Dear our people, I dream of a peaceful, stable and prosperous South Sudan
5 min readBy David Matiop Gai, Juba, South Sudan
October 19, 2016 (SSB) — Our big family is at all cost in dividend. Why can’t we look after it for now? Probably failure comes by wrong dreams as six leaders think at once to be leaders for one post at the same time caused divisions, and opinions distinct in directions; maybe eventually lack of nationalism approved by proudness of south Sudanese leaders against their own people by valued chair most important than civil populations .
I don’t mean division of states or people, I mean divisions from hearts, desires, self-ambitions, opinions, concepts, ideologies, believes, selfishness, greediness, political thoughts and those political high figures that contributed to physical fighting in South Sudan and thoughts of nation destruction, loose of lives, loose properties, and all sources of crimes committed in the war, but still I have a dream for a peaceful South Sudan because the state of wars and destructions don’t lived forever. There after come a peaceful South Sudan.
Dreams, goals, aims, missions, and desires are all things we fought for to bring about a big interest house we called today South Sudan among the League of Nations, and these are things most of us know when we were working toward success of our liberation struggle.
Those dreams have gone away with Dr. John Garang and his comrades who have perished in all valleys and swarms of South Sudan, but we those who are living some remained with us since we were parts of the vision and mission of SPLM. Our dream was to liberate ourselves from Arabs and build a peaceful state from zero levels to its highest demands and blessings of its promises, and not to fight ourselves.
It was last month when I got annoyed at myself with South Sudanese for ill intentions of singling out their fellow South Sudanese men, children, women, and elderly people on the roads while executed tragic death based on tribal identity, and ethnicity. The founders of this nation fought against racism, colour, gender, religion, culture, and discriminations, and we left Khartoum because of such acts.
This can cause me to repeat myself again the same statement, because I need a peaceful South Sudan, whereby if I want to sleep at the roadside at night, maybe my enemy should be snakes and wild animals but not my fellow South Sudanese as now, but we have many reasons to live as South Sudanese in a peaceful state, because wars don’t reign forever.
First, I dream of a peaceful nation and the secret of living is giving us hope, and we dream as a nation to have something worth to share with others, inspirations, and the meaning of living in our land is the great contribution we did by sacrificed our lives during the 21 years of struggle in Sudan civil war.
Second, I dream of a peaceful South Sudan whereby the president of the republic of South Sudan can comes from any tribe of sixty four tribes in the country. It doesn’t matter whether it will take hundred years to meet the goal of demo-democracy, still equality, freedom, free, and fair election, and rule of law are the pillars we must dream of democracy because it makes a good society- and that is the right society we were been dreaming for it.
The third point is, it is better for us chasing our dream the way we were chasing it at the very beginning. Chasing our dreams will develop our courage. I mean the courage we have during bush time was fuelling amazing success in our lives to follow our dreams and exercised that courage to achieve an independence state South Sudan. We were fighting for all South Sudan societies. We fought the war on behave of all South Sudanese who were not in the battle fields in Southern Sudan. It was our morale rights to do it as a free of charge to others.
The fourth thing was that dreamers like us grow to be independent, and of course we have independence South Sudan. We have to learn that we can make difference all by ourselves. We fought not to destroy ourselves, nor do we fight to allow lawlessness invaded our behaviours. We fought the war to free ourselves and build a nation of inclusive societies.
The fifth statement is, I dream of a peaceful South Sudan where oil money will be turn to boost on agriculture and agro-industries for the true welfare of our people. In fact if South Sudanese leave grumbling over seats, and seek social development, people will forget stories they were been in for a long times.
The sixth point is, South Sudan is bigger than those who are destroying it. It is a nation for generations and thousands of generations to come. The current generation will be buried in South Sudan, and leaving behind them descendants of continuous living societies.
Therefore we are not supposed to make it a war zone, or a battle field by eliminate lives of our fellow human being. It is unacceptable, it is a curse, and our people s lives are crying before God, “why do they killed us”, and it is a judgement awaiting until the judge follow it cause by means of God himself revenge, meanwhile no longer human being tried. So let us reverse promises of SPLM missions and vision to the nation respect and dignity. God bless South Sudan.
The author is a co-founder of mental health care organization. He can be reach at david.matiopgai@gmail.com.
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