GORDON BUOY: THE RULE OF LAW DEFEATED DR. PETER ADWOK NYABA’S OPINION – A LEGITIMATE RESPONSE
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- Created on Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:01
- Written by Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba
Yes, Mr. Gordon Buoy, the rule of law defeated Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba’s opinion; but which rule of law? I presume you meant the decision of the Minister of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development (GOSS) to overturn the lifting the immunity of the four SPLM-DC Members of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly and their release from detention. If that is the case then GOSS is the principal culprit of which the Minister is a part by the doctrine of collective responsibility. That decision of the Minister of Interior and Law Enforcement to have the four honourable members arrested could have been challenged in the Council of Ministers and the ensuing rancour would have been avoided.
The rule of law in theory and practice presupposes that all and sunder abide by the law; whether or not in government and private citizens must respect the law and in return the law protects them. This means that when somebody or a political party subscribes to the rule of law e.g. after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) the SPLM/A returned to legality and practised within the precincts of the law. The SPLM-DC was established and registered as a political party in accordance with the Political Parties Act 2009 which grounded in the Interim National Constitution (INC) 2005. The PPA is clear about and prohibits political parties from operating own armies, militia, etc, because that is illegal.
If you agree with this line of thoughts then I will take you through the events in the Shilluk Kingdom from March to June 2010 which prompted the writing and my hypothesis of ‘delegitimisation of SPLM-DC’, which was the gist of your long article. The month of March was the zenith of the election campaign all over the Sudan. In some parts of Southern Sudan including the Shilluk Kingdom it coincide with the SPLA campaign for disarmament and removal of illegal arms from the hands of the civil population.
I had nominated myself for the position of the Governor of Upper Nile and therefore had opportunity to go around in the Shilluk villages to gauge the political landscape. The situation I found contributed to my withdrawal from the race. Let me quote a few words from the gun trotting young men I met in one of my trips to Northern Shilluk.
“The SPLM-DC is going to win all the seats in the Shilluk Kingdom and Dr. Lam Akol will be the next President of the Government of Southern Sudan.”
“Wad nyajago says he will built brick houses for us in Kenana, so we are going to drive everybody here to Kenana; the war will break out in May because the Dinka are bent on taking our land – what do you want here you traitors, those who have been bought by Salva Kiir with ministerial positions.”
These are a few provocative words I was subjected to and there was little I could my ministerial position notwithstanding. The atmosphere was completely poisoned because it seems the election was a determinant and losing it was a limit situation in which hell would break loose.
Mr. Gordon Buoy I want you to be patient because I want to inform you that I have in my possession a document authored in Arabic language. It is a report of the Chairman of SPLM-DC to the Party Central Committee following consultation with other political parties and individuals in the SPLM. I believe this was in preparation for the General Elections. I will quote some points which obviously support my hypothesis of delegitimisation of SPLM-DC. I will quote the numbering of these points for reference in case you may have the opportunity to lay your hands on that document. I want to add that this must be one of the documents the SPLM got from the defectors from the SPLM-DC and therefore is credible.
“Point (3) Agreement has been reached between your glorious party and the other Southern Political forces in order to unify the political vision (goal) and to create a military body capable of protecting/defending the political vision (goal) for change.”
The document goes on informing the members of the Central Committee of the individuals within the SPLM and some Equatorians who are said to be against the political and economic hegemony of the Dinka tribe and what should be undertaken in the coming period. These included and I want to quote the three important and relevant points:
“First – in case the alliance fails to win the elections against GOSS there shall be coordination to launch military action in all the Southern States to topple by force GOSS.
Secondly – work to mobilise the minority tribes against the Dinka tribe.
Thirdly – work to support the unity option in order to solicit moral and financial support from the National Congress Party.”
Yes Mr. Gordon Buoy, these are bare facts upon which I based by hypothesis of the SPLM-DC delegitimisation. This is because in May Kwanyireth Peter Oyath the paramount chief of Nyiyar was assassinated in a manner unprecedented in the Shilluk history. This was premeditated murder and was carried out in implementation of strict military order. The group acted under orders from Khartoum and coordinated by telephone in Malakal by Mr. Y (name withheld). There were arrests in Malakal and some elements (11 in number) were captured in the battle field fighting the SPLA. They made statements and have attested they were members of the SPLM-DC. They said they were under orders to fight the SPLA (Dinka army of occupation) in the Shilluk land.
