Pigi belongs to Shilluk in Upper Nile not Dinka of Jonglei
By James Okuk
November 15, 2009 — A Dinka reporter in Bor town wrote this misleading statement: “Group of armed men reportedly identified as members of Shilluk tribe from Upper Nile State attacked a Dinka village of Pigi county in the extreme east of Malakal town on Wednesday on the other side of Jonglei.” This is misleading report because Pigi is not and will never be a Dinka village of Jonglei state because it has been and it will always be a Shilluk area according to 1956 administrative territorial maps.
The Canal Area has been known as “Wig Pigi” in Shilluk language; meaning the meeting and mixing place of waters of the White Nile and Sobat River where it looks like a “whirling point – Pigi”. This area has been one of the major fishing points for the Shilluk before the Dinka of Padang in Jonglei state came to discover what a river is and how delicious the fish that are caught there are. Part of what ignited the fight that took place on Wednesday in Canal area (Pigi) was the brutal abuse of a Shilluk fisherman by some Dinka elements in police uniform stationed in a post there. They stopped his boat and tried to take his fish by force without pay. When he protested, they shot him dead at the spot. This evil action sent a sad signal to the Shilluk people in the area.
But the Major General Kuol Diem Kuol, the Spokesman of SPLA ignores the root cause of the fight and instead said shallowly: “A teacher was killed and two policemen and two SPLA were wounded — one seriously.” He added that “Eight attackers were also killed, and from the tribal marks on their heads they were identified as being Shilluk people.”
Yes! Mr. SPLA spokesman, know it from today that the Shilluk people are set to fight and die for their ancestral lands. They are not doing this in hiding but in the open so that it is known worldwide that some wrong Dinka group with the backing from tribalists in the GoSS and SPLA (like yourself and others) have occupied unjustly the Shilluk land of Pigi. Where was your big-mouth when some Dinka attacked Anakdiar last month and three who got killed from the side of attackers were identified with Dinka marks on their faces, and were using AKs-47 from SPLA and GoSS police? Their bodies were brought to Malakal town and buried shamelessly there in the cemetery. Please don’t be bias. Know that you are not SPLA spokesman for Dinka tribe!!!!
The so-called Pigi Commissioner, Santino Riak Athian, says a new brand RPG-7 has being captured and two AKs-47 riffles from the attackers. “There has being campaigns over the internet mobilizing Shilluk to control our areas. We thought these were not true.” Really! So the occupied Shilluk lands are the Dinka areas and the Padang community of Jonglei state thinks it is an easy ride to confiscate Shilluk lands without troubles and mobilization for defense from the owners! What a terrible mistake from this wrong Jonglei state commissioner! Please know it from now (if it has never rung in your senseless head and nerves) that you have been a commissioner of a wrong county!!
It is said a source in Pigi County told the Sudan Tribune by phone Friday that the situation is calm but tense. “You can not guarantee stability at the moment…because when they attacked, they never informed us first.” Look at the stupid Dinka land occupants in the Shilluk Kingdom; they want those whose land they have stolen (through GoSS permission) to inform them that the original owners are unhappy for the injustice done to them and are determined to defend their ancestral rights. They think they can enjoy peace and stability in occupied Shilluk lands. What a false thinking from these wrong Dinka elements!!! Now they are testing bitterness of occupying Shilluk lands; and this shall continue till they pack and go back to their villages in the bush; far from rivers side!
Speaking to reporters on Thursday in Bor Town, Jonglei Governor. Kuol Manyng Juuk argued the GOSS to intervene in calming the situation in Canal Area, which he wrongly claims to be part of his state. But weren’t the same governor who senselessly witnessed the signing of the agreement of confiscating the Shilluk land of Pigi and giving it to the Padang Dinka who have been quarreling and killing themselves because they don’t want to be united in a one Dinka county called Atar? Any way, this call is welcome if it is a sincere call to return the Pigi (Canal area) to their real original owners, the Shilluk of Obango, which is the village of the wife of H.E, Comrade Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba and others in SPLM/A. Otherwise, the Jonglei governor should know that there will never be peace in this area, which his people have wrongly occupied.
