
After the long wait in vain and vanity, South Sudanese are still weighing ruthless wars against one another for the seeks of top seat in the Government of South Sudan and the traditional kingship of Chollo Kingdom’s throne in South Sudan – apart from what is being officially described as a democracy – the rule of laws: majority rule and minority right – which is concluded with the resolve of independent and the freedom for the societies of South Sudan, but was violated and shifted backward by both oppositionists and the rebel forces – a claim of unfounded historical foundation on the ground of South Sudan in term of economy, public policy, social right and the norm within.
Briefly, as another writer would do, this piece of manuscript is delivered in a tongue and speedily that only those who have, at least an intermediate readability skills could figure out the dependability out of the norm of it.
As South Sudanese, do we not really pay attention that we are really pounding ourselves and creating harms to the communality of South Sudanese and against the interest-based South Sudan’s sovereignty? It is not just how we could have played and it is not how we could have shouted to the outside worlds about our own typical mistakes and minor, but invincible and incidental dreads which we have unknowingly bought and tangled onto our hearts. It hurts. Don’t it? The pain, we feel and the blood we see soaking the soil of South Sudan is enough to us to heal our wounds and cover the past, and make tomorrow seems like day of safety, intelligence, butter, milk, honey, bread and steak in the future economy of South Sudan. We cry for help to the outside worlds, but it is not our cry they need – even if we scream to the outside worlds for help, it is just a waste of time. It is our reasoning they are after – and it is our economy, culture and security they are attacking – and they introduced us into the so-call “democracy” behind our rooms of true dreams of freedom and through the shedding of our very own blood – between us and our brothers and sisters – best for us is to look the alternatives combined with our cultural economy and made the Government of South Sudan more reliabilities, not on us who have limited understandings of former colonial nations’ governments – who have once undersold our forefathers’ generations in abortiveness and narcissisms for the sake of the coal, diamond, gold, and crude oil (which were later dug out and shipped to the masters that have slaved our people in a cool-bloody westernization policies) that are secretly hidden for us and for our benefits – by God who gives the faultless gift to the poor in need. Though they have had lived through the same historical era, they still look at us, judge us like the unfree African Americans’ grandchildren of today’s North America. It is them who know that the massive captivities of slaves which were traded to North America had once were from the heart of Africa’s last awakened nation of today – South Sudan. For them, South Sudan’s freedom is a freedom to every living former African slaves’ grandchildren who are outside Africa. Freedom to South Sudan means total and absolute freedom to African Americans and to those who have stood to their half-freedom of today. Death and pain we have conquered and forward we have managed to match to, fearlessly, and since they forcefully captured our communities by force and traded our communities between themselves, not so many nations of Africa have part-taken in freeing black American – they did by themselves – true freedom comes to the people of the new nation when men and women of the nation are standing affirmatively and firmly to resist both outside troops and rebel forces alike. And if men hold another men in captivities and in slave labor for in second or so long, longer enough for us and we can take those book to accompany us to determine what fits right for South Sudan. It is not up to foreign governmental agency/agent – not the role of the rebels either, to regulate South Sudan’s destiny. It is the role of the Government of South Sudan to back up South Sudanese for what South Sudanese has chosen – like the case of the referendum vote of July 2011. And the price to be paid is only one: defend the nation from being taken over by either outside forces (which could be trafficked in United Nations-peacekeeping troops or as a spying agent/agency that lives gently as a foreign security reporter – could be a journalist that lives and reporting for oppositionist or rebel advantages amongst South Sudanese for example). They have lived through the same pain before we have come to experience it. It hurt to live in fear and rebellious often, but it can still take us to wash away the fear and heal together the way a nation should do. Development in term of economy takes some times and it could even take another decade or more before we know that it is over, and we can live the life that we owe to ourselves and our young children, mothers, fathers, traditional leaders (the peace makers) and to our brave army and the police of South Sudan. It takes tolerant, but since we did not choose to wait in vanity, because waiting was not our toll, but resisting and struggling to champion what we owe to our brave men and women in army uniforms – for the sake of the people of South Sudan has been what we all have anticipated.
