Col. Bakosoro: Don’t be outwitted.

By: Dr. Peter Adwok Otto.

Your Excellency governor-elect of Western Equatoria state, from the statements you were heard to have uttered in Juba about rejoining the SPLM, if many people around you are passively pressurizing you to go back, no matter how the language is polite or appealing, you better not make that mistake, because this is a bate to hook you out from the gracious achievement endowed upon you by God.

Please distance yourself as not much had been altered by the SPLM. You touched the arch of history as you escaped forgery of your results of election by the skin of your teeth. It is by God’s will that the honest NEC of western Equatoria refused the game of rigging. If you go back to the SPLM at this juncture in time, the most likely scenario which will ensue is, You will be subjected to punitive measures in accordance with the party’s regulations.

By parties’ regulations, your post will fall vacant by virtue of joining another party(as you went into elections as an independent). This post will be immediately occupied by the next contestant by votes, and that is Nunu who has the privilege of boosting as SPLM proper. For reason she was their choice for governorship, You will have easily solved the issue they failed secure. After your punitive board had made sure you are out, they will accept your new membership without a military title(not to be like George Athor), i.e. you will be stripped of your military rank and become an ordinary member of SPLM and mostly you will be marginalized.

You ought to read between the lines with regard to the statement SG of SPLM. If you go back to SPLM, you will have betrayed aspirations of your people. After all why did you venture as an independent? Has all that SPLM done on people reversed, had the killing of police officers been investigated and the culprits brought to book? Some people argue that Bakosoro will get no cooperation from a SPLM dominated cabinet in WES. This is not a prudent idea and lacks clear art of thinking. Firstly, SPLM is not a cohesive party, thus you are likely to have majority in your cabinet those with concurrent ideas as yours and are careful about the state’s well fare those who can keep the integrity of the people, those who are ready to observe the human rights in the state, those who will be law abiding and keep malpractices at bay, those who will help you protect law imposters, those who will not condone the killing of police officers.

If you fail to secure support or backing from Juba it will appear like an act of sabotage and the people of WES will not fail to see that as they will be debated in SSLA by your representatives assuming they were not brought through elections rigging. After all this is federal system and Juba is not supposed to control the states on day to day affairs, nor should it(GOSS) get 90% of the resources while the states where the people of the south mostly live get only 10%. If the central government in GOSS continues with corruption in employment based on tribal affiliations and nepotism, it is the duty of the SLAA to reject people imposed on the state. There are issues which Juba will have a say like the army foreign policies but not the employment of clerks local policemen who should essentially be from local people. Thus you should reject any officials not transferred through civil services. Your people who elected others can not impeach you so long as you work hard to realize their aspirations

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