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A reply to Mameer Deng Jur

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A reply to Mameer Deng Jur:  Restating our neighbour’s have buried us and ways forward for our country. 

Dear MDJ.

Thanks for confirming my concerns and reassuring me about the best ways forward for our beloved country! I promised myself not to write about the current management of the country but the history of the lost boys.
I chose to write it, not because am a historian or the best writer; in fact, I possess not a certificate of attendance in both writing and history.
However, I spent my weekends writing our history (especially Palotaka boys) because am tired of telling others who need to understand what happened with the boys, in the perspectives( say this and don’t say that, show here and don’t  show there) of others!

So this should be my last writing on current happenings(affairs) of our country. The letter will restate the points in my  comment that I wrote as a reply to your comment (under Kenyans  must stop scaring tactics and bullying: South Sudanese are your business partners not your subjects! ): our neighbours burried us through economy and health, and the ways forward must be: enticement of South Sudanese graduates in abroad, invest in education  and industrial revolution.

MDJ, the foreigners especially the Kenyans and Ugandans buried us economically; they snatched most jobs including jobs in the hearts of the government: jobs such as secretarial jobs and messaging jobs. Someone whispered to me that a Kenyan(lady) does a messaging job in office of the president! If this reflects the truth, then where is the security of the head of the nation?
If this holds some grains of the truth, then what about other offices such as the office of information, foreign affairs, defence…they would be flooded with foreigners doing Jobs such as cleaning, shoes polishing, delivering newspapers or whatever jobs below the knees but that isn’t my concern,  I worry about the security of the country, what if a spy of other nations (neighbours) apply for a job of cooking coffee or cleaning in office of defence or the information? If this happens? Where is our secret hidden? ” For national security, better safe than sorry ” John Howard warned the Australians.

Kenyans brag about their statistics of HIV/AIDS victims as lower than those of our country; however, the selfish beings took advantage of our innocence in borders security and in health issues. Their victims poured into our beloved country and smeared the population with the incurable diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B/C! In stead of establishing health check points for testing these diseases, our people stationed looting check points.
Someone may point to health centres as expensive; but the medical tests’ charges would run the centres, only if the blood of corruption is not streaming in our veins. To reject people  for a job or to enter a country because of their health issues is the best discrimination. Again some critics would mention our HIV/AIDS victims already,  in the country, and their(critics’)  thought stand on high ground but we must control the influx of more victims because if we don’t as we already did, the statistics of healthy people will sink in the statistics of unhealthy population making everyone sick!
People at the village still don’t understand the disease; they believe that it infects people through sexual contacts because the government has not mobilised or facilitated the mass campaigns to create awareness as far as in the remotest villages.
The NGOs reach not the villages because of either insecurity or bad roads, so our people are still sharing razor blades, needles(normal needles and the knitting ones), they involve in physical confrontations where they are vulnerable to humans’ bites or clawing therefore spreading the diseases.

Our government must do the following: the government must entice thousands of South Sudanese graduates in abroad by providing the best hospitality and reasonable wages/salaries for them. This must come after every dust of our internal conflicts settle; this where the government can send graduates to the Bomas to work by providing remote areas allowances.

The government must invest in education and industrial revolution. If the government is serious about the corruption in the country, then corruption would be dead by now because the government affords to contract Americans or Chinese to build schools or factories without handing cash to officials.
These tangible gifts can kill corruption; however, if we still run after Chinese because they give cash instead of infrastructures, then we will keep crying in hands of bullies. The government must hire the best teachers for nurseries, primary and high schools because the best foundations(nursery, primary and high schools)  support the best buildings(colleges and universities).
The government must send the  brightest students to best universities in the Western countries. WUSC ( World University Service of Canada) program has done enough to us; the software programmers, geologists, scientists, poets/writers, economists and accountants  play cards or video games in jobs for sustainability, their expertise can rocket us to the moon in terms of development if we look after them.

MDJ, I retire here.
Thanks for your letter; it worth reading
Yrs. Kur Wel Kur.

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