A hungry population is an angry population (part 2)
By Jacob Ngong Ngong, Nairobi, Kenya
June 15, 2016 (SSB) — Hunger leaves depressed, discourage and defeated people at the mercy of any dictator who some along with the promises (solid or hallow) that hold their hope together. Hunger is one piece of a complex interrelated social ills. It is linked intricately to global economics, political and social power structures, mode of development and consumption population dynamic and social bias. It’s also linked not only with poor national, economics performance but also with unequal distribution of resources and political structure that render poor people powerless weather in democracy or in dictatorship.
Mustering the political will to make policies that fight hunger should have been our top priority if our government wanted to fight hunger in the country. Setting of strong public constituencies that monitor CDF enacting public policies that foster economic growth accompanied by decreasing income inequality, poor and hungry people lacking political clout become more marginalized especially in war affected areas. Despite the fact that we have not been economically stable since the beginning of creation the war that has started in 2013 is the source of service human suffering that is beyond description in south Sudan. Most of the victims of this conflict are innocent civilians not combatants.
It has slow or stop food production, food instruments were plundered and used as an instrument of war, crops cycle are, interrupted, seeds and breeding livestock, are consumed in desperation and children suffered a permanent damaged as a result of insufficient food because food can have an implication for child is physical and mental health academic achievement and future economic prosperity. Consequently in South Sudan, the children of the affected population are facing greatest obstacles in reaching their fullest potential.
The future of our country lies in our children once hunger threaten the future of a child it threaten the future of the country as well. South Sudanese are tired of senseless war. We need change that may benefits the nation not individual as you have seen most of the rebellion that claim for change end up benefiting on person and that not what we need as a nation.
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