Emmanuel Jal - Mr President -(Official Video)

A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

By Emmanuel Jal

New single 18 Aug 2023 148,725 views

Emmanuel Jal feat. Angel Atieno - Mr President -(Official Video)

A letter to the president to bring the attention of their citizens to their mind. 

Artists: Emmanuel Jal feat. Angel Atieno 

Producer: Jesse Bukindu

Video Director: Nezzoh Montana

Actresses: Shammalee, Princess Nyadollar, Monica Awadhia, Alyce Shamala. 

Lyrics 

Intro

ohwa ohwa

A kingdom not united, shall be conquered and divided 

Conquered, divided

Enslaved, exploited 

Support hook

It's Africa Amani 

Let truth take over.

Go leader us go say so

Let truth take over 

Time has come please show so

Prosperity and love be the dose 

- Dose

Ushindi yet Robina

Let truth take over

- 

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over oh

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over

 ---------over -- yoo 

Chorus

Would you step for our nation - Mr President ?

Would you step for education - Mr President?

Would you step up for the farmers, for police and the army?

Would you step for up for the children for women and the veterans - Mr President?

Support hook

It's Africa Amani 

Let truth take over.

Go leader us go say so

Let truth say over 

Time has come please show so

Prosperity and love be the dose

- Dose

Ushindi yet Robina

Let truth take over

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over oh

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over

 ---------over -- yoo

Would you step for education - Mr President?

Verse 1

Nation for the people

For the people by the people

United overcoming, overcoming

Overcoming terror evil

Oh I see little yellow sunrise come

Rain fall oh

Mighty state something so

Mah shallah 

- Mashallah Mashallah I see things grow 

beautiful people letting hate go

beautiful people letting hate go

letting hate go.

- Mashallah Mashallah I see things grow 

beautiful people letting hate go

beautiful people letting hate go

letting hate go.

 

It's Africa Amani 

Let truth take over

Go leader us go say so

Let truth say over 

Time has come please show so

Prosperity and love be the dose 

- Dose

Ushindi yet Robina

Let truth take over

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over oh

Let truth take over

Truth take over

Truth take over

 ---------over -- yoo

Bridge

Tara Tarara tararah

What about your dream Kila Mtu go some

What would you do for the masses 

coz soul feel how does that sound.

Teth loi Teth loi mah diid tethloi 

Teth loi Macho Tethloi 

Teth loi Chuol midiid Teth lois

Translation of bridge - 

Joy joy fullness joy fullness.

Joy for the eye  Joyfullness

Joy big Chuol Joyfullness.

Chorus 

Would you step for up for the teachers - Mr President ?

Step for the nurses  - Mr President?

Would you step up for our freedom and the healthcare betterment?

Would you step for up for the vision and the purpose of our nation?

Bridge

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Source:  YouTube 

SONG

Mr President (Single)

ARTIST

Emmanuel Jal

ALBUM

Mr President

LICENSES

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Sudan: Peter Kiano headmaster of Comboni College Khartoum is reported to have been shot dead

ACCORDING to several posts on social media, Mr Peter Kiono was a very popular teacher, adored by his students. Reportedly, he was killed in crossfire or by a stray bullet. He taught physics and made it fun. I am chronicling his sad death here for posterity. Rest in peace Peter Kiono.

Sad news from Khartoum. Peter Kiano headmaster of Comboni College Khartoum is reported to have been shot dead. He is a South Sudanese.@SouthSudanGov@hiba_morgan pic.twitter.com/DrJ3P85Oh4

— Oryema James OJ (@JamesOryema1) May 19, 2023

Condolences. God bless. Rest in Peace. + + +

South Sudan: Teachers in Juba return to their classrooms after being paid

Good news from SRS - Sudan Radio Service, 15 December 2009:
Teachers End Strike in Juba County

(Juba) – Teachers in Juba county went back to school on Tuesday after being paid their salaries for September and October.

The teachers’ representative, the headmaster of Juba Day Secondary School, the Rev. Daniel Swaka, speaking to Sudan Radio Service on Tuesday, confirmed that the strike had ended:

[Rev. Daniel Swaka]: “The teachers held a meeting and decided that they stop the strike and immediately start classes on the 15th which is today and in fact in the early morning as usual we came to the school and the lessons started normally which is an indication that the strike is already off.”

Teachers in Juba county went on strike in early November in protest against the government whom they accused of withholding salaries for September and October.

Click on tag here below to view previous reports.

South Sudan: Teachers in Juba have refused to return to their classrooms as a protest

From SRS - Sudan Radio Service, 7 December 2009:

[Juba] – A police officer has been wounded and fourteen students have been arrested in Juba during a demonstration in protest at a prolonged teachers’ strike.

Secondary and primary school students exchanged stones for tear gas in a running battle with police along the Juba-Ministries and the Juba-Melekia roads.

Cars were vandalized and motorists were beaten up as traffic came to a standstill at the Mudiria roundabout.

Simon Kalamsakit, a reserve policeman, told SRS that the students will be charged and prosecuted for disturbing the peace.

