my family and friends are followed 24/7 for assassination, I killed two white evils here in my state of Jonglei. The whole thing started in Montreal, Canada. Sydney and Australia. Secret societies are very dangerous. They attached themselves to other people and their families, countries like leeches or ticks. However don’t owe them a dime or anything. But so long as you have what they think, they don’t have, they want it from by hook crook or they want you to be parts ‘evil rackets’. But there are some people who just don’t give a damn about white Americans, white English people, their cloned so-called north Sudan, Abeshas (so-called ethiopians) prostitutes, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, some of their Bantuses, their UN, their sleazy NGOs, UNMISS of Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Rwandans, South Korean slitty-eyed evils, Gay, Lesbians, Catholicism, Anglicism, Voodooism, Islamism, Presbyterianisms, Hinduism, Shamanism. Judaism at el.
Maker M. Marial,
We our South Sudanese low lives, to never ever brings *anything connected evil white Americans, evil English people, their cloned so-called Arabs of North Sudan, Abeshas (ethiopian) prostitutes, some of their Bantuses, the gulf Arab states, the UN, their sleazy NGOs or UNMISS of Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs and all in name of ‘rebuilding South Sudan’ just like in 2005. And that South Sudanese would be as good as dead. Reasons, pure deep HATRED and RACISM. Would want to lives side by side with vermins/parasites/viruses? No one, the vermins/parasites/viruses affairs with our country and our people has gone too far, and they are to blitz to ‘near extinction and oblivion’.
Reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.
Mr. Maker M. Marial,
Mr. Riek Machar is dead long time ago, he was a secret society and a foreign puppets/stooges and a traitor.
Former president Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, he as some relation with South Sudanese people, but a dangerous secret society criminals, Susan Rice, former US ambassador to UNSC, who even married, an English low life. The people we HATE TO DEATH. Here what she told South Sudan after 15/12/2013 regime change of then Mr. Salva Kiir government and then be replaced with a puppet/stooge government of Mr. Riek Machar, Rebecca Nyandeng, Majak Agoot, Pagan Amuom, Uyai Deng Ajak and UN NEW WORLD GOVERNMENT failed spectacularly in Juba: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjUlvn6rJP0AhW8IbcAHTD6CJEQFnoECAUQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyamile.co%2F2015%2F07%2F23%2Flaws-in-white-house-are-not-applicable-everywhere-susan-rice-must-know-this%2F&usg=AOvVaw2yYInWOa7t4acQqDciQv40
When we tell our lowly informed South Sudanese people that to be love by *a Satans and the greatest monster on this planet earth doesn’t make you a God’s chosen people* In fact we have destroyed the mighty US, the UK, their, their cloned so-called Arabs of North Sudan, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, their damned UN, most of their Bantuses, Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Catholicism, where pope Francis, a piece of trash or then Argentina scrounger, where Ms. queen Elizabeth of the devil infested Island? Where is Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, where is Benjamin Netanyahu, from evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dog, where Mr. Ban Ki Moon? Where are ancient Egyptian chap,
Mighty isn’t going to survive our bombing, Suez Canal will closed by Me. Saudi Arabia, some parts of Abesh (so-called ethiopia) prostiute, Djibouti, the French legions and US army bases in Djibouti will bombed back to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, with the land they evils are currently living on, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.
Laikipia, Nanyuki, Nyauhuru, Nyere, Nairobi and all the piece of trashes anything to do with a Bantuses, evil juus (so-clled israelis) of ‘kenol and Kobils’ Guru Nanak Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, English people, white Americans, United nations Environment programs (UNEP) in Gir Giri, Muthaiga suburbs will be destroyed. Reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM. Follow South Sudan and the Sudanese people.
Look for a place to hide low lives. We are not your equals never have and will never will under or even in million years. Reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM. The Nile waters were are not going to sharing with our enemies. We informed people be we bomb them, because we know the reasons why>>>>
Thanks Gol Bol for your comment. You’re right. South Sudanese are capable of resolving their own problems. We have leaders among us, but, because they aren’t given opportunity, they can’t be help rescue the situation.