Political sycophancy: A painful lesson young citizens should avoid!
5 min readBy Emmanuel Ariech Deng, Juba, South Sudan
May 21, 2016 (SSB) — Some political analysts were disgusted to see Mayardit and Machardit moving elegantly on the same red carpet calling each other brothers ready to work for unity, forgiveness, healing, humanitarian delivery and economic reform in their pledged speeches. None of them has mentioned what can be done to the grief-stricken families especially those that were badly affected by departed humankind. This is the forgiveness we are now talking about, the reconciliation we have to advocate, the Compromise Peace Agreement (CPA2) at our doorsteps. After we lost our dear ones for no apparent reasons, the praises to sing at the moment is nothing else than peace, reconciliation, healing and memorable forgiveness.
The agonies of the aftermath have taught us unforgettable lessons of being sycophants to empty promises, preaching of water to drink wines, and the development that did not take place with available billions of dollars between 2006-2012. As we recalled the Freedom Hall tension that turned into violent in December 2013, the J1 has claimed the red carpet historical footsteps of the two big men in April 26, 2016. We are yet to witness the performances of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU), let us hope it doesn’t turn out to be of more power-sharing debate instead of restoring peoples’ hope on the political players and the expected results towards the vulnerable groups from the country resources and the donation from lucrative nations. The USA has so far announced 86 million USD assistance to South Sudan following the exaggerated arrival of SPLM-IO Leader to Juba as we leaned back to see other nations do the same for humanitarian emergencies and economic recovery.
Lack of job creation, corruption, nepotism and institutional weakness in both government and organizations is a result attributed to sycophancy in which many of sycophants are academic bankrupts and tribal mercenaries who are interested in the status quo and remained stumbling blocks for institutional reforms and systematic processes of acquiring a job or political career. Having crowned school dropouts, secondary school certificate holders and doctored certificates, Gogrial State tops the list of incredible academic bankruptcy among some high profile executives trailing other States in effective service delivery.
It is actually a disrespect to Gogrial academics’ sons and a contemporary system which will automatically contribute to failure of those avenues as it continues to encourage more of the same calibers citing the grounds on which their uneducated counterparts have succeeded and national building remain to be pushed onto generations over generations. The unprecedented situation has to continue untouchable and supported by their sycophants. Nobody can try them and if tried, war can break out any time soon to avoid job loose.
The rest of the people have to live by their monotonous ideas or else join their mafia of sycophancy. Others with different views are branded wrong with immediate subsequent threats, the only knowledge and argument the illiterate sycophants have to put across. The nature and term limits are forgotten and anything new has to be either a rebellion or signing of an agreement. It is a politics of no prediction to some uncertainties where we cannot easily say elections will be conducted in 2018. Who knows, may be the parties before 2018 will again disagree; -with two separate armies and two army Chiefs of Staff in one Country-only God can say no at this helter-skelter.
To me, it is unbelievable and democratically impossible for any of those to loose election and accepts the outcome. So sycophancy will finish off the citizens to the benefits of the perpetrators. Let us embark our support to vision-oriented leadership than tribal-oriented leadership to spare our country development space for the welfare of the next generation to which everybody shall be beneficiary of the positive results rather than again plunge young uneducated and educated citizens into the skirmishes which could be more devastating compared to 2013-2016 nightmare.
The unintelligence of our today’s youth to become followers of no clear objectives or visionless to the event, resulted into consequential bloodsheds of our fellow South Sudanese in the international battle grounds such as that of Yemen and own country of domicile. Leadership styles must be something better than just blood business, something better than retaining a position, better than acquiring wealth and something better than senseless killings of innocent citizens where at the end of it all, perpetrator (s) pleads for forgiveness as they enjoy. Forgiveness how many times now! Yesterday and today you do the same, today and tomorrow again the same, tomorrow and the next day you repeat the same, don’t you think the same thing overly repeated can make the word “forgiveness” loose its meaning!
Being skeptical to sycophancy and its consequences, is that it may develop to dictatorship, trouble-making type of leadership, militia groups or political mafia organizations and overall failure to judge the aspirants on the stage based on objectivity and better ideas of running a country. Youth should avoid being sycophants and stage the advocacy for change, rule of law, institutional reforms, fight for corruption, development and adherence to democratic principles. Dead sycophants would totally agree with me and acknowledge my contribution of this piece as truth (black & white) if they were to live again but the living ones will be sad and not interested to read this article of telling the truth.
The fact is, we have to live by the truth and truth will set us free, give us chance for education, develop our country, bring love to one another and promote trust among ourselves and friends. Otherwise, I remain your contributor for issues of common concern. The views expressed in this article reflect the writer opinion on 2013-2016 crises and the unpredictable future of the ethnic based politics.
The author is a cognoscente and can be reached via ariechemmanuel2015@gmail.com
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