The reunion of kleptocrats averts war, but enhances looting!
5 min readWhen they disagree, they kill us; when they unite they loot our resources — Nhial Bol Akeen
By Sunday de John– Nairobi, Kenya.
November 14, 2015 (SSB) —- The 35 months old dreadful conflict in South Sudan is coming to a halt with return of the top rebel leadership to the country. The conflict is getting attenuated with return of warlords for more loots.
There isn’t anything laughable in the current reunion, the mantra is obvious, reunion of kleptocrats isn’t a salvage to the demeaned innocent South Sudan populace.
The reunion is offering one more chance as a ploy by the clique to reaccumulate power, loot the public and reignite new war to rejuvenate their power quest and permanently the country shall remain in the status quo.
Anguish shall be the order of a country stabbed where it hurts most. A grantee for more years of looting spree is at hand. The warring parties, former detainees, internal wranglers and the naysayers have acquired what they have yearned for with even engraved inpunity.
They are once again as separate entities embedded in the heart of the nation. Their dominance isn’t wanning, they have revitalized their zeal in ransacking the nation.Their major interest is to fastidiously advance what they know best, marauding and looting the country for its precious resources in the expense of the poor.
Innocent blood spilled during the 35 months old conflict isn’t significant, death of poor people according to our renowned kleptocrats is a non-issue, insignificant indeed as no arrangements were made to even help keep the children of the war victims drag on with the tussles of this hard life, at least temporarily.
It is a common sense that active war will be averted, indeed that shall in turn foster a conducive environment for self-enrichment.
Despite reunion, despicable criminal offences have been and shall continuously be inflicted on innocent victims as clearly depitcted by death unforetold that was consequentially witnessed and however with no enumerated penalties.
There is no heart that aches for the pain of the poor. The heroes and heroines of recent war aren’t ashamed by their despicable art of crafting the percentages of their so-called transitional government.
The percentages on power sharing stands at 53%, 33%, 7% and 7% for the government, rebels, former detainees and other political forces respectively.
There is no any allocation of any percentages, even 0.5% to the deceased and war victims. These mutilated and unsatisfying peace arrangements stand to confirm that arrangements after war do not consider the magnitude and the impact of war herself on her victim, rather it has and will always reaffirm that her fruits are solely for her perpetrators.
There is no peace but perpetrators burying their hatchet, cementing the torn fabric and desiring to advance what they are good at: personal enrichment, pomposity and what not.
There is no national agenda and either of the groups mentioned has been fully tested, their capacities are a common knowledge in terms of services.They have delivered near zero services in their former huge capacities. What would they offer to a country they shamelessly screwed off? Of course nothing!
More wrangles shall continue staining their forged relationship and the differences amongst them shall widen with greed for resources catalysing the rift.
Inspite of enforced peace, one sees no hopes, nothing but continuous permutation of people’s suffering is in the brew. Heartless political chauvanists are still soaking thier hands with blood of innocent victims all in the name of power.
There is nothing beneficial coming from power corridors, interestingly, it is the wide economic gap between the poor and the rich that shall be exponentially growing as it remains uninterrupted.
The case in question is all but clouding of any development in the interest of few individuals that only want wealth.
This fact is clear, lions urinate on their tails, spray the herds and when the herds smell the urine, they smell a lion and hence opt to disperse for safety and it is the confusion brought about by the dispersion and the fact that the herds would be scared that would give the lion a chance to grab a catch. Wars initiated by kleptocrats are meant to scare and confuse the public and then loot them in the name of war.
Partially alluding to the fact that Kiir’s leadership has failed, it is also advisable to reject the common connotation by social media writers that “Kiir has failed” and indeed something those fighters or writers ought to note is that Kiir was failed, he has not fail. His failures come from the very people that claim purity.
Riek, former detainees and many other naysayers have singly and collectively failed him. In his then presumed quest for good South Sudan, Kiir had appointed most of the aforementioned people either as ministers or deputy ministers including Riek. However, they opted to stab him where it hurts most.
By so doing, they refused to work for the good of all South Sudanese. Instead of formulating mechanisms and policies centered at development enhancement they cheerfully sat back to device means of removing Kiir including use of excessive force and therefore subjecting the country to underdevelopment, abject poverty and destruction.
The hopes for better South Sudan are intact despite torrential political waves of high frequencies geared towards looting of the national resources and the status quo therein.
Till then yours truly, Mr. Teetotaler!
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