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The Failures of SPLM and Expectation to Rule South Sudan
If it Secedes As Independent State
By Col. John Muorwel Majak Wol
SEPT 27/2009, SSN
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SPLM-GoSS Five year-Salva Administration
The
Sudan People Liberation Movement/Army, SPLM/A and the ruling National
Congress Party NCP as the principal signatories to the Sudan
Comprehensive Peace Agreement CPA/2005 signed on Jan 9,2009 in Nairobi,
Kenya, right thereafter departed with ownership of the key protocols on
power and wealth sharing to mention a few as per this analysis. However,
the agreement no matter how complex it was made but the CPA/2005
stipulated that the first Vice President of the Republic of the Sudan
shall be the President of the six years Interim Government of Southern
Sudan.
Therefore, this marks the second coming
into force after two decades without system of governance in Southern
Sudan the test of administration by Southern Sudanese themselves under
the leadership of the Sudan People Liberation Movement/Army with the
lion share of 70% in the both Executive and Legislative organs in the
two concurrent Governments in the Sudan as per CPA/2005 Article 3.5.1.1
and 3.6.4.1 read together with Article 5.6 on allocation of 50% net oil
revenue purposely meant to meet the development cost and provisions of
basic social services at all levels of government and in particular with
an appeal to the international and donor community to help the
Government of Southern Sudan by providing the post-conflict
reconstruction assistance.
But the worrying question is where have
all these resources gone when they are not seen on tangible public
utilities and the strategic projects or developmental activities to
achieve the said reconstruction strategy? And the available answer from
the ordinary citizen is that the resources have been diverted by the
senior government officials to cover their private financial burdens and
to buy luxurious houses in America, Europe, and Australia and East
African countries. The Government of Southern Sudan structurally has
toothless Anti-Corruption Commission which never accused any government
official, investigate even a single case file amongst the rampant
corruptions at all levels leave alone to recommend the legal proceedings
against any accused to the prosecuting Attorneys and the Judiciary of
Southern Sudan. The ruling party SPLM/A keeps deaf ear and blind eye on
those officials in its capacity to call upon individual corrupt
officials to quit public offices since there is continuous out cry of
corruption and none of the wrong element ever voluntarily resigned to
pave the way for investigation.
Nevertheless, there has never been a
single development in South Sudan through public sector in competitive
and standardized bidding procedures other than witnessed huge allocation
of public money to private businessmen and women who in return divided
the coins. Instead, no basic social services such as water, education,
accessible roads, health and most primarily physical security. The death
toll in ten Southern Sudan States remains on headline without notice of
difference between time of war and peace. Thus, the second legitimate
question is how long does it take for a post-war country which
immediately gets 50 % net oil share and other reconstruction funds to
make institutional transformation including control of social security
order and can it be possible when the SPLM-GoSS administration failed to
follow the public services regulations and contrarily adopt culture of
tribalism, nepotism and corruption as norm of the SPLM-GoSS Interim
Administration?
2. South Sudan Interim Legislative
Assembly
To focus more on security situational
analysis, the security fails due to lack of competent Legislative organ
in South Sudan which has now resulted in slow progress if not collapse
of the whole law enforcement units to maintain law and order. This is
gross failure of the Southern Sudan Interim Legislative Assembly whose
leadership from top to bottom lacks parliamentary procedures and ethics
being the two third majority of the Assembly members can not read and
write and for the first time to join the August House. The SSLA since
its composition has been doing nothing than being highly paid and no
expectation of what a legislator can do.. I am confident that the
security failures are not attributable to personalities in charge of the
institutions concerned since the Police, Prison services and many more
Bills are not signed into law to enable the line ministries and judicial
organs fully implement the legal instruments. In the Wednesday
Parliamentary sitting that lack quorum when the majority Members of
Parliament are just loitering in and outside Juba while the few
successful MPs are following up the implementation of the Constituencies
development fund projects.
I am fully aware of the distinctive job
done by the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development in
the legislative drafting and Bills are just either hanging at the
cluster level or kept before the Honorable August House without
deliberation. How do you expect the law to come in force when it is not
passed by the Assembly? For example, how did SPLM-GoSS administration
settle the Yambio incident that cause lives of three police officers and
countless deaths both directly and in cold blood in South Sudan are
taking place?
No perpetrators have been caught and if found
then no immediate pre-trial proceedings conducted nor brought to
justice, notwithstanding the third question is what is expectation of
South Sudan if it is going to secede in the
helpless hands of the SPLM-GoSS administration. Again we want to know
whether the will of democratic change and setting of proper system of
governance is going to happen that overnight if referendum confirmed
secession in 2011 A.D? Perhaps the public need a clear explanation on
this matter.
