July 16, 2019 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s information minister, Micheal Makuey Lueth, said that those who claim the young nation is not a happy country should hang themselves.
Micheal Makuey outburst came weeks after a report published in many media outlets said South Sudan is one of the least happy countries in Africa.
In a July 11, 2019 Tweet, the information minister says people who believe South Sudan is not a happy nation should hang themselves. Micheal also claimed that the war-wracked nation has enough trees to handle the number of people who he wants to hang themselves.
“Who said that we are not happy?” Micheal asks.
“For those who are not happy, the simple way is to hang yourself. There are too many trees in South Sudan,” he says.
His message seems to catch the attention of some South Sudanese prominent writers and bloggers with some labeling the minister as “mad man.” The message also infuriated many people on social media.
“This is a message from a mad man, not a message from a national minister. This man is clearly suffering from 1983-2005 wartime trauma,” Duop Chak Wuol, the editor-in-chief of the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) wrote on his Facebook wall.
Duop’s post seems to suggest that Micheal Makuey is suffering from the trauma of the 1983-2005 war between then Southern Sudan and Khartoum’s government.
Micheal is known for saying things that sometimes infuriated people. Days after civil war broke out in December 2013, the minister asked all media outlets not to interview any rebel or people associated with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO).
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Dictatorship in progress
I am a war born veteran of Sudan now known as South Sudan…what I learn from our leaders is lack of wisdom and knowledge. May God have mercy on us. I am only waiting for dem to die one by one till the young generation of the current takes over.
I’m not happy at all, cause what I’m feeling is that South Sudan will and never be in peace until we speak in one lauguag believe me, fuck all the leaders of South Sudan, cause they sent their families out side the country to stay happy and in peace and the fucked leaders are saying that we are happy, yeah they have right to say that we are happy cause every day civilian been killed, they have to be happy cause they have no one dying in South
I think in this sense the Minister is not well logic to say such a thing. This mean he can’t give an advice which might benefit the nation. This why education is key in leadership because it would to correct bad things In most professional way!
Mr Minister has mental illness
If its a good commands to tell the citizen of your country to hang them self due to internal conflict created by you ( politician ) the world will see you and save the life of innocent citizen.
I DON’T BLAME YOU BUT THE ENVIRONMENT YOU GROW IN.FOOLISH MAN information minister.
This is very emotional and immatured message to the whole displaced and stabilized people of South sudan
Stupid man, think about s.sudan refugees in kenya, uganda n other parts of the world. Use your head mr. Makuey.
People who speak street language are unfit for public office.
minister is mad but he is not mad to president who appointed him as a minister. By the way Makwei is a good man and very emotional, I think he said , what Jenk Council of elders are planning for it, to force people to hang themselves because of no salaries and killing of innocent people and displacement. there is one thing I want to tell the rulers of this nation that they do not have room in South Sudan in future.
It is utterly unaccountable behaviour to suggest such a thing to the public…
That tree that was mentioned should be a fruitful tree, whereby individual can help themselves rather than what the minister has articulated…
I really don’t like this M**f**ka , that’s the most Stupid thing that I ever happened to us since independence 🙄🙄
The best leaders have died remain only those idiots