01/07/2022
Dear Community,
By Zack Mayul
I might not know much of how you do your things. What I know, of course, to those I stayed with when I was young is that you’re a respected community. You always come in large numbers. You don’t accept defeat and you’re a proud community.
However, there is an alarming situation here: the case of Bior Ajang aka Atorry De Makuith, a renown musician especially among the youth.
Yesterday, I forced myself to leave the house (since I work from home) and drove to Juba Town to do few errands here and there. Near traffic office, I saw Atorry crossing the road. Of course, not in a good shape. Not the creative boy who graduated from Loreto Boys High School, Nakuru some years back. He is really far from it. He was callous, pale and weak.
I know some people from his nuclear family might have tried to change him with no success. I somehow I feel it’s too early to throw up our hands on him. I know South Sudan doesn’t have rehab centers and if they’re there, trenches might be better than them. Kindly try to change the environment (possibly, toch or deep in the village) for him so that he won’t access all those drugs.
If you opt for prison as a form of rehab, he might not stop and not live long enough before he develops some health related issues. Atorry has a chance to live if at all it’s a goal that need to be achieved by everyone around him. This is also to his friends who are in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan and Canada.
