The enemies of South Sudan have perfected a new weapon of destruction: paid propaganda disguised as journalism. Through dubious websites and so-called news pages such as Watchdog Press, Nile Nation News Agency, and others of the same kind, a small group of morally bankrupt individuals have turned lies into a business and national collapse into a source of income.
These are not journalists. They are political mercenaries. They are boys who sold their dignity for survival, refusing honest work while choosing instead to fabricate stories day and night for whoever is willing to pay. Truth means nothing to them. Principle means nothing. South Sudan means nothing.
Their conduct is shameful and predictable. Today they are in one rebel camp, tomorrow in another—jumping camps like street traders chasing customers. Loyalty is auctioned to the highest bidder. Their mission is simple: get paid at all costs, even if the country burns to ashes. As long as money enters their pockets, the failure of South Sudan as a state does not disturb their sleep.
Recently, these same characters were seen aligning themselves with the SSSM, only to resurface again as loudmouths and spokespersons of the newly declared NUP rebellion of Deng Wek. This constant recycling of faces across rebellions exposes the fraud behind their so-called activism. They are not freedom fighters; they are hired mouths.
This lazy addiction to propaganda—this obsession with poisoning the public space with lies, insults, and character assassination—is not harmless. It is a direct threat to national stability. These paid pages have become factories of division, hatred, and confusion. They attack leaders, elders, and institutions not to correct or reform, but to destroy and cash out.
Ironically, many of these media traders have failed completely in their personal lives. They cannot build stable homes in their own villages. Some still wait for others to build a tukul for them. With weak academic backgrounds and no competitive skills, they cannot survive in a real digital or professional market. Instead of improving themselves, they choose the shortcut of propaganda-for-pay. Meanwhile, real academics and professionals are busy rebuilding families and communities, not shouting on Facebook for survival.
The next articles will expose how these individuals allegedly negotiate contracts with rebel movements, how payments are arranged, and how media pages are converted into weapons of war.
These uncouth, mannerless boys are merely tools—controlled by greedy power seekers whose objective is to destroy reputations, hijack public anger, and ascend to power for the sole purpose of looting national resources. What they boldly label as “activism” is nothing but rebellion in disguise, corruption in media clothing, and treachery marketed as journalism.
South Sudan must recognize these media merchants for what they truly are: not Nile Nation News Agency, not watchdogs Press, but vultures feeding on instability.