In view of the glaring evidence it is now beyond reasonable doubt that the SPLM-DC runs clandestine military activity against GOSS in the Shilluk Kingdom. It is not enough to deny in the press. Everybody who was affected by the recent fighting in the Shilluk Kingdom knows who was behind this debacle.
The rule of law dictates that any crime committed must be punished. Something must have terribly gone wrong with the system that four months on the assassins have not been taken to court. It may suggest incompetence on the part of the law enforcement agents. But I think otherwise and I want to link it to the drama going on in the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) and the wider internal problems within GOSS.
So let me ask you; where is the rule of law you are bragging about when the crime – the assassination of Kwanyireth Peter Oyath and his entourage - has not been put to rest? What is preventing the Hon. Minister of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development from starting the investigation in order to build the case? Can the Government that has all the moral and political authority and responsibility for establishing the facts about crime like that, fold its arms without commissioning action? What kind of rule of law can make one run away with crime as enormous as homicide?
In all honesty all that is going on in the corridors of power in Juba is not about the rule of law. It is a very complex and complicated high level back stabbing, vengeance and counter vengeance. The drama in the SSLA these demonstrate in day light clarity about these intrigues. The Hon Speaker has flouted all Parliamentary procedures to manufacture an opposition in the name of the four SPLM-DC members and shamelessly requests the August House to clap for the leader of Opposition. The case un-lifting the immunity of these members was debated and defeated in July. Therefore it should have not been re-introduced into the agenda of the same parliamentary session from which it was thrown out. Therefore Mr. Gordon Buoy you have to reframe your article to read that in-fighting and political re-alignments in the GOSS is defeating the rule of law. Indeed the recent development will bring to the surface many SPLM-DC members who clandestinely operated in the SPLM making it difficult to term it the ruling party in Southern Sudan.
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15-09-2010 20:16:56 |Unregistered| Simon gaj Akoj
لك الشكر السيد الوزير علي المقال التي كشف مايدور في دهاليز التغير الديمقراطي من خفايا تحطيم حلم الشعب الجنوبي الذي يخطط ويدبر لها رئيس التغير الديمقراطي بنوع من ألأنتحار وألأنتغام السياسي بعدما فشل في المنافسة القيادية داخل الحركة وتحول لعدو لدود لها مستغلاً التراتبية ألأجتماعية و السياسية له والجهل السياسي وألأجتماعي لجماهير شعبنا في الجنوب لتمرير ذلك العمل الخبيث
وشكراً سايمون قاج
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15-09-2010 23:02:50 |Author| Olami
Dear Comrade Dr.Peter Peter Adwok Nyaba the Minister guten Abend,
i have been following all your articles on this website concering your accusation to the SPlM-DC! If you are realy in position of that document you mentioned here, why dont you post it on the website, such that we read this, i may be very interested to know all the secret agreement between SPLM-DC and NPC
Schnönen Abend
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16-09-2010 01:55:09 |Unregistered| Aban Kur
Well constructive analytic info. What a pity that hon. Speaker James wani, blindly and
foolishly accommodating criminals. This is the same incompetence and act of ignorance that President Kirr , committed when he brought in traitors in the first year of CPA, who work tireless to bring down SPLM. Thanks God he came to his senses and this situation was defuse. Comrade Nyba, don’t wise you valuable time replying to political prostitute like Gordon Buoy, who writing nonsense with the hope that he will be accommodated in some how high level position. He is a homeless in Washington DC . When he signed that memorandum of understanding with SPLM, Ezekiel Gatkuoth, promises him that he will talk to Kirr, to consider some accommodation for him. If you go to Sudan Tribune you will see how badly he was dealt by comrades on this long rambling article with a big title that make no sense. Stay well comrade. We will still need your advice in the field if things go bad. And you definitely know where those of Buoy and there likes will go to, when mother of all wars starts in January. No doubt, they will joint there former masters.
I learned that those of Kirr, and truly comrades Pagn Amum, and Deng Alor, will arrive tomorrow Sept. !5th 2010 , to make their last round in UN and White House for referendum, God bless them as their Campion the noble task for our freedom.
