Personal observations: President Salva Kiir is living Symbol of 21 year Liberation struggle
5 min readBy David Aoloch Bion
Some South Sudanese are sick of fallacy, stereotype, egocentrism and prejudices. As the result of these intellectual sicknesses, they are blind to see white from black, truth from lie. Above all, they do not differentiate between the truth telling and sycophancy.
The truth , they don’t want to hear is the praise that President Salva Kiir deserves as the ‘’Symbol of Liberation’’ .if you mention this truth and because of playing politics , they call you a sycophant .
Naturally, Salva Kiir is a good man. I first saw him in Ashwa Displaced Camp in 1993, When a Dinka Bor man shot dead two Dinka Bare el gazal youth . The killing of these two men almost provoke a dangerous communal fighting between Bor and Bare el gazal . All us know Dinka Bare el gazal are half lawless people .but Cdr Kiir quelled down the anger . This was the first achievement of Kiir I witnessed.
In 1996, the enemies of liberation struggle created a myth,’’ Dinka Bor was born to rule and Dinka Bare el gazal was born to die in front line’’ . This issue almost caused division among the SPLM/A but Cdr Kiir stepped in and chided Dinka Bare el gazal leaders who were fanning that meaningless mythology . This was second achievement of Salva Kiir , I witnessed
In reality , Salva Kiir contributed 80% to the success of Dr . John Garang in term of human capital . When Kerbino Kuanyin Bol rebelled against the SPLM/A in 1980s , Salva Kiir stood with John Garang and this gave Garang upper hand , otherwise, if Salva Kiir would have joined hands with Kerbino Kuanyin , SPLM/A would have not succeeded under John Garang as we have seen with the independence of South Sudan today , because majority of SPLA soldiers were Dinka Bare el gazal , however , as the result of division , they were divided between Kiir and Kuanyin and Kiir commanded more than Kuanyin. This was his third achievement of Salva Kiir I heard of
In 1995, when the issue of ‘’Dinka Bare el Gazal are majority in frontline and Dinka Bor have abandoned the war and resorted to business in Agoro and Koboko in Uganda ‘’ , Salva Kiir came in and rebuked Bol Madut of that .
In fact , Bol Madut challenged Kuol Manyang Juuk in Nimule to go with him to Ashwa contention to count , how many Dinka Bor soldiers are there in frontline .
This prompted Cdr Kuol Manyang Juuk to mobilize only Dinka Bor men in May 1995 at Nimule Corridor but Kiir came in and stopped that tribal or clannish mobilization of soldiers. This was the four achievement of Salva Kiir I witnessed.
In 1983 , when SPLM/A was formed , Salva Kiir was one of the five pantheons who sat and formed it .And, these pantheons are Dr John Garang de Mabior , Kerbino Kuanyin Bol , William Nyuon Bany , Salva Kiir and Arok Thon Arok . This was fifth achievement of Kiir I heard of.
Therefore , I can say Salva Kiir is the living symbol of the liberation struggle For that reason , Kiir must be respected because his achievements outweigh his failures , he should not be rubbished like a dog as they are doing in name of false reform agenda.
For above reasons I tell you ‘’Salva Kiir is living symbol of liberation struggle ’’ what is sycophancy about it ? Is he not living symbol? Has he not achieved what am saying? If you are jealous of Kiir achievements , then be it . .
Mind you , Salva Kiir contributed 80% to success of John Garang , Salva Kiir stood with John Garang 100% when Riek was against Garang , Therefore , the degree of support Kiir gave to Garang , the same degree of support to be given to Kiir by all South Sudanese
Mind you , Dinka Bare el gazal are loose and lawless people, if Kiir was not controlling them in 21 year war , they would have destroyed the SPLM/A long time ago . They would have abandoned SPLM/A as Riek Machar and his lawless loyalists abandoned SPLM,A and went to Khartoum in 1994 .
Imagine in Yei Crisis in 2003, if it were not Kiir controlling themselves , those of Garang Mabil would have started the fighting .
Unlike Riek Machar , who failed to control Brigadier Lam and Brigadier Kuac of Tiger Division , who started the December 15 fighting in Juba .
In fact , Salva Kiir is RIGHT MAN but he has no tongue to express his RIGHTEOUSNESS , he is a victim of prejudices , Because of prejudices , if he is not careful , he would be like two former Africans presidents in the history . These are Presidents Milton Obote of Uganda and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana .
President Obote was the one who declared Uganda Independence from Britain in 1963 , but he was overthrew from power and died in exile.
President Nkrumah was the one who declared Ghana Independence e but in the name of false reform , he was overthrew and died in exile .
This is what fake reformers are trying to do in South Sudan . First, they have assassinated Kiir character in their white, negative propaganda. so Kiir is now evil and they are angels . Secondly, they are now pushing him out to die in exile like Obote and Nkrumah .
However , ‘’What goes around, come around’’ , if the so-called reformers were not the one who destroyed South Sudan with Kiir for 8 good years ,blessed are them but if they contributed to the failure of South Sudan with Kiir in one way or another then they will also taste the fruit of curse of their contributions to the failure of South Sudan . Mark my words.
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