3. SPLA Forces and Malpractice
Administration
The Sudan People Liberation Army is a courageous guerilla army compared
to former Anyanya movements one and two who sacrificed their blood for
the common cause of the marginalized people and acts of successive
Khartoum administration against secularists in South Sudan. But after
the war of liberation struggle is over with hope of growth and recovery
from war to peace building initiative for two decades without payment
and lost of lives, the SPLA top leadership turned down their needs and
selectively enriched themselves with public money.
The President of the Government of Southern
Sudan who is the same time Commander-in-Chief of the SPLA and the Army
senior management body failed to organize the army to date from
guerrilla movement to modern and professional national army. Their
monthly Salaries are delayed and not all of them are getting paid, the
rest are disorganized without ID Cards and there are those who get paid
without ID Cards. There is no administration of social services support
to either much affected unorganized soldiers and or the disarmed groups
not to mention the current one time support of food stuff and tool kit
material which is also being corrupted by the relevant SSDDRC
authorities
4. The Dilemma Surrounding Election and
Referendum in South Sudan
The CPA/2005, the Interim National
Constitution INC/2005 and the Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan
ICSS/2005 respectively stipulated that the two subsequent items namely
election and referendum must take place and missing of one item is a
complete abrogation of the CPA/2005. In details, these prerequisite are
both complicated and there is no way to escape them whatsoever. Failure
to conduct free and fair election at any level of Government shall be
separately accounted.
Consequently, the said failures surrounding
upcoming general election and referendum are now showing up colors in
South Sudan when there is disturbing insecurity all over. How can
Southern Sudanese unite themselves at one point to peacefully discuss
such national issues of destiny when the SPLM-GoSS administration in the
first place fail to unite the civil population including a reasonable
proposal of peace and reconciliation amongst Southern Sudanese
themselves.
The right of self determination for the
people of Southern Sudan should not be tampered with and is the primary
purpose of the CPA/2005 as required to conduct an internationally
monitored referendum exercise in 2011 A.D to choose either unity or
separation. Nevertheless, it's a collective decision of the Southerners
to go for one but not a single political decision of individuals who
have negative perception of becoming everything.
The right of self determination shall be
directly decided by the people in the referendum exercise.
5. The National Election
Commission: Annexation of Sultan Madut Ring to Abyei Area
The alarming situation is now happening in
Twic County as the National Election Commission headed by Muolana Abel
Alier unconstitutionally decided to annex part of Twic County partly
Sultan Madut Ring geographical location which does not either bear a
protocol in the former Addis Ababa Peace Agreement or the current
CPA/2005 to Abyei protocol, though repeatedly failed from day one of its
special administrative status.
Now the final question is that if some larger
geographical constituencies and majority sultanate like Sultan Madut
Ring in Twic County are taken to Abyei, then what do you expect of other
smaller and minority groups like Samuel Amum Okiec and the Shilluk
geographical location, and that they can be easily taken any where in
the South if that is the case. Muolana Abel knows beyond reasonable
doubt that Abyei area is the only part annexed to Southern Kordofan as
formerly granted by the Addis Ababa Agreement when he was the President
of the Higher Executive Council.
To date, the smallest Ngok Dinka are at all
levels of government in Khartoum, Juba, Southern Kordofan, Warrap, Unity
and Abyei itself and yet the National Election Commission furthermore
annexed some locations to Abyei when they are almost every where in the
Sudan. I appeal to the National Election Commission leadership to
immediately cancel the annexation of Twic County to Abyei and return
Twic County to its original jurisdiction and apologize to the Twic
community forthwith.
6. Conclusion
In conclusion, the only remedy for the
Government of Southern Sudan and the people to cross the road is only
unity of the people of Southern Sudan and introduce a culture of
peaceful dialogue and collective participation in the nation building
and democratic transformation.
Last but not least the right of self
determination shall be by popular declaration in the referendum
exercise. No individuals from President General Salva Kiir Mayardit and
SPLM Secretary General Pagan Samuel Amuom can be seen as the only
architects of separation in South Sudan when they are unable to run the
state of affairs in the co-chaired Government.
Finally, I appeal to the law enforcement
agencies to search all the culprits and perpetrators behind the Yambio
killing of three police officers and cold blood death of Mary Biringi
and bring them to Justice, insert much attention to insecurity headline
in Jonglei State intertribal conflict which is a real threat to CPA/2005
and other States to allow culture of peace and way to run the election
and referendum in a peaceful environment.
This is personal statement and does not
represent any level of Government in the Sudan. The author is a concern
South Sudanese living in Khartoum. For more information do not hesitate
to reply me through johnmuorwel@yahoo.com.
Col. John Muorwel Majok Wol
Email: johnmuorwel@yahoo.com
Tel: Mobitel +249-912948763; Sudani +249121859916
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