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16-09-2010 03:44:41 |Unregistered| Dr James Okuk
Your Excellency Prof. Peter Adwok Nyaba,
It is indeed a big shame for an elder like you to manufacture lies in order to assassinate the political character of Dr Lam Akol and draw a dark image against SPLM-DC.
Who can you hoodwink here that your Upper Nile State gubernatorial nomination in the last April elections was just tactical like the SPLM nomination of Mr. Yassir Arman for the Sudan presidency? You nominated yourself against the SPLM Politburo's choice just for a pressure to maintain your current ministerial portfolio. That is why you kept people waiting for your announcement in River Transport Hall in Malakal while you disappeared mysteriously inside the town. Please try lie somewhere to those who don't know you , not here where lies are never entertained.
Regarding your claim of possession a report of Dr Lam Akol, the Chairman of SPLM-DC, "to the Party Central Committee following consultation with other political parties and individuals in the SPLM" please kindly forward the document to the moderators of pachodo website so that it could be published for the scrutiny. Otherwise, failure to do this might be construed as part of your perpetual shameless lies about Dr Lam Akol and his political supporters. Learn to be honest!!!
Stay well
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16-09-2010 07:33:03 |Unregistered| Lado Kenyi
I wonder why those who assigned themselves as disciples of Dr. Lam try to defend Dr. Lam Akol whenever he is criticize by others knowingly that Dr. Lam is capable to defend himself?
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16-09-2010 14:01:27 |Unregistered| Nyagaw Philip
I wonder if Dr:Peter Adwok have a documents as a report of chairman of the SPLM-DC as he alleged, what you have been waiting all these times ,while your party in Juba was searching for evidences to judge the members of the SPLM -DC ?
why did you tired minister of interior and let him went to Upper Nile State ( Malakal )searching for evidences ?.
regarding what the young man told you ,during election campaign that he said that SPLM-DC is going to win all seats in the Silluk kingdom he was rights do you know why? because all the people in upper Nile state discover your reality , and be informing that they are wise and aware even those who are not educate knows what you did for them ,their decision was a reaction due to your party position when Dainka takes their land.
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16-09-2010 16:19:54 |Unregistered| Dr. Peter A. Nyaba
Dr. Okuki,
Not that I should learn to be honest, but you will be surprised when the truth comes out and you will discover that you have been blinded by unwavering support for your leader. Politics is not a straight forward game and that explains the political wandering of your leader and the unprincipled alliances he continues to strike including with some Dinka politicians who are classified as enemies of the Shilluk people and that is put in the mouths of the small boys who threatened us in wic rek in March this year. Don' worry you will get the documents when you are back home; for they are not materials for the websites. Stay well
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16-09-2010 17:19:37 |Unregistered| Dr. Peter Adwok Otto
self defence on baselessness is the most acute non reliability on an intellectual and the shortest cut to lose credibility if it were there any way. Professor Nyaba would be the last to abstaine from persentimg documentents genuine of counterfieted against SPLM-DC. So if these quatations are from a true paper, he would have presented them before the court asks for. He could not run for elections for the reasons of not being brave to run as an independent SPLM candidate which would have amounted to his dismissal from SPLM and from the ministerial post. The second reason the the sure failure that awaited. This is not the first time he would have failed. He did that drastically when compaining for the chairmanship of SPLM party in the state shortly before the second SPLM convention before the SPLM-DC was established. Thus this self defence is meant to save the water of his face.
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16-09-2010 17:24:27 |Unregistered| Dr. James Okuk
Excellency Prof. NyabaWaw! Then I may be right that what you wrote here is just fabrication without a real substance. If you are able to quote some fictitious points of your fabricated document in the name of Dr Lam Akol, then what is the point of feeling ashamed to publish the whole document if it is a real one. Don't pretend that you will give it to me directly when I visit you? I am almost sure that you have nothing except Eng Kisanga's lies about Dr Lam, aimed at begging defecting favour from SPLM.
Yes, politics is not a straight forward game but only for those who are dishonest, malicious and treacherous. If there is a principled savvy politician in Southern Sudan but in the whole Sudan at this time, I don't have any doubt to name Dr Lam Akol. That is why I agree with him in most issues and play with him in the same team of political games. Again, try to learn to be truthful if you expect support from me like I do to Dr Lam.