Let the Padang Dinka in Jonglei state and their mentors in the GoSS get it pretty well into their dull and senseless heads that the Shilluk people will do whatever they can to defend their land from shameless occupiers. The Shilluk liberators shall never inform the occupants of the Kingdom territory for any eventuality as long as the Dinka don’t pack and go back to their original villages!!!! The Shilluk people may even use tanks and other heavy defense weapons for this noble cause as long as the Dinka elements who have occupied that precious part of Shilluk kingdom don’t go back to their areas in the forests where they use to live in the past without borders problem with the Shilluk fishermen!!!
I think the time of talking with some shameless Dinka from Jonglei state who want to confiscate the Shilluk lands on the West bank of Sobat river is over. It is time to show by action these senseless human creatures in Southern Sudan that they will not enjoy their occupation of Shilluk lands as long as Shilluk people are there alive and kicking.
The Shilluk will treat them like the Jellaba from the North who attempted in the past to occupy the Shilluk lands. Injustice of occupation is still injustice whether it is practiced by a Southern brother or Northern enemy. The brother who occupies his other brother‘s land by force becomes an enemy like any other enemy, even if using government powers like what the GoSS President, Minister of Interior, Minister of SPLA Affairs, Governor of Jonglei and the former Governor of Upper Nile (Gatlwak Deng) did when they witnessed the signing out of part of the historical Shilluk Kingdom to become a wrong county in Jonglei State named Pigi with headquarters in Canal at the confluence of the White Nile and Sobat River. The land is the life; no compromise!!!
Even if some Dinka reporters, journalists, and GoSS or SPLA spokesman say the Piegi (Canal) belongs to Dinka of Jonglei state, the fact on the ground and the Shilluk people themselves are going to teach them lessons until they come back to their proper senses (starting from their Chief in the GoSS) to leave the Shilluk lands to the Shilluk people. Pigi (Canal) will never be a Dinka of Jonglei property even if they bring all the SPLA and police forces from the GoSS with all the heavy weapons to fight the Shilluk over that precious area of Nyikango Kingdom. Heaven will turn into hell and it will be over the Shilluk dead bodies for that Pigi to be occupied by Dinka of Jonglei from the so-called Padang Community.
Let the Dinka Padang in Jonglei state find a compromise to their own differences and quarrels (e.g., of GoSS SPLA George Athor and GoSS Police Gier Chwang) somewhere else not on the Shilluk land. There is no joke over this land issue any more!!! Enough is enough for the injustice being done to the Shilluk by the SPLM-Dinka controlled GoSS and SPLA forces from some wrong Dinka elements. The Shilluk patience is exhausted and nothing is left except actions for the targets.
May God, not human punish the Shilluk if they have gone wrong on the Dinka Padang of Jonglei State in defense of lands of the Shilluk Kingdom. May the spirit of Nyikango be on the side of Shilluk people against some unjust Dinka tribalists who want to displace the original Shilluk inhabitants from their ancestral original villages!! There is no Jellaba or NCP or Khartoum behind this self-defense right; it is the Shilluk people themselves taking their rights by their own hands.
Dr. James Okuk can be reaches at [email protected].
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Pigi belongs to Shilluk in Upper Nile not Dinka of Jonglei
Dr Okuk,
Stop farting about in the public.
Pigi as well known belong to Dinka.
Remember we colonised you and your Shilluk as history have it.
Afterall we can re-name any place and assimilate the inhabitants.
This is what happened between shilluk and Dinka.
The pigi as it is known was a shilluk land but they have been assimilated into the Dinka and do not any longer belong to shilluk.
If you go to pigi as we talk and call the shilluk there by the shilluk name they would term you as a naive betrayer.
Oduck Bol
Pigi belongs to Shilluk in Upper Nile not Dinka of Jonglei
That is consequence of making friendship with animals. We have been telling you that do not give your daughters to them or get marriage from them because we know that they are like dogs who do know their uncls,cousins,nephews and one day you got bit by sons of your daughters.80% percent of those Ater or Pawang and others round there are come from Collo. What you Collo should do, (lam gan o gi thow gan bean). So that you could peace with real animals.We in East here,we keep them away always.