[Simon Kalamsakit]: “We will charge them for violent behavior, then the judge can release them on bail and then refer the case to the court and the court will decide.”

Teachers in Juba have refused to return to their classrooms as a protest against the non-payment of their October salaries.

South Sudan: Teachers in Central Equatoria on strike

This is the second time in the last six months that the teachers in Central Equatoria state have gone on strike because of non-payment of salaries.

From SRS - Sudan Radio Service, December 2, 2009:

(Juba) – Teachers in Central Equatoria state are continuing their strike action, demanding two months of unpaid wages from the Government of Southern Sudan.

The teachers’ representative, Rev Daniel Swaka, told SRS that the state government had paid them salaries for the month of September and had promised to pay the remaining salaries by October.

However, the state director in the Ministry of Education, David Lowela, said that the government had never promised to pay the teachers in October.

[David Lowela]: “Teachers in other counties have not been paid their salaries for September. We want this salary to be paid to teachers in the remaining five counties. Central Equatoria state has six counties altogether and only teachers in Juba county and in the state education department have been paid. So the minister is urging them to accept their September salaries and wait until teachers in the other counties are paid for the month of September and then the October salary will be given to all the teachers in the state at once.”

This is the second time in the last six months that the teachers in Central Equatoria state have gone on strike because of non-payment of salaries.

South Sudan: Teachers in Juba on strike

Before reading the following report from Sudan Radio Service, note this excerpt from Alex de Waal's blog post at Making Sense of Darfur, November 22, 2009:

I hope that for the sake of the many thousands of Sudanese civil servants who depend on a timely salary payment to be able to celebrate the Eid properly, that the Sudan Government finds a way to pay its bills, in the few days left before the holiday. Equally, it must do so for the sake of the CPA.

And read the full story titled Unhappy Eid for the CPA.
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Report by Sudan Radio Service, Wednesday, November 25, 2009:

(Juba) - Teachers in Juba county in Central Equatoria state are on strike because they haven’t received their salaries for the last two months.

The teachers are demanding that their salaries for September and October 2009 should be paid immediately.

The teachers’ representative, the headmaster of Juba Day Secondary School, Daniel Swaka, told Sudan Radio Service that the government has promised to pay the salaries within a week.

[Swaka Daniel]: “We were requested to go to the ministry yesterday by the director-general of education in Central Equatoria state and he told us that they had started to pay the salaries. It transpired to be one month’s salary which some of us started to receive yesterday and the second salary of October is not out yet. The director-general met the acting governor yesterday and they promised that they will pay the remaining salaries within seven days.”

This is the second time teachers’ salary payments have been delayed in Central Equatoria state since the beginning of the year.

Sudan Radio Service's website is being redesigned and will be back online very soon.

South Sudan: Wau teaching hospital employees protesting about being forced to open bank accounts in order to be paid

Report by Sudan Radio Service, November 23, 2009:

(Wau) - Wau Teaching Hospital employees are protesting about the decision by the GOSS Ministry of Health ordering them to open bank accounts. Employees are now expected to open an account in order to receive their salaries from the government.

The employees say that the two-week notice given by the government was insufficient for them to set up an account.

The Director of Wau Teaching Hospital, Peter Tartizio, spoke to Sudan Radio Service last week.

[Peter Tartizio]: “A letter was given to the director-general of the hospital when he was in Juba for a workshop. He told management about the letter given to him by the Ministry of Health in Juba saying that we should present this order to the employees. Unfortunately, when we introduced this idea to them [employees], they rejected it because the decision was announced so late. Some said their salaries are not enough to be deposited in the bank. Some asked who would be responsible if they didn’t find their money in their account. I told them that I am not the one who came with the idea, so they should forward their complaints to the Ministry of Health.”

When Sudan Radio Service spoke to some of the employees there were mixed reactions to the ministry’s decision.

Langa Peter is a member of staff at Wau teaching Hospital.

[Langa Peter]: “The solution for this case is for the government to give us three months to prepare ourselves. The government can’t just give us such short notice. According to them, the money is supposed to be in the bank in November and we don’t have the proper paperwork for the bank. How will we receive the money from the bank? We are not going to accept that, unless they give us extra money to be able to open our bank account.”

Asha Adam, a nurse at the hospital, said that it is impossible for someone like her, who is earning less than 300 SDG a month, to open a bank account.

[Asha Adam]: “The idea of opening a bank account is wrong; how will we be able to divide our monthly salaries so that some can be deposited into the account, some used for paying rent, some for paying school fees for our children, some to buy food? How will this help us when some of us are earning 280 SDG? The salary we are earning is only enough to buy food in the market; we won’t be able to divide it further.”

Asha Adam was speaking to Sudan Radio Service in Wau last week.

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Civil servants in the Government of Southern Sudan will begin receiving their salaries through bank accounts

Report by Sudan Radio Service, November 24, 2009:

(Nairobi) - Civil servants in the Government of Southern Sudan will begin receiving their salaries through bank accounts from November, 2009.

The GOSS Minister of Labor, Public Service and Human Resource Development, Awut Deng, said her ministry has embarked on an intensive pay-roll “cleansing” operation to reduce government spending.

