By Amol De Mabior, Liverpool, the UK
January 28, 2016 (SSB) — No doubt, that the level of hypocrite amongst president Kiir’s inner circle these days in Juba is unbelievable. In fact, the old days comrades are really making use of Lonnie Lee Best’s hypocrite formula, which states that the degree of hypocrisy one possesses is equal to the absolute value of the difference between their beliefs and actions.
Mathematically it reads: HYPOCRITES = BELIEFS- ACTIONS
Surely, the elites are using the above formula at their very best to confuse our people and set them against each other on tribal line for their (SPLM-IGers) survival. And indeed, they are managing the situation well since whatever decision they wrongly take, extremely divides our people, at our watch. What a tragic?
Imagine the head of our nation and the chairman of the ruling party had this to state during the closing ceremony of the recent SPLM Extra-ordinary Convention that:
- He is ready for the full implementation of the peace agreements, while at the same time, resists to revoke the establishment order number 36, arguing that it has to be sorted out by the proponents (the advocates for 10 states) themselves versus the proponents of the newly established 28 states.
- The re-unification of the SPLM should be based on full implementation of the Arusha agreement, while at the same time he intentional allowed the inclusion of the same clauses, which were the cause of the current crisis into the basic documents. And by the way, why is the SPLM general secretariat in Juba reluctant to release the new versions of the said basic documents if the Arusha Agreement is fully incorporated?
- The SPLM IO should order their allies (the rebels) in the whole of the Equatoria to respect the cease fire or else he will chase them like rats. Instead of using persuasive and reconciliatory language here as the occasion required, Kiirdit all of a sudden went banana.
- The common malpractices of forming tribal associations/councils act as immediate catalyst for promoting tribalism, corruption, nepotism and even imposing leaders at the high positions, and it must stop.
But unfortunately, as it is obvious, president Kiir is running the country in accordance to the Jieng Council of Elders ill designed policies. Why would the Jieng Council of elders warn of the war over the new states, if they are not influential in Kiir’s day-to-day decisions?
So yes, the self-centered politicians and liberators, have already tribalized our country, and we seem to be on the highway to hell.
The reality is: The Peace agreement has made a big progress in the wrong direction, and there is urgent need for some people (the guarantors of the ARCISS) somewhere to jump in and redirect the implementation of the Compromise Peace Agreement in the right direction in order to have real sustainable peace and reconciliation in our country.
In closing, allow me to rephrase JM Kariuki’s powerful statement that; South Sudan is now an independent country of a few millionaires and millions beggars. There is no independence in replacing the Arab settlers with black ones; Deng for Osman, Malual for El Sadig, Wani for Mohammed.
It takes more than a national anthem to create a nation. Hence, the speech of our president Salva Kiir Mayaardit was not centered on the importance of lasting peace and the re-unification of the SPLM, but it was rather a usual whited sepulcher.
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