Eight Years of Suffering, What to Celebrate in the New Year 2013?
5 min readEight Years of Suffering, Funerals and Weeping, What to Celebrate next?
By Heskey Deng
I wonder what to celebrate, my birthday has already past, while Christmas is gone, and New Year is on the way with a lot of sadness, but those are obvious in human life. Apart from those events, I was looking to celebrate what our government has done, but no accomplishment to be a party because last year I notable the independence day at my house after the new year, now what achievement, is I {are we} going to commemorate at the end of this year and to tell the world, nothing on the ground, only corruption. Eight years of freedom in South Sudan past with nothing, just mirroring eight years of blood-bleeding, funeral and suffering, just corruption made by our government both former and current, as a year of CPA, only referendum but not their made, it was something documented in the CPA, that results to the independence, all this year, are misleading, no clear ruling, citizens are unsatisfied, years of darkness future, just bloodshed, funerals and death are the good news in the Country.
Joys and celebration end, once the Comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) has signed in Kenya 2005, by the Khartoum government and the current government of late rebel John Garang De Mabior and now headed by his comrade Salva Kiir Mayardit, and the Independence of South Sudan, was the only time the citizens were happiest and display theirs’ hope that no more suffering, funeral and weeping, and this is exactly time I saw joys written on the peoples’ faces, but things fall apart.
First, I thank you {president}, just because of the referendum, which has made on time and results in the independence of this country, that is achievement you did and it will be count on you because you didn’t return the Country into a senseless war, and no more on you again which I can say and people know of you.
More so, once the current president took the front seat on the same year, he botched to look into the Country‘s affair but just of his own affairs. He has applied the short-sighting and brains, which can’t view the country situation. Also he took leadership for the different means, that’s why most of his government officials are not working together, also president security personnel are from his region, who doesn’t know what do the security means? They are not well-train; they leave their work and turned it to illegal murdering, assassinated and torturing innocent people.
All in all, the eight years of Kiir ruling, are well-known for corruption, suffering, weeping/crying and funerals in the country, no change has been brought by the president, he don’t work like elected president. President with his governments has failed to development the Country, no schools, no clearing water and no road networks, even failed to modernized and equipping the country national army, no aircraft anti-gun and warplane to defense the Country, due to his government failure has results to many rebels in the country and inter-tribal conflicts, peoples died every days, Khartoum government bombed innocent people, biased South territory for example what has happened in northern Bahr Al Ghazel and no words from the president, he didn’t appear on the television screen, who are you ruling if you don’t talks on such things. Do you have another country, are you president somewhere apart from South Sudan.
However, Mr. President with your second person and cabinets in the government, these eight years reflecting nothing to the citizens, you just look at your nose, doesn’t mean that when your home is satisfying and rich, then likewise to other homes, “No”, just corruption, looting public funds and assassinated the government critics, has been made by your government. Also you even failed to organize war wounded, forget them and you know, they don’t have the power to make theirs owns’ living, disable is not disability. While they were effective during the war eve, now they are useless.
This was not their fault; they don’t love or choose to be disabled, they were defending the South Sudan territory from the Khartoum government, they were not cowards, that’s why their legs and hands left on the war zone ground and their bloods have cemented this land, and now you put deaf ear on them, what do they celebrate for all these eight years of your ruling? If they are crying or shouting at you, do you think your leadership will go smart, think big president with your government, because is shameful for president to forget his war-mates comrades, if your government is not working, you would have compensated the war disables and even numbering your Army/soldiers into batches, CPA signed, as those who were at war front, would be batch one and follow by militias but now is too confusing.
Of course, this time around, it needs to review your leadership and government, what did your government do for this all eight years? Where the country is heading now? Because being the president, want big brains, high thinking capacity and absent yourself from sleeping, tribalism, nepotism, drinking and woman, because those are the enemy of leadership, so think big. When will your leadership and governments going to satisfy the entire citizens.
Even as, gone eight years are enough, your government officials are satisfied. Let your government get make use of this upcoming year 2013, let peace rain in the country, show your leadership to the citizens, a year of freedom, peace/stability, development and no corruption, let it be the year of no more bloodshed, no hunger, weeping and funeral, a year of no rebels, tribalism/nepotism. As a year of erection worth schools, road networks, and services reach the civilians, also a year of taking town to the people.
I wish all of you happy prosperous New Year 2013.
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