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16-09-2010 22:34:00 |Unregistered| Aban Kur
Dr Nyaba, don’t need support from traitors and sellout. We will discipline you when the time is right. Mark my word.
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17-09-2010 04:02:16 |Unregistered| chol nydhok
I WOUNDER WHY SHOULD AN ELDER AND A VETERAN POLITICIAN RISK HIS CREDIBILITY AND LIE!DR.ADOWK EITHER U PUBLISH THE PAPER OR YOU SHALL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS A POLITICIAN WHO DOES ANYTHING TO TARNISH THE REPUTATION OF OTHERS FOR MERE JEALOUSY AND FEAR OF POLITICAL COMPETITION!AGAIN WHY YOU FAIL TO TELL US WHO ARE THOSE HIDING DC MEMEBERS WITHIN SPLM WHO ARE STABBING YOUR CAMP OF COLLO BETRAYERS FROM THE BACK?WHY DO N'T YOU MENTION THEM AND THE REASON BEHIND THEIR DEEDS?
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17-09-2010 08:24:34 |Unregistered| Dr. Peter A. Nyaba
Dear Okuki and Kiki
Don’t panic there is time for everything under the sun. A person like me has not been known for lying or fabricating facts for I have nothing to fear or ask for as a favour. I had all along believed you were intellectuals but now I am convinced that you are not and that explains why you resort to insulting the people you disagree with in what looks like a coordinated blackmail to stifle the debate. I strongly believe you are helping but contributing to destroy your leader because with your blind support you prevent him from discovering his weaknesses. Closing yourselves in ethnic chauvinism and myopia will not help the Chollo cause. Stay well.
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20-09-2010 23:43:01 |Unregistered| Yohannes Kong Tut
"Aban Kur" is a savage Dinka who gave himself a Collo name as to confuse those participating in the forum. Nuer have not occupied Colloland. The Nuer he is referring to, are those who have scaped during the times of hardship like draught, insecurity, fear of Murle or something. These Nuer are residing in Colloland through negotiated settlement with Collo authorities. When peace comes after independence, they will be resettled back to their lands. There is a vast land with no people in Nuerland and much of it is left to the trees only. During the years of hardship, Nuer have migrated closer to Malakal to seek protection for their lives and their cattle. No body can take Shilluk land if even if what and by any mean because it can spark controversy in the whole region.No Shilluk can be mistreated in the presence of Nuer except coward Nuer (s). This savage person by name Aban Kur is not a Collo and if he is, lack of love for Collo has captured his spirit. When Anakdiar was attacked by Dinka, Aban Kur was the first to support the move. When Uncle Dr. Adwok Nyaba on his piece cautioned Dinka from occupying Colloland, Aban Kur turned out to be disagreeing with Uncle Dr. Adwok Nyaba. Aban Kur hates Dr. Lam Akol indeed, he hates all Collo and he hates Nuer too. We are all supporters of SPLM/A but it seems this savage creature by name Aban Kur is hidding his real identity by becoming a shadow of destruction. This savage person might be either a Dinka Bor or one of the savage Ngok or he is a nonpatriotic Collo with ties to Dinka. Last he sent an article to citizen daily supporting the dismantling of Dr. Lam's party and the hunt for some destructive elements which he said to be residing in Collo Kingdom. How can this savage keep kissing the Dinka ass and SPLM/A. You that savage, you cannot hate Dr. Lam for any reason and by any mean. He will always be greater than you. Don't you know that his party is recognized as the only official opposition party in Southern Sudan? Salva Kiir and Dr. Riek both respect Dr. Lam Akol for his exceptional wisdom. Also don't forget that Dr. Adwok Nyaba is one of the genius, outstanding but the problem with him is that he is too radical. Dr. Adowk and Dr. Lam are both Collo and they are leaders of the South. Don't fuel problems between them you savage fellow calling himself Aban Kur fakely. Just help the two leaders to unite, solve their differences so that peace is maintained and sustained among Collo. You savage guy, are you trying to be dividing and ruling Shilluk you savage and stinky fellow?
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