IGAD-Plus: Poverty Corrupts Conscious Minds
4 min readBy Deng Lueth Yuang, Canada
August 23, 2015 (SSB) — In this context, poverty is either idealistic or materialistic – lack of ideas or resources to prop up one’s thinking for public acceptance on and participation in national issues.
The pursuit of power to control resources for self-aggrandization corrupts conscious minds. At this moment, South Sudanese people are at the mercy of their ‘gods’, regional and international players.
It applies, in essence, to the following vectors:
To which country does its leaders and citizens import everything from stones, tomatoes, beef to personal secretaries? If that is the case, as you might think so, the plan is –
~ as stones are in Eastern Equatoria state – build factories there;
~ the meat is in all three regions of South Sudan – buy local beef;
~ the best ‘brains’ who are able to compete internationally with children of the well-to-dos with no dictation to where they came from for their dreams are very valid are there….
So, what do such very humiliating leaders of Junub Thudan want? Tell me – for sure….
If it is true that the Bantustans and Semito-Arabic Africans are against a Nilotic nation coming of age; a case such as this, if South Sudan, whose ruling and majority population are of a Nilotic origin, then these leaders must lead the way, not the talk for we are filled with misleadership meandering attitude.
Sooner rather than later, Kiir’s regime and/or Jubocrats are coming down before 2 September, 2015 of Pres Kiir’s 15 day peace ultimatum signing deadline.
It is considerably observable that most of us are aware of those hiatus historical moments of liberation war. But one thing stands out clear, that thing, which will make the regime of the day to learn the bitter truth of leadership parametrics – clear conscions.
Yes, you are going before 2018. It is true. We, people like me et al., are coiling our tails, to restore our African Nilotic dignity, not the national sovereignty per se. It is a lost cause already. Too little, too late.
Here are things that are letting South Sudan leadership goes down so soon, for it has squandered and misappropriated its best opportunities beforehand:
1. When Dr. Riek was calculating his move against pres Kiir for 2015 general elections, did you guys analyze his trend records since 1984 when he joined SPLA/M as a junior recruit?
2. You know Kiir is a military leader, not a political, intellectual, academic or a diplomat;
3. You put up individual wealth and power attainment and retainment at the expense of public socio-economic development;
3. You have no public think tanks to work over your work documents, or the so-called consultations — only council of ministers, lobby groups and JCE among others whose ideology are vested;
4. If IGAD or Igad Plus is a problem, then highlight peaceful peace modulus or a credible calculus widely accepted for peace and prosperity to reign over the innocent souls of the Sudd.
Not just simple talks that “we are guerilla movement, and we know how to fight in Jonglei/Jungle” — that is where war started and ended any way;
4. You are maiming your enlightened kinsfolks for criticizing you;
5. You lack economic nationalism – you say you have no foreign reserves, but the truth is you have it. The biggest mistake is you fail to accumulate it internally (failing to promote domestic consumption). You send your salary with the little dollars you have to your kids and families abroad – Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia to be exact.
So, the essence is spelt out clearly – reap the fruits of what you sow. It is a high time to stop thinking of being a ‘gorilla’ movement. You are a sovereign entity. Your actions affect others globally. It affects me, and others on this Earth.
This peace is good in introduction, but it is a sour wound in the end. Protect it till the end.
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