Aduol Liet
Pigi belongs to Shilluk in Upper Nile not Dinka of Jonglei
Mr, James Okuk.
Taking one side to defend your Luo or Shilluk does not mean that, it will solve ongoing conflict between these two Communities in Upper Nile. I challenge you guys to leave your politics a part in this issue, because it will affected those none politicians and none educated in the Community.
As a societies call ourselves Southerners Sudanese, we should find a good ways to united our people and we should also find a good way to resolve our owns problems rather than adding a personal disaster to divide the living Community. I belief Shilluk and Dinka Ngok are all citizens of Southern Sudan and they are all Importants to be treated as they deserve to lived peaceful with each other, but in my emiricicism I knew that, all Luo people either from Uganda,Kenya and Sudan have a history of moving from one Region in Sudan, belief me or not it is true that their origns for all of them was the Bhar al Ghazal Region between River Wau and Tonj that is their orignal land of all Luo, but we also know that, they moved from Bhar Ghazal Region to different directions including Upper Nile, Uganda and Kenya therefore, it will not be a good Idea for Shilluk politicians to claim those areas by arrogantness while the history is telling us that, you were moved from Bhar Ghazal Region to Upper Nile Region however, I like everybody to be treated good unlikely to Nyagatans people.
murlescrewed
Pigi belongs to Shilluk in Upper Nile not Dinka of Jonglei
Keep inciting Shilluk to choose the path of violence and you will be sorry. It is expected in a normal society that educated people would know better than to tell their own tribesmen to attack the Dinka. People know who you are and will one day be made to stand for your seditious activities. Nairobi will not save your neck.
Responsible citizens ought to preach peace and harmony. Above all, it is critically important that people teach their communities to follow laws of the land. If confused shilluk boys take up violence as a way to resolve issues, chances are that you will pay dearly.
Pwad Achob
Pigi belongs to Shilluk in Upper Nile not Dinka of Jonglei
Dear brothers & sisters,
It is very sad that some of our brothers from Dinka tribe have no sense of judgement and fairness even in the way they write.
They are corrupting the south and poisoning it with hatred and uncivilized behaviour. Now, we are loosing the creditability of becoming an independent state.
This way of misbehaviour is childish, stupid and backward and believe me or not, they are going to pay a heavy price.They think that it is enough to carry arms and terrorize innocent villagers who have no fire arms at their disposal but brothers and sisters time has come to face reality.
I do not want to boost about the strength and might of Collo tribe.We are known not only in the south but all over Sudan.We are known as one of the peaceful & friendly tribe in the whole Sudan.
It is very shameful that our people in villages are being killed by SPLA army of southern sudan and not by Dinka villagers who can not confront them face to face.
They have posted our Collo SPLA soldiers to other areas in the south & brought to Malakal,particularly to collo areas, vicious,undiciplined and uncivilized Dinka SPLA soldiers who are terrorizing our population day and night because they carry fire arms.It is pathetic.
The coming war in the south will be different this time.
Collo oyeee,
Nyikango oyee,
Pwad Achob
Pigi belongs to Shilluk in Upper Nile not Dinka of Jonglei
Hi Dinka Boy & Panda Oyee,
You people can say any dirty and nasty things on this web site because it is the way you are brought up where there is no system and dicipline.We are an organise tribe with well established system and kingdom.
We were living in peace all these years with Dinka around Collo areas and prove of this peaceful living is the fact that many of our sisters and daughters are married to Dinka. We are not trouble-makers but articulate and civilized tribe in sudan and south in particular.
We have realised that it is the sons of our sisters and daughters betraying us and killing their uncles.
Time has come to revisit our relationship.It will take time and lifes but it has to happen.We do not have arms now but bear in mind that these arms are not being manufactured in the south or by SPLA soldiers who are killing our citizens.
Your people of padany dinka areas around Collo villagers know very well how capable we are.Face to face without help from SPLA soldiers is out of question that we could be resisted.
We have been honest during the war not to create malitias like other tribes.
Please take care and shot anybody in Nairobi or anywhere and you will also find the same.