SOUTH SUDAN SHOULD NOT JOIN EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY (EAC)
By Bol Garang, Perth, Western Australia
There are no intentions for South Sudan to join East African Community according to my own sympathetic, I implicit that EAC is frolicking some games with rich countries like South Sudan to join them so that they could benefit on them but that’s dangerous, it won’t work. Why do our people kaput with danger and again commenced another danger? I perceived from South Sudan government officials calling people of African New Nation to join East African Community. Don’t our populaces know that East Africa Community is another danger? Why don’t our government produce sustainable peace in our Country first instead of joining EAC? Will become member of East African Community bring an end to out tribalism war in our Country? South Sudanese need comprehend that we’re not strong in most of the fields that East African countries have had establishes since their independents up to date.
South Sudan is not robust economically, politically, and geographically therefore; it will be stiff for South Sudanese to comprehended that community. According to global geographical location South Sudan is already located in East Africa, why do South Sudan need to join that muddled community again? Are Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi they only countries in East Africa? Where are Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somali, why don’t they join? Or are they not in East Africa by location? People need to think smart rather than chasing a wind that nobody knows when will it stop. South Sudan has it own resources that could make it more independent than become dependent; we got independent again to dependent why? Are we not tired of being under someone authority every time? Too much questions but our government bureaucrats need to be shrewder.
Furthermore, According to the circumstance of joint market procedure, South Sudan is not competent to become a participant of EAC because it has no proper economy, not to mention the non-existence of industries. But it would be expedient to Kenya and Uganda if South Sudan become a member. Should South Sudan join EAC, Kenya’s predominance of industries and financial growth will give her a chance to market her goods and services freely in south Sudan. They will also enjoy the free movement and getting labor jobs given the facts that Kenyans are more accomplished than their economy and they can employ their people in all the fields than make South Sudanese to suffer look the jobs. South Sudan will be a God-given marketplace without charge. In Addition, South Sudan has unfinished business with Kenya, the issue of “Elemi Triangle” region and borders are not clear so all those issues need to be finished before it become a member of EAC. I know many Refugees from South Sudan have been in Kenya for decades but that doesn’t qualify us joining them because we been in their region.
Moreover, for Uganda, the whole procedure of East African community combination is a development of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, he needed to take leadership of East African Community in coming years if he achieved political federation in EAC region. Separately from getting free markets for their local goods and services in South Sudan, Uganda would be possible to take advantage of South Sudan in EAC as another way to escape the issues of borders that always cause insecurity in South Sudan. Therefore, if Kenya and Uganda want to push South Sudan through to be a member they need to work hard to solve those issues of borders and their criminals with South Sudan government.
South Sudan has no local goods and services that will participate in the region since we don’t have industries manufacturing it may take us many years to accomplish before that our labor will be too susceptible to the rest of the region due to lack of edification, and these will result into Kenya and Uganda predominance of our markets in terms of labor capital. If we provocation joining East African community, we would be out contended in every job, even if they would need a housekeeper in South Sudan, a Kenyan or a Ugandan will take it because he/she would be more eligible for that job because of being a EAC member.
South Sudanese have suffered for decades during our struggles and after the struggles; they also agonized during of interim period, which let us to independent. Therefore, Our populaces should be knowledgeable about the coming of dangers of joining East African Community because they don’t want to struggle again after the achieved the victory of more than 50 years of war. The ordinary citizens must stop eavesdropping to the representatives whose inexperience is outside their integrity. They see the future of this republic in their own viewpoint not the impending generation’s perspective. We have everything to be the best economy in the continent and it just needs hallucination to get there other than membership of East African community. I can suggest to the people of South Sudan to advise themselves and tie and re-double their hard work in building the new nation rather than joining East African Community.
To sum up, I can say the East African Community was committed to ensuring peace generally triumphs in Sudan as a whole but if South Sudan joins the EAC it would weaken the economics of the county. The Republic of South Sudan provides a wide range of opportunities for investment and trade. Let me hasten to say that if South Sudanese enters into the East African Community regional. We’ll lose our economic but the more we lose our economic the more South Sudan remains undeveloped. Therefore, our government needs to study EAC properly before we become a member. No rush, we are East Africa by geographical location; we could remain like other East African countries who didn’t join and are still surviving.
Bol Garang “Man far a way from Corruption” and “Knowledge is Power” is South Sudanese resident in Perth, Western Australia and can be reach by email: wernyol@gmail.com
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