God do put mankind on trails, and it could have been the God who set us up for that kind of trails and struggle – in resisting what we have left behind – that has torn the biggest nation of Africa into two independent nations (Sudan and South Sudan). Sudan as many would have called it. It is Panchol in Dinka, Pothchollo in Shilluk, Rolenchol in Nuer and in Arabic, it is called Sudan as we all have come to know it. We could give ourselves some times and sort this “Chol” or “Sud” thing in our linguistics and maybe we could come to a better conclusion and agree on one objective to put our nightmare and fear of truth behind, and give the Government of South Sudan the opportunity to finish the heaviest load that we have managed to lift and dressed up on our shoulders and on the head of the Government of South Sudan.
With nothing less to worry about, we could be more resiliently assertive in making policies for our traditional and cultural economy in public, and due to the predicament which many of South Sudanese have struggled through, SPLA was and has become the only tool that have a strong hand and irresistible voice (which speaks power against resource robbers) that have supported and answered the voices of all South Sudanese – both in abroad and in South Sudan. Never the less have we totally failed to agree with our traditional lifestyles and the norm of our intentionally cultivated customs – that we have valued and dressed in different colors of beautifully and irresistible heritages. Have we not voted for self-determination and SPLA with its political movement supported the cries of the poor people of South Sudan on the referendum poll, we could be at the stages of unspeakable dreams. We could term our heard right for self-determination and day of healing to the children, mothers, fathers and to our elderly people and veterans alike, and a day of break-through and rest to our troops who have voluntarily held up arms to defend our right and dignity: the respect and justice day for all of us – because we did not judge ourselves, the world did after we have chosen what fit for us. And, the yes for independent was the call of the civilians of South Sudan, and the SPLA shifted its standing ground to support the people without going back to yesterday’s misery that has choked millions of our people, men and women, children and old ones in vain. Accepting betray to come and conquer our dignity and shaming the Government of South Sudan that has brought forth the shield which has blocked the gap within is what we could need to ended, not to interfere into our customs. The way we live as South Sudanese is always determined by who we were and what we have become today in the sight of the world. That our fate is up to us, and it the Government of South Sudan to defend and tolerate what fits or not fit for all South Sudanese –because the Government of South Sudan knows better than us – in the way modernity and the democracy could have been introduced to us. Many would come to conclude that democracy is introduces to us in wrong way. And yes they are right.
Democracy is introduced in South Sudan through the backdoor. Though we did not ask for democracy, they came to us because they knew that we have what they need – and they have wanted to get their hands on what we have discovered beneath the land of South Sudan – since they thought that we are too blind and too confused to distinguish between robe and honest trade in term of marketable treasures that can bring enormous wealth and economic strengths which could yield South Sudanese and the future South Sudanese a brightest and secured future. Knowing that we are in request of a loyalty and honest trade that can benefit South Sudanese economy, more than two rebel groups were introduced – agony and greediest western firms interfered into the prosperity of South Sudan’s booming fishery markets and oil revenues were looted, and civilians were starved, wars stepped in, more than enough unofficial opposition political parties were militarily introduce into South Sudanese’s normal life affairs. The oil productions were shot down, more than eleven oil wells were set on fire, and many reserved oil fields were locked down by the rebel armies, the looters with their business partners in-crimes ran to abroad and neighboring countries, and towns, villages, cities and businesses (malls, shops, markets, school buildings, health facilities, churches and other worship and community centres) of South Sudanese were looted and burned. And civilians of South Sudanese were forced to flee their homes and starved to death in the swamps – where mosquitoes bite, malnutrition, hunger, and homeless strike the know poor and innocent civilians of South Sudan. Really? Have that been the cause of the unlawful and unwelcomed businesses of the western which has led South Sudanese to suffer that much? Yes, but brilliantly, the Government of South Sudan through the joint military strategic of alliance armies have answered and defended the voices of South Sudanese the way any national government of different nation would treat any rebel movement/army of its own. Make no mistake. It is the same foreign nations’ businesses that have set the former regimes of Sudan against Southerners are the same businesses that are still engineering the rebellion movements/armies that have been creating destitutions and man-made disaster – that have led into poverty and disturbances in social justice systems and cultural markets of South Sudan. Though they have won by killing and displacing more of our people, still there is hope.
