South Sudan: Seven Months to hold first democratic elections, an impossible dream for liar promises.
5 min readBy Morris Mabior Awikjokdit,
South Sudan as the independence country like the other independence democratic nations will hold its first democratic general elections in 2015 to join the world of democracy as per 2010 Geographical constituencies. These forthcoming elections on proposal will be freed and fair from any electoral multi-practices and all sorts of elections fraud.
Seven months from now for the country to make preparation for 2015 to conduct elections is a big challenge to both our states and National legislators because they have failed to assess the level of their failures and achievements making significant reviewing of their previous promises.
Those manifestos wrote by that time contains good promises that blindfold innocent eligible voters to vote for cats, dogs and unproductive trees which do not give good fruits to the entire communities of South Sudan. Some MPs sometimes always carry out hot debates in both houses of parliaments dwelling on their own privileges living the public in desperate and hopeless situation loosing trust and confidence in them.
Their manifestos contains vibrant and good promises like provision of cleaning drinking water, free education for both boys and girls, production of food security and maintain sustainable security in the community conflict affected areas but after they were voted in, get their good payment, good privileges, they relax and forget about all what they have written before.
I wish if H.E. the president of the Republic of South Sudan could allow primary elections to be the mechanism of conducting the proposed aftermath elections in the country would be better instead of electoral college and the political Bureau that has completely block they required system.
With Electoral College and PB formula, those who assumed to be politicians grab the system and confused the nation on their baseless wishes. They confusionees who are fighting the legitimate elected democratic government were the failures of 2010 elections and president Kiir favor them as brothers during the liberation struggle and yet they turned to be the problem to his throat and the people of the Republic of South Sudan.
In today Article, I will briefly talks about basic service delivery like water as one of the important and vital promise being point out at that time. For instance environment sustainability and the sustainability of a community is one of the significance aspects required by the community.
The provision of safe and purified, plentiful and affordable water sanitation services in South Sudan and her entire states is both a necessity and a challenge that has occupied the minds of development dreamers since the hope for the implementation of public water systems across the country. Assessing the sustainability of water for our communities is complicated by several factors.
First, water is a commodity that often is shared between different communities. If there is a water problem in one community, it may become a problem for other communities that partner in the provision of water (e.g these other communities may need to begin to share a water supply to assist the affected population of South Sudan).
Secondly, water systems are intricately involved in many other attributes of sustainability. If there is an insufficient amount of water, the cost of water could consequently rise and then there is an issue of social justice (since the poor are usually the one most affected by rising water problems) and economic vitality (since more money is going towards water provision in South Sudan).
Thirdly, there is an inadequate water quality in the states especially Warrap due to microbial or other contamination, human health could be affected. More areas like Tonj North, Gogrial East, Tonj East and part of Tonj South counties required considerable efforts.
In assigning weights to the various attributes of water quantity and quality, therefore, you should recognize the complex links between these attributes and the others appearing on pages associated with health, economic vitality and social justice in the Republic of South Sudan.
Water is live and live is water
Water plays a role in sustainable communities and therefore we needs to double our efforts very fast. In a sense, the concept of sustainability is quite simple but who can make more exploration about it. It refers to whether or not some aspect of the community continues to work overtime at an acceptable level of service.
For water service, this would mean that water continues to be available for the period for which it was designed. If a person can turn the tap on over 15 to 18 years time and the water comes out at the same rate and quality, and at the same cost, as the day the system was commissioned, then it is a sustainable supply.
These attributes of sustainability for water supplies can be divided into three main components: water quantity, water quality and the cost of water treatment.
Each of these components would be considered sub-attributes of water and thus require individual examination to discover their presence as metrics. The current article considers only water quality in the counties of interest across the Republic of South Sudan (those designated by triangle tomorrow).
Future versions of this opinion article will consider other counties in the Republic of South Sudan and the subsequent human basic need service delivery within the communities.
The author is a freelance opinion writer currently in Juba for an official visit. You can reach by email: wenangerdit4@gmail.com or contact: 0954243501, 0912646306
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