Gov’t’s failure to perform its duties and adhere to the social contract is fueling rebellion in South Sudan
4 min readA response to John Deng Yol’s article, “Rewarding rebellion is killing the morale and professionalism of our national army.”
By Simon Garang, Kampala, Uganda
December 6, 2015 (SSB) —- Great piece of intellectual thought John Deng Yol. However, John, you got to remember that there is nothing anathemic in launching a rebellion or rebelling against a government that had failed to perform its duties and adhere to the core requirements of governance social contract between the governs and the governors.
Read John Locke Second Treaties entirely. You will find that governments have no moral, ethical and divine authority or grounds to rule over anyone rather than to advance the best interests of every individuals under their rules and should governments failed to do so, then sovereign individuals and in their associations have divine, moral and legal rights to rebel against governments to bring about changes in the system entirely or in parts. People are entitled by God to do so peacefully and politically and/or violently.
It’s the deviations of governments from their core objectives/functions that gave rise to the creation of governments that spawns rebellions especially those violently repressive governments which provides no legal civil means of expressing dissents and displeasure with the government policies.
Given the above scenarios, when governments have been found guilty or are on the wrong side of the truth, then there is no other options for governments rather than to rewards rebellions by bowing down to their demands. These happened historically, it happened in our lives times worldwide and we did one between North and South Sudan.
That is the first instance and the second instance for rewarding rebellions is when the very claims rebellions are actually the sitting government’s fifth columns of implants to disturb certain regions for the political gains of sitting governments. Governments’ own coverts operations to terrorize, subdue and drag behind certain regions of their country for political gains of the sitting leaders. In such a scenarios, returning implant rebels can be rewarded for doing what their masters wanted.
In the case of the SPLA absorbing and integrating other armed groups, that is a long failed experiment as you know the government had over a period of ten years intentionally worn down the morale of the experienced solders, NCOs and officers in order to weaken the original SPLA and to supplant it with tribal militias only loyal to the president rather than the constitution and the country.
Hence, the concept of a national army with national vision is a long dead idea with the patriotic SPLA. What remains are tribal new recruits militiamen who are usually sand-witched with older officers from the former mother SPLA to make them appears as if they are real.
The only viable options that remains if we are to have a non-politicized, non tribalized and constitutionally loyal SPLA is totally overhauls all those tribally loyal sections of the SPLA from inside or from all rebellions and drive everybody to the boot camps for re-inspiration, redirections and recommission.
The SPLA is so confused like the SPLM and probably more confused than the SPLM. Hence; it’s time to reboot the SPLA and start afresh or the entirely of doing its wrong over and over again amounts to insanity.
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