South Sudan still maintains its integrity and morality in military and political positions in the international marketability level – that South Sudan with its resources cannot be undersold, and role which the Government of South Sudan plays in piloting the trading of natural resources for the goodness of the societies of South Sudanese cultural wealth, and in security advancement is what needs to be anticipated by the international market’s trade rules when comes South Sudanese resource businesses: the international market value is the price that the Government of South Sudan can accept. Else black-market speaks better for African markets – since international market stocks are held by most of the anti- South Sudanese economics.
We have never been wrong and it is we who have been victimized, looted, degraded, slaved, deliberately deployed to do cheap-labor, and betrayed for the freedom which our brothers and sisters in uniforms have voluntarily sacrificed themselves for. We would not be underestimated economically since we, South Sudanese, we have come to understand that “oil is life” as it is stated in the previous article. Systematically, we have been purposefully set to pay prices to kill one another and against ourselves for the interests of some greediest foreign investors that serve no purpose for the interests of South Sudanese lives and security value. Yes, we, South Sudanese are different, and we have chosen to put down the bloody monster that has been sucking our blood for decades. As South Sudanese, we do not make decision for rebels or oppositionists. Nor do we park in robbery activities alongside the greediest foreign firms. The sickest one (in social value) may agree with what the greediest foreign firms have been trying to introduce. But he/she is already considered a socially ill individual who could die sooner or later in the hand of the true patriots of South Sudan – because the life in this world is not about eating, sleeping and forgetting.
They (rebels and oppositionists) play by the rules they have made for themselves and they live on the looted properties and on the robbed wealth of innocent civilians of South Sudan. But how long will it takes for them to last on stolen goods? One nation, two different armies: the western democracy for South Sudan. Hell, no! This is a deliberated death on South Sudanese by the greediest western diplomats. Government of South Sudan is right on continuingly boycotting all rebels and opposition political parties’ activities – because the opposition political parties (of South Sudan) that have been given chances to deliver their influences are the same oppositionists that feed the rebel armies against the co-existent life amongst South Sudanese communities. This should have been the other way around: opposition parties only use their voices verbally – while not touching any topic of defending the rebel side of any kind. And let the Government of South Sudan finished the jobs that have been promised to South Sudanese – whether through South Sudanese’s military powers against rebels or politically and lawfully against unofficial opposition political parties that are supporting rebels – until South Sudan is saved and life is back to normal – without rebel in it, but registered opposition – two (2) to three (3) political parties without acceptation of any additional. Do we not speak that language still? If not, our social life is not going to be the same again without spanking the assumed superpower on its scar or where it hurts the most. We are not done here.
What if there would have never been Chollo in Sudan at all? Should Sudan not be called “Sudan” which mean “Panchol” or “Rolenchol” and the citizens should have been still called “Sudanese” or “Chollo” or “Jurchol” or “Ranchol” or “Rammichol” etc? Without any predication, or misapprehensions of any kind, Sudan would have been called “Sudan” the Arabic term for “Pothchollo” and/or Sudanese would have been the name for the indigenous people or citizens of Sudan. We could not argue that much since we owe ourselves real deep apology, and the only way we could do away with that owed apology is to cease all rebel activities, and stop putting our ethnic communities into conflicts over a matter that we know we have not created for ourselves, but it was transferred and politically conveyed to us and against our unity and co-existence – so we can see, by tangling ourselves to it, and we can it irresistibly how it feels to be free and have a nation to call for ourselves. Though freedom of democracy do not rhyme with our traditions and cultures – of South Sudanese’s, we must, at least take a baby step toward democracy since it was not our thing anyway – that we should force ourselves to making it work as quickly as possible. Even with democracy, puts in its place, the greediest western nations always interfere into ours and other African nations’ peace and thriving economy if the greediest western nations are blocked from taking what they are after.
