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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