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QUOTE:
“What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but
rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say
things.” Former Czech president, Vaclav Havel.
In as much as we’d
have liked to keep looking optimistically forward after more than six
years of Kiir’s SPLM/A total domination rule in South Sudan nation,
there is seemingly a diminished momentum in the actualization of and
delivery of the promised peace dividends to the people.
2-Since, the Kiir
government is undisputedly a virtual one-man, one-tribe and one-party
government, it already emblematizes all the signs of a failed state with
still-born institutions of governance and an incapacitated and redundant
parliament that’s wholly indebted to the president.
3-Despite the
numerous challenges we’re going to confront as a new nation, and the
palpable constraints of capacity we’ve, the SPLM/A leader and president
of GOSS fallaciously embarked on too many hurriedly misconceived
priorities that are now proven unattainable.
4-Contrary to the
popular cliché that ‘we’re starting from the scratch,’ which is often
peddled by SPLM/A government leaders, South Sudan was fortunately
blessed to start a new country with billions of real American dollars
accruing from the oil directly paid to the Kiir’s government.
5-But,
unfortunately, the paradise promised is still a dream as most of the
gargantuan priorities tabled by the ministers and top bureaucrats were
more or less projects devised to loot all those billions the GOSS
received.
6- So, whilst
millions of South Sudanese remained impoverished, their rightful money
was carried in broad daylight abroad despite Kiir's often expounded
promises and avowals, nationally and internationally to practice good
governance:
A- Lost fight on
corruption: i) Overwhelmingly, the main concern raised by
international leaders at the recent Washington Engagement meeting was
the well-known pandemic of corruption that has characterized and dogged
the Kiir’s government since coming to power in 2005.
ii)- Evidently,
Kiir is totally incapable to stop corruption that is so blatantly
perpetuated by his government simply because those engaging in it are
people who, one way or another, have close umbilical connections to the
top, and therefore they are totally immunized.
iii)- Up to this
point in time, the president has seemingly lost any sense of
embarrassment or moral courage to stop and prosecute his very own
appointees stealing the people’s money
iv)-Telling more
lies won’t end this scourge; if Kiir is really sincere, he’d be the
first to declare his own and his family assets NOW before the newest
dateline of end of January, 2012, and then have every minister and party
officials and the army generals declare theirs after him.
B-Sustainable
Development and Stability: (i) Currently, the paradigm of
development envisioned by the Kiir government already veers toward that
of a failed state because of wrong development priorities, corruption
and inertia on democracy.
ii) Since the
country is totally dependent on the one income, oil revenue, the future
is predictably un-assured unless other sources of revenues are sooner
found to ensure economic and political stability.
iii)- We’d never
emulate Kenya as our idol, neither should the GOSS remain too much under
the spell of foreign donors, foreign advisors and dubious so-called
NGO’s who’ve mesmerized a leadership that in actuality never was
prepared to handle the responsibility of running an independent country.
iv) We’ll never
develop with the current bloated centralized government bureaucracy in
Juba which consumes nearly 90% of the national government budget while
the States where most of the suffering population resides, only get next
to nothing.
C-Human Rights
Abuses: i) Alarmingly, even during this auspicious Christmas
season whilst Kiir and his cronies publicly lie about tolerance and
respect across the country, the State security organs continue
inflicting gross human rights abuses and acts of inhumanity including
loss of innocent lives.
ii) As human rights
abuses spiral unabatedly, the rule of law is severely curtailed; South
Sudanese freedom thinkers sleep uneasily because of Kiir’s bush
totalitarianism to suppress freedom of speech.
iii) Where is the
freedom when SPLA soldiers randomly shoot and kill Christian worshippers
at Pigi without provocation, or when civilian detainees die in
government detention centers and prisons and being denied any recourse
to trial in the courts of law or the presumption of innocence?
iv) Even after
more than six years out of the forest, the SPLM/A machinery is still
practicing its despicable jungle laws of arbitrary and illegal arrests,
torture in Bashir-like ghost houses and state terrorism to subdue any
opposition.
D-Security
Deterioration: i) In spite of having a massive Army that consumes
more than 40% of the national budget, the prevalence of inter and
intra-tribal wars and killing of women and children continue unabated
especially in the very areas and amongst the very tribes that most of
the government leaders originated from.
ii) If President
Kiir or vice/pres. Machar or these state governors can’t pacify their
next of kin to desist from militarism and to seek peaceful means of
resolution to their perennial problems, then the obvious question is
whether these persons can really be true national leaders.
iii) In a
civilized political environment, the abovementioned would have either
voluntarily submitted their letters of resignations or simply voted out
by the people. How long will our nation continue to bleed under an
incapable tribalized leadership?
D-War with the
Sudan: i) The Year 2011 is ending with grave trepidation due to the
evolving permanency of war of attrition along the northern border with
Sudan in which President Kiir’s government is highly suspect of abetting
their former allies perpetuate cross-border incursions.
ii)-Totally
needless, a war with the North so early in our infancy is unnecessary
especially when we still have a million fellow citizens un-repatriated
from the north and vital issues still remain unresolved with the north.
iii)-A war again
with the North is disadvantageous and inevitably devastating since money
for deliverance of the peace dividends will be inevitably diverted to
the war effort and to supporting the thousands of displaced peoples from
those ‘marginalized’ areas.
E-Dysfunctional
governance: i)-As the Year 2011 ends, the Parliament has been
exhibiting such sardonic buffoonery and incompetence that it’s totally
unable to deliberate and legislate on pending crucial issues.
ii) Whilst the
official universities in South Sudan remain non-operational due to
budgetary problems, President Kiir ill-advisedly allotted 11 million
dollars to the head of Ramciel Capital Relocation commission to built
houses for his government officials, not in Ramciel but in Juba.
ii)-If this isn't
sheer stupidity, then something awfully mysterious is unfolding in the
country. Even if Kiir still has an appetite for Juba, he has barely done
nothing to even revitalize the hospital or even improve the supply of
clean water or build a sewage system in the city that he still loves not
to abdicate.
iii)-But more
significantly is the clear desperation prevalent among the young
educated South Sudanese who, despite making up the majority of our
nation’s population, can’t find a job.
iv)-Today, in the
GOSS, what matters is whom you know and not what you know; the situation
is further aggravated by the inability of the government to expand the
economy so as to create more employment.
v)- It’s utterly
deplorable that GOSS is importing those thieving Kenyans as experts when
it’d have been cheaper and nationalistic to train its own citizens for
those jobs.
vi)- Finally,
instead of empowering true South Sudanese to indulge in business or
other modes of investment so as to create jobs and improve their own
people, the Kiir’s government has cynically facilitated the total
takeover of our economy by those Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis
adventurers and conmen and -women who are literally fleecing our
country.
As Kiir always
sermonizes to the people, “it’s too early to see the changes so soon.”
How long will the people wait and remain patient? (Dec.
28/2011)
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