Mading Akueth: Fierce Competition for Government’s Recognition in South Sudan
5 min readBy Michael Mading Akueth, Juba
March 2, 2015 (SSB) — We, the south Sudanese in our totality brought the independent of this country and government into power whether by bullet or ballot. I’m sure everyone has participated in away. Of course like the football match there are those players who always contributed more than other players in the field but if they win as a team they all celebrated their victory despites individual contribution levels in the field.
We could also see the fans and coach jumping up so high in celebration for victory. We cannot exclude them from the success history and they are surely part of it.
This is the fact which our people should embrace if we want our country to be peaceful. We must know that there are those who had contributed to the freedoms and liberties we are enjoying together today in many different ways according to the gifts which God who is omniscient had given them. The farmer knows very well that he can labour so hard with his family but he may not necessary be the one to get the bigger share of the harvests.
Indeed, the history taught us that the more you sacrifices the less you benefited. We deeply know in our hearts that there are families whose descendant line is cut off during the liberation of this country and who have not benefited from milk and honey which is flowing in this country and they could not excluded or levels other citizens as less government supporters.
They are always the voices that call in despairs and discouragement like John the baptized that repent and get baptize in the name of good governance, rules of law and human rights for our country which has killed our fathers, mothers and brothers to be peaceful and stable. Peace is good and we must adapt the basic principles which I have mentioned above in order to be peaceful.
In 1987 the red army was a united entity which sole goal was to acquire quality education for rebuilding and development of post-conflict Sudan. Sometime I wonder whether we are really doing the very reason we were taken to Ethiopia and beyond.
In Ethiopia Refugee camp, I was in group nine under the leadership of Duot Alaak and I remember, Dr. John Garang emphasized this vision in many meetings with us that there are clear division of labour in SPLM/A there are those who were tasked to liberate the country and those who were being equipped to rebuild it.
In this division of vision we were equal members of the movement contributing to our collective success with a clear sense of direction so we were not competing with each other.
In the contemporary post-conflict South Sudan immediately after CPA and independent, there are group of youth elites who feel that there are more government supporters than others. They have established networks to tarnish other loyal government supporters’ names with lies and hatred messages so that they can either get some handouts or good jobs.
They are well organized and you can find them in all communities in South Sudan. You can find them among Nuers, Dinkas and Equatoria doing the best games they are known for; excluded others patriotic youths from the government which they have fought hard to establish. They simply level other innocent youths as rebels, betrayers and disobedience to the systems.
I wonder at some point; what is the actual cause of this competition? Why someone who does not even pay taxes to the government does feels he supports the government more than him who is paying taxes? Why do someone who is doing nothing to alleviate suffering of innocents South Sudanese feel he support the government more than him/her who is working daily to contribute for national building through service delivery in the communities?
I think it is good for us all to know that teacher, nurse and kiosks attendants who woke up very early in the morning to do his/her work is a government serious supporters than him who doing nothings to support the government. We don’t have any reason for us just to call him names because he/she is perceive to be not more supporting the government. He is supporting the government in his little way which we should appreciate.
We must know that nations are build by inclusivity and integration. We cannot allow few interest-blindfold youths to create division that is unnecessary among the communities because there is no loyal-barometer to gauge who is more government loyalists than others.
We are all government and SPLM/A supporters and there is no one who should contemplate on his/her mind that he owns this SPLM/A government. It is all our government both for those who are given chances to serve and those who are waiting to serve.
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