Remember the controversial South Sudan tycoon swimming in a bath tab filled with $1 million (Ksh.100 million) which he claimed was a donation to charity and showing off his vast wealth.
Well, the Tycoon as he likes to call himself is back on the head lines.
The ‘Young Tycoon,’ as he likes to call himself, has stated that he has ordered a halt to mining activities in his company and his trucks be filled with food and go to Turkana effective from tomorrow to respond to drought crisis in the region that has been hit hard.
After watching the poor pics and videos of the children and old men of #turkana dieing of hunger have odered my trucks to stop all mining activities and fill them with food and go to #turkana effective from tomorrow pic.twitter.com/Kt1oJNNXpc— Lawrence Lual Malong Yor Jr (@LualJr) March 17, 2019
Via his twitter account , Lual posted dozens of trucks which will be used in the relief program alleged to be sponsored by himself.
The South Sudan tycoon Lawrence Lual Malong Yor Jnr is a man of large means and fat pockets, and he loudly tells it to anyone who cares to listen.
A recent documentary by award-winning Kenyan investigative journalist John Allan Namu titled ‘The Profiteers’ painted General Paul Malong as among a few powerful people who gained immense wealth from South Sudan’s civil war and stashed them in foreign banks.
The documentary also portrayed Mr. Yor as General Malong’s son, a claim the two have now come out to refute.
General Malong, who was sacked by South Sudan President Salva Kiir in May 2017, denied orchestrating the bloodbath in South Sudan which led to the displacement of over two million people in a span of slightly over two years, beginning 2013.
In the now viral video where Mr. Yor referred to himself as one of ‘Africa’s youngest billionaires’, he also alleged to have previously donated $5 million (Ksh.500 million) to the Kenya Red Cross and the South Sudan Red Cross, adding that he had made other million-dollar donations to churches in Juba and Nairobi.
Red Cross Kenya, when contacted for comment, denied Mr Yor’s allegations.
Noellah Musundi, public relations manager at the Kenya Red Cross told “Newsweek”: “The claims in the video [by Mr. Yor] are not correct. We are following up on this false claim, which is misleading and malicious.”
In an exclusive interview with Citizen TV’s Jeff Koinange aired on Sunday, Mr. Yor revealed that he was wearing designer shoes worth $10,000 (Ksh.1,000,000) and a Rolex watch worth $100,000 (Ksh.10,000,000).