South Sudanese parliament has let down the people
4 min readSouth Sudanese Parliament has let down the People
By David Aoloch Bion
‘’ Two heads are better than one’’ English proverb
‘’ One head is better than two’’ South Sudanese proverb
In primary school book, it is written, there are three branches of the Government, namely, the Executive, the Legislature, the Judiciary. The work of executive is to execute the laws, the work of the Legislature is to set laws; the work of the Judiciary is to interpret the laws.
However, in South Sudan, the laws are set by the Committee form by the Executive known as Constitutional Review Committee. The question is
‘’ What is the work of the parliament if the constitution is written by a committee outside the parliament?’’ This question gives us our title ‘’ South Sudan parliament has let down the people ‘’. Because It failed to apply it lever of check and balance in the state.
The executive has deprived Members of Parliament (MPs) of the ultimate right of making laws. On the other hand, the MPs cowardly kept quiet, therefore, this give us another title ‘’ South Sudanese parliament is nursery school class’’
If it were a primary school class or real parliament, it would have known the work of parliament as written in the primary school text book. And demand it .
Honourable MPs, you are nursery school pupils, because you are paid a lot of money and you don’t perform your duties of making laws,. You are just like the breast feeding babies who don’t do anything to their hard working mothers
Your mediocrity proof the words of my uncle Deng Mach Kur who once said ‘’ 75% of those going to parliament will come back without opening their mouths or raising any motion ‘’
If you were not nursery pupils you would have not allowed the constitution to be written outside the parliament building. The university students always allow the Constitution to be written by the committee of lawmakers appointed by the Speaker of Parliament not the committee appointed by the President. The work of the President is to sign it into law. If there is clause in the constitution which is violating people rights, it is corrected in a referendum not by executive or legislature anymore.
The work of South Sudanese MPs reminded us of another story in the primary school book. The story was written in the The New York Times newspaper in the 1960s during the formation of defunct Organization of African Unity (OAU). When African leaders met for the first time in Addis Abba, Ethiopia and the agenda was the unity of Africa, this worried and angered Western Powers. So, the New York Time wrote in it editorial page, I quote
‘’45 monkeys met in the big village called Addis Abba and they discussed nothing, they decided nothing, so don’t worry, it failed from its start’’
The story is rewritten like this
‘’ 230 pupils of Nursery school sit in the big classroom call parliament in Juba , and they call themselves MPs , for nine years , they debated nothing , they passed nothing , so the country is in turmoil ’’
In another primary school book, it is written ‘’ two heads are better than one head ‘’ . Here in South Sudan millions of heads are complaining of, about one man with one head of destroying South Sudan. Is this true? If it is true then in South Sudan ‘’ one head is better than million heads ‘’
Since December 15, 2013, there has been no single statement, decision coming out of parliament as the people’s highest institution
So MPs don’t be spectators, stop cowardice, you come out with clear strategy,
If it is President Kiir , tell him to finish his term in 2015 and no more of him ,
If is Rebel Riek , ban him from politics for life .
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