A man went to the forest. Reaching in the forest, he got a skull. He was very curious to know what killed the body of the skull. But he had no one to ask.
He finally concluded that he must ask the skull. “What killed your body this stupid skull?” he asked. “This red tongue killed me young man,” said the skull. The young man had to argue with the skull denying that the tongue could not kill the body. “Young man, the tongue you will kill you one day,” the skull said to the young man.
The young man went home and narrated the story to his friends. His friends denied and called him a liar. They could not believe a dead head could talk. But the young man could not give up arguing since he knew he had talked with a skull. They argued and argued.
To end their argument, the young man told his friends to go to where the skull was. They agreed that he would be killed if the skull would not talk. The young man was very confident and had no fear taking the men to the forest. The friends concluded that they would kill the young man. They knew very well that no skull without life in it could talk. They all left to the forest.
After a very tireless walk for many hours, they reached and got the skull. The young man started to tell the story to the skull and asked the skull to talk. The skull failed to talk. He tried many times begging the skull to talk, but the skull never spoke anything. He tried all ways to make the skull speak but all was in vain.
When the skull failed to talk, the young man was speared on the head. The friends refused to forgive him since he wasted their time for a lie. They beat him. When he was to breathe his last breath, the skull started to talk. “I told you that your tongue will take you to the grave,” said the skull. There he died and the friends left.
Human tongue is a member of human head. It kills. Many useless wars are fought due to the influence of the tongue. South Sudan’s problem is the misuse of the tongue. Propagandas are numberless on social media. These lies keep provoking the innocent people to fight. You can never tell who can tell the truth. If you listen to government speakers, the truth is what favours them. If you listen to IO speakers, the truth is what favours them. If you listen to other opposing groups, the truth is what does not oppose them.
Telling lies and propagandas is enjoyed and celebrated. If one supports the president, he/she writes that the president is an angel. If one supports Dr Riek Machar, he/she writes that Dr Machar is an angel. If I want to find the truth, where will I get the truth? I surely have nowhere to turn to. It seems everyone is fighting for the interest. It seems we have sold out the truth for food.
The government says it is IO being our problem. The IO in the other side says it is the government. Who can tell the truth? It is wisdom to accept that you are wrong. There is no peace where no one accepts the responsibility for the nation’s mess. Devil can be called the son of God if he accepts that he is wrong. Let’s take responsibility to heal the nation.
A mad man got a new born child. The mother left for a moment to bring some water. The mad man slaughtered the baby. The mother came and got a dead baby. It is only a mad man to slaughter a young child.
The nation can be falling because the decisions we make. The mad man above slaughtered the baby because he lost his mind. We destroy the nation when we lost our minds. A sound mind will always be considerate. If we are not mad, we should not cause war. If we are in our right minds, we can be inclusive in decision –making. If we have sound mind, we cannot support tribal war. We can decide for the welfare of the nation. South Sudan is not one person who is okay. South Sudan is its citizens who need care and protection.
There lived a blind man. The blind man was a witch. With his powers, he set on fire his village. His jealousy was that he could not see the beauty of the village. He destroyed the village.
Human eyes are great symbol of vision. If we see the nation with compassionate eyes, we cannot watch the nation getting into war. It means we are like the blind man. We conclude that we are blind, so we must bewitch the nation to have nation no more. We should admire the beauty of this nation. We should see with eyes full of love. We should see the beauty of living as brothers and sisters. God will regret giving us eyes if we don’t use them to serve the nation.
Absalom was a man born deaf. One time he got annoyed with his friends. He ran to his gun and started shooting. His friends ran to a certain location. His family members including his mother and father were in that location. People could call him warning him that he would kill his family members if he continued shooting the friends who ran to their locations. But the man could not hear anything. He thought people were telling him to continue shooting his friends. Finally, he killed his friends and his family members. When the drama was over, the deaf man regretted and cursed what caused his deafness.
We would save the nation if we truly have ears to listen to the cry of the nation. It is because we are deaf that we celebrate the news of the war. When government soldiers are killed, IO or white army celebrate. When IO soldiers or white army are killed, the government celebrate. This news won’t take the nation anywhere. We should put our ears to hear news of peace. We should celebrate great news of development. We should celebrate news of prosperity. We should celebrate great news of unity. If we turn to be like the deaf man, remember the deaf man killed his friends and his family members. We have ears for good news.
An old man lived with his family. One day, he came up with a law. The law was to make his family eat with one mouth. The food was brought. He told his wife and children to line up behind him. He would put the food in his mouth and asked his wife and children if they had received. They would blindly accept that they had received. We should stop eating with one mouth in our nation.
Life is in the human head. There are five senses in human beings. Four of these senses are located in the head. We have the sense of sight, taste, hearing, and smelling. This means human head is very important. If the head is dead, the whole body is dead. If a person does not see, hear, smell, such a person is considered abnormal. The head is the determiner of life or death.
Who is the head? The head is not the brain, eyes, ears, mouth, tongue, nose alone. The head is all those elements. Literally we think the head is the brain alone.
So, when we talk about the head, we are not talking about the president alone. We mean those five important people tasked for running the nation. President cannot do anything good alone. It is only an effective team that can run the country well. The nation is falling because everything is left to one element in the head. Imagine the head is left to human eyes alone and the rest of the elements are head, do you think there will be better life? I don’t believe there will! Inclusivity brings success to the body.
Throughout history, many countries or empires have collapsed, and often their downfall was closely tied to their leaders; either through poor decisions, corruption, tyranny or failure to adapt.
Adolf hitler’s aggressive expansionism, genocide policies and refusal to surrender led to total devastation of Nazi Germany in 1945 by the end of World war II.
Louis XVI of the Kingdom of France brought the fall of France in 1789-1792 due to his indecision, financial mismanagement, and his detachment from the people’s needs. These fuelled revolutionary sentiment.
What about the recent of fall of Irag in 2003? Saddam Hussein’s brutal dictatorship, wars with Iran and Kuwait, WMD allegations led to international intervention. His aggressive policies and defiance of global norms isolated Iraq and invited war.
The role of the head in governance is very significant. It is the head determining good or bad leadership. With dead head, you have dead body. With living head, you have living body. Be kind to the nation.