Ambassador Gordon Buay Malek: I Will Serve the Country with all my Energy
3 min readI Will Serve The Country With All My Energy
Public Statement
18/09/2014
I want to inform the people of South Sudan who congratulated me for being appointed as an Ambassador that I will serve the country with all my energy to secure its rightful place in the world. As the youngest country on earth, South Sudan is an emerging democracy whose government was popularly and democratically elected in 2010.
The violence which erupted in December, 2013 was orchestrated by individual politicians who mobilized tribal forces to fight the state by exploiting the backwardness and ignorance of the majority of our people who cannot differentiate between a state and a tribe. Majority of the people of South Sudan in rural areas define a state via the lenses of their cattle camps.
They don’t know that a state means organized authority over the country—meaning government and its pillars, such as Army, Police, Civil Service, Judiciary, the Executive, etc. Therefore, the political entrepreneurs who staged a coup on December, 15, 2013 exploited tribal sentiments and backwardness to unleash illegal violence against the state.
The international community must assist the government of South Sudan to inculcate nationalism in the minds of our people so that they live as one people one nation. The only solution to end violence in South Sudan is for the international community to assist the democratically elected government of South Sudan morally, politically and financially to deliver services to the rural areas so that farmers will resist politicians who want to use them as tools to destabilize the country.
The Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan has outlined procedures for any politician to come to power. One of them is through a democratic election. The use of force to topple a government is illegal everywhere including the kingdom of God. Therefore, the world must condemn anybody in South Sudan who resorts to the use of force to get to power.
Our constitution is very clear when it comes to getting into the palace. No one can come to power by breaking the window. The constitution says anybody who wants to come to power must come through the front door. Somebody cannot sneak in under cover of darkness to occupy the palace by breaking the window and then expect the people of South Sudan to support him. Breaking the window to get inside the house is by itself a criminal offense, let alone breaking into the palace to occupy a Presidential seat illegally.
In conclusion, I am urging all the people of South Sudan to stand behind the democratically elected government and condemn tribal violence that hampers socio-economic development of the country. The people of South Sudan must transcend tribal loyalties and stand behind President Kiir to develop the country under the motto of “One Nation One People”.
Gordon Buay, New York City
Email: gordonbuay@hotmail.com
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