The Systemic Underdevelopment of South Sudan by South Sudanese (1 - 2) - Sudan Vision

How many of us in the Republic of South Sudan (RoSS), including those of us running the central and state governments in the RoSS, how many of us, sincerely know and believe that, we are now on our own, and ought to look after ourselves, without expecting some other peoples and governments, to be primarily in charge of our comprehensive problems, and challenges. These problems and challenges include the obligations and duties owed to all women, children, and men of the RoSS, in terms of provision of goods and services, including security services.
These appear to be rather obvious comments, and some would say, stupid queries, from a South Sudanese who ought to know better. I am afraid, I do not know better now. Looking around the RoSS, I come out with the impression that, the entire RoSS appears to be populated with holiday makers, a people who are sojourning, and are on their ways to some permanent destinations, where, their original homes are. These attitudes are there for any objective observer to see in the RoSS. The notion and practice of governance in the RoSS do not indicate a notion and practice of governance meant to generate comprehensive positive goods and services, for all the peoples of the RoSS.
Let us all reflect on the pitiful appeal by our President to those ladies and gentlemen, who are alleged to have stashed away some millions of dollars, of our public monies, for safekeeping, for their private use, in some faraway bank accounts. If one analyse the moralities and attitudes of these ladies and gentlemen, who are being begged by our President, to return our monies, back to the RoSS, so that our orphans, widows, war amputees, pensioners, our sick in our hospitals, and many other South Sudanese could have semblances of reasonable lives, if one analyse these attitudes, one can easily see that, these said ladies and gentlemen, they do not think they belong to the RoSS, permanently. These ladies and gentlemen are here only for the loot, and sooner or later, they are off to their safe havens, for easy and secured futures.
When I use to painfully refer to the government of South Sudan (GoSS), before the birth of the RoSS, as the government of self satisfaction (GoSS), many politicians and ministers, in government of South Sudan, were very angry, and considered that to be an assault on the sovereignty of the peoples of South Sudan. I spoke from position of knowledge. I knew how much money was actually coming into the public coffers, of the peoples of South Sudan, before the birth of the RoSS. I was a very senior official, and first Deputy Undersecretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance, in Khartoum for almost six years, up until the establishment of the RoSS, and I knew the workings of the then Sudanese economy, and its financial institutions, like the back of my hands. I knew then that, the oil revenues, coming to the peoples of South Sudan were being misused and abused. Those abusing and misusing these monies were individuals in government, and thus, it was actually indeed, a government of self satisfaction.
I do not think that, when the majority of the peoples of the RoSS, voted in the plebiscite for the birth of the RoSS, they voted for nominal statehood. No. The peoples of the RoSS voted in their totalities for tangible and intangible meanings of the RoSS. They voted for their psychological freedoms and comprehensive ease of conscience, and collective assurances of their authorship of their sovereignty, and at the same time, they voted for the tangible, measurable, quantifiable, monitorable, evaluable, and satisfying RoSS. A RoSS that shall not allow them to be unnecessarily thirsty and hungry in the midst of rivers and fertile soils, and bountiful animal resources, wild and tamed animals alike.
Critical and scientific analyses of the monetary resources that have been misused and abused in South Sudan, by South Sudanese themselves, raise multitudes of logical questions. The temporal aspect of these analyses covers the time period, since the signing of the CPA, and since when South Sudanese become one hundred percent, in charge of running of their own affairs by themselves. These analyses deal with many political, economic, financial, social, cultural, psychological, moral, religious, tribal, ethnic, educational, skills, and institutional variables. The combinations and permutations of these variables produce raw information which point to the fact that, South Sudanese themselves, are now, systemically, developing efficient and effective methods and tools, for comprehensive underdevelopment of South Sudan.

The alarming and pitiful mesmerisation of the government of South Sudan, with conspicuous secondary side-effects of modernity, as being the actual development of the peoples of South Sudan, is a great cause for concern, for those discerning others, in South Sudan. The government of South Sudan can build electronically controlled public baths and toilets, in all its major towns, and it can erect the most glittering skyscrapers in Africa, in competition with the Arab countries, but, all these, shall not move us an inch, towards the direction of positive human development. These are simply secondary conspicuous aspects of modernity. You can have what the American have, but how to use them is the issue. We can in effect write the best democratic constitution in the African continent; also, how to put it into practical use is the issue.
For example, look at the fashion we use our traffic lights, and zebra crossings, in our roads. A Scandinavian European will stop at a red traffic light, at three in the morning, even if he is the only driver on the road, until the light turns green, signaling him to move on. A South Sudanese senior officer, and such like, will drive through such a red light, at the height of the rush-hour, and will probably assault a pedestrian who dare complain against that conduct. It is the case that, for the Europeans, they developed to the level whereby, their actual human needs compelled them to have these traffic lights, whereas, we, in this part of the world, just imposed these lights because, they are supposed to be there, in modern roads, and in a modern city like Juba as it were. Therefore, these traffic lights just came crashing down on us, somewhere from their moral and value system pedestals. In fact, the value systems and moralities inherent in these traffic lights are centuries away from us.