WHY “KIIR MUST GO” MAXIM IS JUST BUT A PURE NONSENSE
6 min readBy Brimo Majok Martin
July 21, 2015 (SSB) — The opposition should learn that enough blood spilt, innocent souls maimed and further calls for the government to relinquish power is just deepening the cataracts of mistrust that will plunge the nascent country and the hard earned independent in to even a much more bleaker state.
Legitimate or not, let me beg your forbearance to still pause Rebecca Nyandeng question that even if Kiir have to leave power today and tonight what would Riek do with the power? The opposition leader is obsessed with democratic transformation which to my knowledge needs patient and insight maneuvering and so boycotting of the Sunday 15th December 2013 National Liberation Council (NLC) with his lot which is the genesis of the South Sudanese current menacing civil war was not a good idea. That would have been the forum to push for the different views or better still let it go down in the history under his name that he pushed for the transformation peacefully. Dr. Riek served as vice president for a considerable time where were calls for the federalism that we so dearly talk about today as the call of the South Sudanese people since 1960s? Do we have the alternative process of transferring power here? Our hands are blemished with blood in one way or another and playing holier than thou at this stage is a non-starter.
Postponement of South Sudan general was in the best interest of all the South Sudanese given the context the country is in, it was constitutionally right as the per the provision of the constitution to my understanding. Amendment of the constitution and the extension of the government tenure was also a right step in the right direction as the country was at the brink of the constitutional illegitimacy predicaments. That decision would allow for peace and fertile environment for fair and free election and giving people the chance to decide who to invest their power on.
The supposed June, 2015 general election received enormous condemnation from the opposition and everyone else due to current ragging civil war which is why it was postponed, to me, this is a score in your dart-board, so what else now? This should have been a decision taken by the electoral commission anyway but which is not provided for in the current election Acts and so whose blame is that? What do you expect in the absent of general election?! What else is the better way of transferring power in the absent of election and peace?
False believes that there is a military solution to this futile war are preposterous and would force me to borrow the words of James Copnall as below……..” The SPLA contend Machar’s troops are getting that cross-border backing from Sudan – despite Sudanese denials – and in the Nuer areas of Greater Upper Nile there are plenty who swear by Machar and his forces. Given all these factors it seems improbable that the government will be able to overturn the odds, and put down the rebellion by force.
Yet Machar – given his relatively weak military position, inability to hold onto urban areas, and failure to open a meaningful second front in Equatoria or Bahr el Ghazal – cannot reasonably expect to overthrow President Salva Kiir by force either. Indeed, his troops’ recent thrust towards the Upper Nile oilfields could even be read as a sign of desperation rather than strength: after all, attacking your country’s major economic resource is unlikely to win you any support beyond the tight circle of those already converted to your cause.
One can imagine the consternation when Olony’s forces first began fighting against the SPLA in Malakal, and then seized the town, before beginning their march on the nearby oilfields. Already the recriminations have started within the SPLA. Yet to see Olony as a new and powerful adjunct to Machar’s SPLM-In Opposition is probably a mistake.
Olony, then, is likely to emerge as a third force in an increasingly fractured conflict. He may at times fight against the government and alongside the rebels; but it’s difficult to imagine his followers agreeing to a more permanent alliance with Machar…….” So, the best option is to sign peace as soon as possible and form Government of National Unity (GNU) and save us from the shame, embarrassments and degrading human suffering of this magnitude. Petty prejudices, hates, tribal chauvinism and personalizing South Sudan conflict are dooming us and the future of this great nation. A systematic plan toward peace is what the leaders that care should be hatching rather than the negative conspiracies against these innocent masses.
The recent Arusha SPLM reunification process provided the rare chance and window of hope that peace should be brought to the people first and only then would people of South Sudan be able to use the peace as the flat form on which they would stand and proudly elect their leaders. Recent media rhetoric, harsh media campaigns and propaganda of all sorts is not only an insults and smack on people’s faces but a betrayal of high degree as such.
To me the time is reap for the contraband masterminders of this conflict to pause and ask themselves whether they still have any small sense and shred of tenderness still left in them. The approach of the current conflict from political and military angles in trying to outdo the other one has hit a brick wall and my suggestion is that approaching it from the humanitarian angle will open our eyes to see the suffering of our people and save us a lot of anguish. Too bad there are so many internal and external sadists, not interested in peace but blood of the innocent souls.
Kiir must go aphorism as a favourite song sang by the opposition is deepening the conflict and I advised that the soon to be held peace talk in Addis Ababa would be use wisely as a water to swallow down the bitter pills of our prides, egos and give our peace back to us.
Brimo Majok Martin is a Concerned South Sudanese and be reached at brimomajok@gmail.com #copyrightreserved.
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