Awut Deng spoke to Sudan Radio Service in Nairobi on Monday.

[Awut Deng]: “It is true; we will not send out the November salaries in cash since it is now government policy that everybody has to have a bank account. The circular was sent out in October to the effect that November salaries will only be paid via personal bank accounts.”

Awut added that the cost of employees' salaries is greater than the oil revenue which is being used to pay them every month.

She explains that the pay-roll campaign is designed to get rid of unqualified and incompetent workers.

[Awut Deng]: “The pay-roll cleansing is not targeting people who fought during the war. People who are working in southern Sudan did not come from the SPLA only. The pay-roll cleansing is targeting ghost workers. We have people who died a long time ago who are still being paid. You have students who are not in the offices delivering services to the people of southern Sudan but are in the pay-roll and we have children too. It is a policy of the Government of Southern Sudan that we should have a lean, efficient, effective and responsive civil service in southern Sudan now and beyond the interim period. We are talking about 300,000 workers in southern Sudan and we wish to reduce this figure to 100,000.”

Awut concluded that the money recovered from ‘ghost workers’ in Eastern Equatoria state has been used to construct a state-owned hotel. She added that in Western Equatoria state, the governor was able to purchase an FM radio station and road construction equipment as well as sponsoring the education of ten students.

Message to South Sudan's Director General of Education Peter Dak Galuak: All of the East African teachers want to go home but must be paid first

Copy of two emails received today in response to yesterday's report at Sudan Watch entitled South Sudan: State Director for Education denies that 200 unpaid East African teachers in Bentiu want to go home

Dear Jones,

We have read your article from sudanwatch website and the reporting. Now I want to tell you the full story of East African teachers. Since the beginning of this year, paying our salaries has been a problem. We have been paid only four months this year and every time we are paid it is after a serious demonstration. Actually, now it is worse and we are tired of the job because of non payment and intimidation every time we request to be paid. And now all of us want to go home but we have to be paid first.

We are suprised by the statements of the Director General of Education that few people want to go home. They want to politicise an issue that is obvious. In fact, they have never told teachers who want to go home to write down their names and they refused.

The issue is let the government of Unity State pay East African Teachers and let them go home. It's like we are held hostage here. We cannot move without money because we cannot move to Uganda or Kenya on foot.

Please help us to highlight this issue and if you want any more information please email us on eastafricanteachers@yahoo.com

Thanks.

Yours

East African Teachers Representative.
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I also agree with the east africans because on recieving money in August they first demonstrate and when it came to september there are demonstrating again for their five months pay and when i talked to one of them he said that if the government can no longer afford them, then let it lay them off as they suggest. On being paid 2 months they say that its now two weeks ever since the speaker of parliament gave them this promise and the education Minister no longer wants to see them neither does he talk/communicate to them on what is going on. And now there more scared of the security cause some say better they pay them two months with an Air ticket back to their countries.

South Sudan: State Director for Education denies that 200 unpaid East African teachers in Bentiu want to go home

Over two hundred secondary teachers from Kenya and Uganda working in Bentiu, southern Sudan are demanding to be paid salary arrears and are requesting to be taken back to their countries.  

According to the below copied report from Sudan Radio Service, the teachers have stayed five months without getting salaries.  The state government has agreed to pay them two months salary and the rest before the end of the year.

Today, Friday, October 2, someone posted the following comment on Sudan Watch post "UN Jobs - International Job Vacancies in Sudan"

Anonymous said...
How i wish you could intervine the east African teachers' issue /cry who were employed to serve the government in Unity state Bentiu, currently under alot of intimidation cause of fighting for their rights under a theme pay us our five months arears and take us back to our home countries.

Here is a report from Sudan Radio Service - Teachers in Bentiu Want to Go Home  - 25 September 2009: 

(Bentiu) – Over two hundred secondary teachers from East Africa working in Bentiu are demanding to be paid salary arrears and are requesting to be taken back to their countries.

Ann Kosgei is one of the teachers. She spoke to Sudan Radio Service by telephone from Bentiu on Friday.

[Ann Kosgei]: “Yesterday, we went to the Ministry of Education and we told them that the teachers wanted to go home. The reason was that the situation of the teachers now. We stayed five months without getting salaries. As you know, we are East Africans, we are coming from Kenya and Uganda. Here we don’t have anything to eat, we are not given money, we are not given food, we have nothing to eat, so we went to the ministry to take us back to our countries.”

The state Director for Education, Peter Dak Galuak, confirmed that the teachers were demanding their salaries but denied claims that they wanted to return home.

[Peter Dak-Nuer]: “Not all of the teachers want to go back to their countries, it’s just about 30 of them who came yesterday and said that they wanted to go back. But we told them that those who want to go back should write their names, and they refused. I think it’s just a way to threaten us so that they get their way. I talked to them and told them that they should go back to their places and the government is working hard to pay their money, even the state Minister of Local Government, Samuel Lony, talked to them and they listened to him. That is why nobody is coming to the ministry today.”

Dak said that the state government has agreed to pay them two months salary and the rest would be paid to the teachers before the end of the year.