Slate Nation:” I am scared and my life is in danger if I were to go back to South Sudan”

Slate nation

Slate nation Source: SBS Dinka

South Sudanese artist Slate Nation refused to go back to South Sudan after the end of his second tour in Australia. SBS Dinka contacted Emete the business owner of Emete Entertainment Company that sponsored the Slate Nation and his fellow artist Daniel Diing Anyai. The letter which is seen my SBS Dinka bearing the signature of Slate Nation.


“I write this letter regarding my visit to Australia; my visit is strictly based on Music. My only purpose of going is to perform to my lovely fans who want to see me come back and perform, I must depart Australia on 04/12/2017 back to my home country South Sudan because I have things to take care of, for example my family. As soon as my activity is done, I will immediately return home before my Visa expires, just like how I did it before on my previous tripe.”
Letter from Emete confirming the agreement
Letter from Emete confirming the agreement between Slate Nation and the Campany Source: SBS


Emete said, ‘I fear these could jeopardise many chances and I wonder how I can trust others who may need to come to Australia for music concert?” after Slate was not seen in the airport, Emete made a complaint Lodgement to the relevant bodies.

 

“There is breached of agreement between mentioned above person failure to his departure date as agreed between our company (Emete Entertainment Company) and the artist. We arranged for the artist to depart Australia on 06 December 2017 with Thai Airway TG466. Please be advised that we are unable to locate the artist before his departure time, we also tried to contact him via Facebook including his local phone number our effort unsuccessful as we are unable to locate the artist to depart Australia.”

 
 

Today SBS Dinka managed to interview Slate Nation and he cited the reasons for not traveling on his life and security back home in South Sudan.

 

“I have not gone back home because I do have a problem with some unknown people because I composed two songs in my new album call ‘you can only be appreciated after death’. One of the songs is called ‘pïïr’(life) and this song is talking about many things………..because these two songs many unknown people started to call me and send me messages. They were questioning me why I composed a song like that? In that case, I fear for my life and safety.”

 

Here is the interview with Slate Nation

 

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