Dr. Riek Machar should accept peace as an inherent trait!
By Sunday de John, Rumbek, South Sudan
April 30, 2016 (SSB) —- I hope peace is now amidst. I hope more suffering is no longer what South Sudanese should be worried about. I hope there is no much to worry about. Indeed peace is a necessity. Vital that we all want it.
However, the price with which it has been bought is cheap that it wouldn’t have taken this long to come. To buy peace, something called First Vice Presidency was the prime requirement, then ten ministries and a separate army with Chief of Staff of its own.
However, the only expensive thing I have encountered with this mess of the South Sudanese leadership is, the so-called First Vice Presidency is the most expensive commodity I ever knew. All the lives lost, property destroyed, torn national fabric and the tribal jingoism that have become the bane of our national coexistence are the cost paid for the First Vice Presidency to be achieved. Too bad.
Dr. Riek wanted to retain a post he lost on counts of insubordination. He wanted to remain in power by writing history of a sacked but recalcitrant murderer that revitalises his worth by allowing the death of many innocent victims.
I am worried that peace isn’t at home because the government so formed is callous and who as well be described as vogus as Chinese Spare parts. The government is a reflection of the kleptocratic face. It is a time bomb.
Opposing parties shall never make a single decision for the good of all South Sudanese. It is viewed that a tussle shall widened the gap and create more misgivings and possibly a recurrence of bad war.
Who is Riek to believe in Kiir whom he forced through international community to accept his return to the government he was once relieved from? As well, who is Kiir to trust a man who had staged two fierce rebellions against him? Ministers too shall always be defiant to the president on counts of being brought in through an agreement despite the fact that some where involved in theft related cases.
I stand a chance to be corrected, however, the defacto President is Mr. MOGAE. I hope we are save. A retiree from Botswana has been cunningly picked and fixed to handle the affairs of South Sudanese. Too bad.
This can be rephrased that a trusteeship that was mentioned many time is inevitable. What if 16 Kiir’s loyalists cannot agree with Riek’s 10? The four from other political parties and former detainees shall watch like a deer caught in headlights. If they join Kiir’s 16, it would make 20 and the quorum is way above by 23 ministers hence a decision would not be made. Just as it be a waste for the four to join Riek’s. A decision won’t be made and then Festus MOGAE would take the lead. The tie breaker of course would have to do it as required by law.
At stake would be the beneficiaries of the decision to be made. Then bitterness would build up gradually and the sections or factions would revert to their old misdemeanour.
For peace to hold, the so-called brothers (Kiir and Riek ) must kiss and become inseparably a single entity such that room isn’t given to foreign hands.
The troubled South Sudanese shall be again troubled by the kleptocrats that are merely coming back not for service delivery but more loots just to emphasise on Nhial Bol’s analogy.
When Dr. Riek was in the government from 2005, to 2013, he was a flawless Vice President in a flawless government. When he was relieved, he discovered many problems in Kiir’s leadership then went to bush to fight for change which I think has already come with his entrance into the government.
Dr. Riek Ought to know that entering the government isn’t what renders the government flawless. He should as well know that change he wants then shouldn’t just be bringing in your trusted personalities and call it a change.
Whatever comes, let’s accept that peace must be part of us! I hope this serves the day. I hope Riek will peace as part of him.
Till then yours truly, Mr. Teetotaler!
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