RealPolitik: Great Debate between Dr. Peter Wankomo and Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba

Dr. Peter Wankomo (Chief Editor of SouthSudanNation.com)

South Sudanese have been and are continuously being cheated, yes…. horribly being screwed by these unrepentant and unscrupulous gangsters who by their very role in the ‘Liberation’ have presumed the title of leaders of the nation in the ruling SPLM/A.

This is no exaggeration but a true expression by most South Sudanese of their current disgruntlement as there is palpably widespread anger in the country.

The entire SPLM/A Movement is now regretfully being remembered these days more for its awful inequities and scandals than for its now-fast-fading-from-memory heroic liberation struggle achievements.

After months of political infighting and instability, Dr. Riek Machar, the dismissed vice president, has unfortunately reared hishead, once again, as the contender amongst the gang vying against current president, Kiir Mayardit, for the SPLM leadership.

Without any doubt, Machar and gang are nothing but opportunistic and myopic hypocrites who think that they can just easily exonerate themselves of the horrible failures of the SPLM and shamelessly stand up as the ‘new saviors’ of the nation.

As leader of the gang of disappointed kicked-in-the-butt victims of Kiir’s decrees, Machar’s own complicitous political criminality over the last eight years in the failed and murderous government under the once-adored Kiir, doesn’t justify his pretentious re-incarnation.

These people, Machar, Nyandeng, Pagan, Lado Gore, Deng Alor (I thought he is in prison by now, remember the fire equipment scandal?) and all, while serving as ministers, governors or top party bosses, actively and conscientiously abetted their very nemesis, president Kiir, in the absolute misrule of South Sudan.

Let’s be serious, all ye ‘comraiders’ of the SPLM: who amongst you ever raised your feeble voices against Kiir just one time when you were all malevolently enjoying the raping of the nation as ministers or as SPLM SG or top generals at Bilpham?

With the rare uniqueness of the likes of Lawyer Peter Sule or Professor Nyamlele Wako, who amongst you, ye SPLM/A money lovers and political prostitutes, had the balls to confront Kiir when he blackmailed you in the list of 75?

Now, since we all unanimously accept that President Kiir and the entire SPLM/A have completely failed the nation’s governance, services delivery and security, among many failures, the question being frequently asked is what was Vice-President Machar doing all those long years as things were ‘falling apart’ in the GOSS?

Moreover, as we sadly remember slain patriot, Isaiah Abraham on his blatant state-sponsored assassination, what did Machar, the now-holier-than-Kiir, or any in the gang do to bring those allegedly apprehended suspects to trial or in the well-publicised murder case of Engineer Lewis allegedly by the Major-General Marial Jok of CID, why has he evaded justice and all ye ‘comraiders’ did nothing?

Again, when the 4-billion dollar scandal was revealed by none other than president Kiir himself, what did Machar do to expedite the recovery or prosecution of the thieves of the peoples’ money by his own SPLM/A ‘comraiders‘?

Incidentally, wasn’t it the same Machar who on a visit to the USA strenuously refuted that it was less than 4 billions that might have been stolen by his own ‘comraiders?’

Come on, ye ‘comraiders’ of the SPLM/A, sincerely speaking, none of you has the moral compass or personal integrity or simplest humility to stand up and challenge Kiir since you are all collectively the same despicable rot that is surely and expeditiously killing our nation.

Machar was one time the minister in charge of the Juba Power, but after eight years, Juba is a village with no light or piped water…what an absolute debacle.

Nyandeng was once minister of communications in charge of roads building but was kicked out after dismal failure……still potholes on the roads in Juba and non-existent roads in the rest of the country…. but perhaps not surprisingly, she is questionably excelling only in her own family businesses.

Would it not have been more sensible and patriotic if she had built her schools in her own restless and depraved Jonglei state for those martyrs’ children whose fathers were first coerced by her husband into the SPLM/A in 1983 instead of her educating the progenies of the SPLM/A thieves and the aliens in Juba?

In all frankness, the biggest question that must be asked again and again is how CLEANER is Machar or any and all in the SPLM/A rot in comparison to the already and allegedly corrupted and failed Kiir?

If anything, all preponderating evidence indisputably reveals that Machar himself is seriously a close or perhaps even a better contender to Kiir himself as allegedly being one of the richest personalities in the country.

In fact, the SPLM/A is now an exceptional club of dollar multi-millionaires who’ve became very rich in a record short time unimaginable, including many of those Machar ‘comraiders’ now posturing as saviours of a nation they have collectively and rapaciously gang-raped.

The evidence is all there in Juba: the multi-storied buildings, hotels, banks, V-8′s and businesses they own and/or in collaboration with their criminal partners from the Arab Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria, South Africa, Gulf Arabs, just name any…..

Furthermore, so many egregious crimes have been commissioned and committed by the combined Kiir-Machar regime in the eight years of their callous and untenable collaboration that should utterly negate Machar’s acclaimed innocence in the rotten system.

Today, the freedom we had yearned for and millions had died for over the many decades, is quickly dissipating, along with the vision of Garang.

More citizens are now wallowing in utter state of depravity and state of insecurity even in Juba, now the leading murder capital of the nation, whose scared men and women at night would rather defecate and piss in cans in the bedroom for fear of being killed going outside to the toilet.

In all frankness, the problem of our country is the entire ruling SPLM party which admittedly has lost and subverted the vision and goal of the liberation war.

