SPLM-DC is the only Solution to Ending Corruption in South Sudan
4 min readBy Hearty Ritti
South Sudanese will be better off working with the SPLM-DC to eliminate corruption, set accountability standards, jail the corrupt officials, improve governance, decentralize South Sudan social economy operations, create a sense of equality, justice and right to know for every South Sudan citizen than to just bystand watching president Salva Kiir Mayardit on SSTV over and over again playing the same old game title of “corruption”.
Who else can believe the president if he can not arrest thousands of corrupt officials who visit and pass by his office every day? Reporting to the ordinary citizen who has no capacity to arrest is a sign of an organized corruption.
Your tears over corruption will never cease, as long as the president continues to protect those corrupt officials and did not hand them over to the parliament or the justice system. More corruption is on the way as South Sudan economy deteriorates. But you can help by sending a direct and clear message to our president that if he cannot hand us the corrupt officials then he must step down in honoring the suffering of the masses. Ordinary south Sudanese today cannot afford the cost of commodities imported from neighboring countries to Juba, but the corrupt does not feel the heat of market skyrocketing prices.
Fellow South Sudanese, the right time to hold President Salva Kiir Mayardit accountable is now. The President has been in the forefront declaring war on corruption, he knows officials involved in corruption and yet the president choose not to persecute any of them for reasons known to him. The president was able to make decisions that cost over 500 lives in the recent war and he is not able to make a decision to arrest and recover the 4 billion stolen public by his inner circle ruling party the SPLM officials.
South Sudanese must wake up, discover themselves and stop throwing unwavering support for the ruling party the SPLM, which allows broad daylight public fund robbery. It is your responsibility to tell and to stop our president right there and tell him, enough is enough; somebody must go to jail or else you need to step down.
South Sudanese needs to think, act, and have control over their national treasury without interference from president/government. Let the president give the list of the corrupt officials to the civil society/ordinary citizen of South Sudan to decide their faith.
In SPLM-DC, the main opposition party in South Sudan, we envision life, liberty, freedom and pursuit of happiness of every South Sudanese citizen; we care for the common good of ordinary citizens, we think and believe justice and equality for our diversity’s is paramount, we believe the truth and patriotism, popular consultations, south -south dialogue as the key to get us out of the mess of corruption.
Overall, your silence open door for the corruption is South Sudan. Let us hold our president accountable and then, he can arrest his corrupt officials and bring them to the justices. Tell our president that reporting corruption is not enough and funny. We want to see those corrupt ruling party officials brought to justice and mandatory jail time.
Sincerely speaking ruling party’s monopoly of government by having control over 84% of States budget is a clear indication of organized corruption. Where on earth a government can centralize every resource and left huge populated states to survive with only 16% budget?
The Ruling party has done their best to divide South Sudanese on tribal lines by rewarding only one or two tribes and excludes the rest, but our citizens are smart enough to over-take ruling party’s bad governance and policies.
To the people of Greater Bahr el Ghazal, Greater Upper Nile and Greater Equatoria, let us continue to be united under SPLM-DC leaders to create checks and balances in the system of our government; so that the democratic transformation can take place and the corrupt officials will one day go to the jail.
Wishing you all the best.
Ritti
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