An open letter to Taban Deng Gai, the 1st Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan
5 min readBy David Matiop Gai, Juba, South Sudan
July 31, 2016 (SSB) — Your Excellency, first able I want to congratulate you for your new assignment in the top leadership of our great nation and appreciated and bless your willingness, and full commitment to solve the chronic political hatred which is always fuel by outsiders to the extent of uncontrolled in the nation.
Dear Excellency, you may have an immediate advisor, or direct and indirect advisors, but due to your positive concern for the future of our beloved great nation at your heart, I would like to add my piece of advice following the rest of South Sudanese citizens who did to you dozens of congratulations before me since you was sworn in as a historical first vice President of the Republic of South Sudan, and a real cause of my writing is an extremely awareness on your legacy from present generations to another incoming generations of this great nation.
As I continue, I heard that you will be leading a high delegation to neighbouring countries and to UN General Assembly to elaborate more light on recent changes in SPLM-IO leadership and your full commitment to the implementation of peace agreement to the resolution of conflict in the Republic of South Sudan.
We citizens have seen good will in you and much concern on your side for our dear lives and future of the nation which we would have expected from former first vice President Dr. Riek Machar to shown at all course but people have different personalities, and he failed to do so.
Excellency, two days back when you appeared on SSBC, the nation has put her hope on your new vision. You are our hope to reverse back the nation to its normalcy, and therefore I advise you once again that take care of South Sudan enemies as you go out of the country to regain international support for the Transitional Government of National Unity, (TGNU). Don’t let enemies of peace outside there buy your unwaving vision and powerful determination for this great nation! Dollars are less than this nation.
You can make money in somebody country but you cannot make country within somebody nation. South Sudan is our nation for pride; we bought it with lives and blood. I encourage you to watch out from those who are sacking our bloods for their benefit. There is consequence behind our blood, whether we killed ourselves, and the reward belongs to planners, I advise.
Your Excellency, there is no problem with South Sudanese who engages to kill themselves constantly, because South Sudanese people are peace loving communities ,and also too much violent when provoked but national resources become a curse through foreign political influence as enacted more aggressive.
Please stand firm and all South Sudanese who love this country to be a paradise state in the heart of Africa will support you in all course for peace with President Kiir, not only SPLM-IO where you took ticket to presidency.
Excellency, South Sudanese need leaders who are not collaborators of their tribal ideologies. We have lost medical doctors, engineers, technocrats, philosophers, psychologists, etc in recent fighting’s who would have benefit South Sudan in development with their professions, but their brain is worsted.
Love for others begin at home, and I quoted your statement during the swearing in ceremony in J1 that, “your mother taught you how to love people and how to work for yourself”. In fact South Sudan need leaders that care for others, because the Bible says, “Do well to others what you expect others to do for you”.
In conclusion, Your Excellency, I am supporting you for your wise decision by not supporting foreign troops intervention because they have oil business plan to destroy our country in the name of helping us, and divide us more and more so that they remain in Juba, and we kill ourselves on tribal lines and the oil plus other mineral resources are looted behind unseen.
If that is the case as it is planned and for the regime by force that we have seen in Libya, Syria, Somalia, Iraq, and other oil producing countries, there was no reason for us we had fought Khartoum to be a free sovereign state, when foreign troops are solution to us than ourselves, and who made peace for us before CPA if we don’t know how to sustain peace among ourselves?
Thank you very much, be an icon for peace, and historical stability in South Sudan.
The author is a co-founder of National Mental Health Care Organization (NMHCO); He holds Bachelor degree in Social Work and Social Administration from SSCUST, Bachelor of Theology from CLT, Bungoma, Kenya/Kalispell, USA, and a fellow researcher. He can be reach at tonggaid551@yahoo.com/davidmatiopgai@gmail.com.
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