Congratulations: Cde. Peter Lam Buoth Deserves Promotion as Acting SPLM Secretary-General

SPLM must overhaul for a prosperous future

Garang Ater, Juba, South Sudan

Thursday, August 19, 2021 (PW) — Comradeship delight to the leadership under SPLM chairman, President Salva Kiir Mayardit, Political Bureau members, National Liberation Council, National Secretariat, and members of popular syndicated organizations for endorsement.

I am excited about your promotion, and I love to see good things come to a good comrade.

My comradeship delight is to see you being appointed at the helm of SPLM’s top challenging administrative role ever.

Hence, may I encourage you that your full cooperation and focus to give your best will contributes the best in the SPLM leadership niche in the coming days and years.

Dear comrade, your humble beginning began when the SPLM leadership selected you among the interested candidates for the post.

The SPLM memberships taken together, your impeccable nationalistic characters, steadfast loyalty, and academic credentials hoping for the series of administrative and political reforms to be embarked on by your leadership.

The role of SPLM as a political party in financial reform is highly yearning for as the country gears up for transition from dominant to competitive party systems.

The SPLM constitution speaks loud on political parties play a key role in democratic processes.

Therefore, encouraging or gauging SPLM members’ diverse opinions is critical to ensuring participation in political life, the expression of the people’s will, and serving a wide range of functions that will shape the party for the better.

Albeit, to fulfil these functions, political parties, especially SPLM, requires financial resources muscle.

However, if the party’s funding is not properly regulated, this can lead to the abuse of public resources by the incumbent leaders for their sole benefits.

The question of how to adequately fund SPLM and the role that money should play is a particularly vexed issue.

Political party financing is about money’s role in the political sphere, as most African voters listen through their stomachs rather than their ears.

Painstakingly, money is necessary for inclusive democracy and effective governance, allowing candidates and parties to reach out to voters and build long-term political organizations.

However, it can also lead to politicians and parties listening to their donors rather than their voters and to government contracts being awarded to the company that provided the most money during the last election campaign rather than the one with the best bid.

Unregulated or poorly managed money in politics is often considered one of the biggest threats to democracy in Africa, and I wish our party addresses this matter neatly.

The SPLM is more ready to open the political playing field, which is level to all competing political parties.

It is widely recognized that regulatory provisions alone are insufficient. Further, there are limits to effectively regulating SPLM party financing.

This query sheds light on this issue by drawing on examples of transitions from a dominant party system to a multi-party system, which need our party preparedness before being caught off guard in the coming elections.

Moreover, introducing transparency in SPLM party financing can play a key role in reducing corruption and transitioning from a dominant party system to a multi-party system brought by the RTGONU system.

As the party chief Administrator, there is a high need for strong oversight and enforcement mechanisms essential for party administrative overhaul processes.

Create an atmosphere for civil society, the media, and other local actors as allies to garner legislative change support.

Overview of party financing plays a key role in democratic processes.

As SPLM cadres and leadership at large, I wholeheartedly wish you to serve a wide range of functions, such as aggregating and articulating the party’s interests thoroughly.

With a committed SPLM National Secretariat team under your guidance, the party should be headed by developing competing policy proposals that provide voice and choice, selecting candidates for elected offices, organizing legislatures, and coordinating government formation and activities.

Additionally, recruiting, linking leaders, supporters and conducting electoral campaigns if needs arise.

Finally, let me end my message with a big thank you for your steadfast loyalty to SPLM leadership.

As SPLM, let us reap what we sow and let that be only our best for SPLM United Never be defeated slogan.

The author, Garang Ater, is reachable via his email: Garang Ater – atergarang452@gmail.com

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