South Sudan should build Good institutions to create harmony and nationhood among the citizens
4 min readBy Michael Mading Akueth, Panyagor, South Sudan
March 18, 2015 (SSB) – The SPLM/A fought and liberated this country and make us the first citizen in our country but we need good institutions that can serve us. There is much courage that is hidden in a man; the courage to fight and the courage to build good institutions that will be used to enhance the freedoms and economic development of a nation.
The courage to build competence and goods institutions in South Sudan remain a challenge since 2005 for the SPLM leaders. They may divided them into different small SPLMs but we as a people of this country; we see them all as responsible for what had happened and what is not happening.
The government officials have attended several capacity building trainings in the regions facilitated by the best experts but we can confess that they have achieved little if not none. They sit in their office as if there is nothing wrong in the way things are being done in the whole country. Why are we lacking good institutions? Do we lack good leaders to establish them?
First, in my view I think the reason is that the leaders have no vision to build competence institutions that can streamline the government operations and put systems in its place. The vision drives the leader to deliver services in a very difficult situation as illustrated by Nelson Mandela in one of his numerous speeches:
“Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.”
The leaders should always strive to establish institutions to promote good governance, rule of law, banking systems, human rights and others. The system should provide a person with equal opportunities so that no any citizen will feel like is not part of the Republic South Sudan.
It is very unfortunate that citizens are still complaining about institutions as being un-functional and discriminatory. They failed to integrate their knowledge and experiences into good institutions to serve citizens in regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity or religious affiliations.
Secondly, there are attempt by some leaders to establish good institutions in their areas of work but they got themselves being sabotage by mafias who are benefiting out of bad institutions. These groups of elites are benefiting through bad institutions in South Sudan and they resist the establishment of good institutions. They always work against these leaders who are trying to establish good structures in the government ministries and use lobby strength to get some of them sack or transfer to other dockets.
Borrowing from Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson book “why the nations fail” it is apparent in this book that nations fail because of lack of good functioning institutions. We are also mindful that good institutions are build by good leaders.
However, for the mean time let support South Sudan current leaders to establish competence institutions for this nation to be stable and peaceful. If we will not build competence institutions that promote rule of laws and respect to human rights then let prepare ourselves for the worst in this country.
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