Did You Read The Report?

There is a gradual stepping up of the congratulatory messages from different civil servants in Juba these days for SPLM candidates and Salva Kiir for the dubious land slide elections victory with 93%.

Did you read the human rights watch report on the elections in south Sudan? If you didn’t , please hurry up find it and decide on what side of history you have decided to stand. Protecting jobs by condoning the crocket procedures amounts to corruption and unworthiness in the civil services which should have the motto of no fear or favor. The human rights watch report can not be taken for granted as it mirrors the actual practical evaluation from the ground by a neutral organization whose interest is preservation of it credibility. Civil servants have not been asked to support any particular political side otherwise the whole of civil service when politicized, becomes polarized and inefficient.

Those who want to protect their jobs by polishing politicians are off the mark and are unlikely to be very stern and adamant to say no to their ministers on wrong policies which may be in the interest of a minister and not the public. For instance an undersecretary who wants to be known to the president, is seeking for a hard cushion to defy transfer or blackmail his minister in future. Such an undersecretary might be lured into signing contracts that are bad for the people if he secures being in the good books of the president or his minister. But such an undersecretary wants to publicize him/her self that they know the president and likely to be a bully boy in the ministry. Appointments of top ranking civil officers should be meritocratic through panels that might warrant parliamentary approval.

Did you read the human rights watch? If not run find it out, read it and know how the elections in south Sudan were. What then is that which make you enthusiastic by wasting public funds congratulating the president who did not cleanly pass the elections? Even if he did, is it the concern of your office as a civil servant? Else you could be easily regarded an accomplice to voting ordeal and not worth the honor of a keen civil servant, but a hibernating political supporter of a party that will not execute policies in the interest of the public, or could easily influence projects of the president or a minister.

Another example of a weak politicized civil servant(undersecretary), “ is diverging a planned health center earmarked for Akobo, but because of the interest of his minister who wants the health center shifted to Chuiebat in lakes for the nearing elections”, such an undersecretary will comply with the gesture of the minister, and the people lose the chance of the much needed health facility. No civil servant is justified advertising his interest in a minister or president in Newspapers, append his signature and affix the official seal especially when the incoming minister or president is about to; through fraudulent elections. If Such an advertisement of self interest is inevitable, that should be in private code without the title or official seal, but only your name as a citizen. Did you the H.R.W. report?, If not ,hurry find it. If you want to write a congratulatory message after that is up to you as all will know that you are an accomplice to the ordeal as many were. If you read the report and still wants to congratulate who ever, it is your right, but please admit that you are not a part of the democratic transformation process nor the change that had engulfed and direly needed by the people of south Sudan.

Did you read the H.R.W. report? Have you decided on what side of history U wana be?