As Frantz Fanon et al, stated on Africa, “that independence represented the capture of the State by local political elites who then used power to accumulate wealth.”

Questionably, this party, the SPLM/A, duplicitiously and criminally accorded itself millions from the national treasury as if it was their divine right.

Today, the SPLM/A party is sinfully and literally living off the blood of the cheated people of South Sudan, with thousands in the party machinery being paid by money looted from nation it has unforgivably immiserated.

Inevitably, whilst the SPLM/A is now on a self-destructive course and sooner rather than later, it’s going to self-implode with dire and fatal consequences for the country.

Interestingly, Machar has this eight-year cyclical leadership paranoia, an obsessive mental delusion that’s exaggerated by self-importance and presumption of leadership entitlement and posturing as if something divined unto him.

First, after exactly eight years of SPLM/A founding in 1983 under Garang’s leadership, the impatient and tired of waiting Machar, launched the infamous 1991 Split in the Movement that led to gross patricide and devastating retardation and fracturing of the SPLM/A.

Now again, it’s exactly eight years since 2005 when Kiir became President and SPLM/A leader, and now Machar is itching in his paranoid delusion for the leadership, as if predestined by some powers above, by leading a revolt against Kiir to become, by any means possible, the nation’s president.

There is cause for trepidation in the nation as the SPLM/A is facing a possible splinter and deadly revolt, once again, that might possibly torpedo our country into another repeat of tribal war of cataclysmic proportion.

Whether for Machar, Kiir, Pagan, Nyandeng or the entire SPLM/A rot, let’s pray no innocent blood be spilt again for the devilish ambitions of political reincarnation of these rotten SPLM/A personalities. END

Dear Peter,

I had expected the Editorial to chart a direction. Not all the heavy words you used put together will change the volatile political environment that is emerging in South Sudan. We need something concrete, tangible and perceivable by our people. Dr. Mansour Khaled some years back wrote “the Government they deserve” that was immediately before the demise of the May regime. Mansour and others tried then to put right the faltering May regime. Looking back at what is unfolding today in South Sudan, I would say the same that we, as South Sudanese deserve the government we now have. Why?

The political climate obtaining now has always been the same. We cannot dichotomize between now 2013 and the beginning of the SPLM in 1983, the aftermath of Yei crisis 2004 or following the tragic death of Dr. John Garang de Mabior 2005. The political elite or the common person on the streets in South Sudan have always behaved and reacted in the same way conforming to the status quo. People complain and indeed agonize, like this editorial, but nobody makes a departure by way of a counter organization suggesting that they can put up with their government bad as it may be.

Transposing this on our context, in the absence of any meaningful alternative political party, the change of necessity must come from within the SPLM whether or not the drivers are devils or angels. That is why I disagree with you because you seem to suggest in the barrage of negative adjectives that anybody who participated in SPLM government is incapable to initiating a process leading to transformation of the oppressive condition obtaining in South Sudan. Revolutions are started and driven by those who have been involved in the oppressive regime. By virtue of their intimate knowledge and interaction with it they kick start the process. Neither the passive one nor the absentees can alter what is going on in South Sudan.

I believe that Riek Machar’s Press Statement, which punctuates this political drudgery of agony, is better than the deceptive political calm that has characterised South Sudan since July 23rd when President Salva Kiir decreed the changes in government. We can reject the initiative launched by those who were part of the rut or stasis. That is the dynamics of life and politics. The NCP thugs have turned round and the ones running the show in the SPLM, because the SPLM leaders and cadres have since 2005 following the tragic death of Dr. John Garang been fighting themselves, blocking and short changing each other in the contest for power, influence and wealth. Many people did not see what was going on in the SPLM or decided to ignore it because they were more focused on the exercise of the right to self-determination and the referendum for independence.

The SPLM internal crises have now come into the open and nobody can afford to be indifferent as to be blaming or complaining. Whether we like it or not it is our common obligation to put things right. As I said earlier, those who think they will pick up the pieces are deceiving themselves because there will be no pieces. We should strive to put the SPLM on its feet in order to put South Sudan on the right track of nation building and state building. It is in this context that I supported the call to begin the political discourse within the SPLM.

It is the SPLM to clean its mess, reverse the trend towards ethnicization of politics in South Sudan and repair the social capital that bounded our people for centuries, which the war and conflict disrupted. It is therefore imperative to revitalize the SPLM through re-organization and institutionalization of its relationships. This is the only way to prevent the emergence of dictatorship. Kind regards

Peter Adwok Nyaba

THANK YOU, DR. PETER A. NYABA. RESPECTFULLY, MY CONCERN AS OF MANY OTHERS IS WHY ARE YOU GUYS STICKING WITH THE SPLM?

IN THE SPIRIT AND DETERMINATION OF ENGENDERING DEMOCRACY, WHY NOT YOU AND THE REST BREAK AWAY AND FORM A SEPARATE PARTY, WITH A NEWER NAME THAT WOULD QUICKLY GARNER WIDER, NON-TRIBAL POPULAR SUPPORT?

IN KENYA, MWAI KIBAKI DIVERGED FROM KANU AND FORMED A NEW PARTY AND NOW EVEN BABY BOY, UHURU KENYATTA DIDN’T REGENERATE HIS DAD’S KANU THAT BROUGHT KENYA’S INDEPENDENCE LIKE THE NOW DEARLY TOO-DEFORMED-TO-REFORM SPLM YOU ARE STICKING WITH.

THAT IS MY DIGRESSION. PETER