Creating coup or military coup as a threat to take our own government down is big violation to us, to our children and to the future generations of ours. We read news on TVs, newspapers, internets and other media. And most of the things that have discontented us are what we were told to do by the others – not what we must do to keep ourselves, united, and peace together. Example: Chollo Kingship’s throne was almost overthrown using army forces, and the king was made to flee his home for safety and refuge in Juba – only in 2016 Rädhø managed to visit Malakal and areas – not a coincident rule in Chollo Kingdom, that a Rädhø of Chollo could be overthrown by the use of army. May be it is in some peoples’ dream which said that Rädhø of Chollo should be derailed out of his throne militarily. Wrong judgment – to whoever did come up with that system. But we, should all be revived and celebrate now since, that evil force (Agwelek-in-SPLA/M-IO) that has almost broken into Chollo Kingdom’s heritage, that Agwelek’s power is diminished. The same failed system of coup that was tried by the SPLA/M-IO army as an attempt to quickly grasp people’s power from the elected President Salva Kiir, President of the Republic of South Sudan. How in the world could a guy who was chosen by Mr. President Salva Kiir to be his vice President (Riek Machar) could soon failed his duty as deputy chairman of the Republic of South Sudan if it was not a set up from the foreign agency/agent as trial to operate against the world’s youngest nation’s prosperity? Is it not a shame to remove an elected President from his position when he has not even completed his first four (4) years in the office? And as we all know, it is a President’s duty and decree to employ his deputy, secretary, and security leaders, chief of staff of army (Commander-In-chief), supreme judge of the nation, and defend lawyers for government, and more democratically – and our South Sudanese traditions and customs speak the language like so. So, what was the fusses with him (Riek Machar) that he (Riek Machar), the failed and traitor Riek Machar wanted to overthrow the government using army, when he could read the government rules, regulations, responsibilities, bylaws, legislatures, constitution and more than some ordinary men and women of South Sudan could? Here, greed would be the only answer. He (Riek Machar) was too greedy and did not know that there are rules, regulations, and more to follow when working with the government – specially the elected one.
Touching another important role in which Riek Machar plays too. Here we have Lam Akol, who calls himself Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin. God knows what Lam Akol is up to and why he has been so skeptical when comes time to deprecate most of his outlaw rules that keep hurting civilians of South Sudan – particularly the so call the people of Chollo Kingdom. If we could really take a proper look at Lam Akol’s political schemes, we can, as well discovered the army wing – which operates alongside his political party – that has been changing name for more than thrice in more twenty (20) consecutive years period. Riek Machar, the guy that calls himself Dr. Riek Machar has been impersonating the same routines of Lam Akol. Before the independent of South Sudan, Lam Akol was also one of the political activists that have insulted South Sudanese – just as Riek Machar did too, that South Sudan was going to become like other war-torn nations in the world. But, wait it was Lam Akol’s Army (the armed rebels which accompanied his coming to Juba, South Sudan between 2009 and 2010) that had attack Malakal and areas several times from the SPLA in 2009 to 2012). That army of his was led by Johnson Olony (as Lam Akol’s army wing in Chollo areas) into Chollo residential territories. Within those years of campaign for referendum vote, Pagan Amum was still campaigning and organizing rallies and speaking to the public in support of the people of South Sudan and for independent of South Sudan in Malakal town and areas – and he (Pagan Amum) has believed that no matter what the outcomes was going to be, he (Pagan Amum) would still remain firm and supportive for South Sudanese’s freedom right. With Lam Akol in Khartoum then, rebels of Lam Akol still attacking towns and villages, and taking what they got in term of as cows, goats, money, crops, and many other valuable things of innocent civilians. At that time, Lam Akol’s rebel groups used to be called “SSPLA” as South Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Such a mess up and with it, Lam Akol was not prepared, is not qualified, and will never be ready to be a good leader of any kind. Lam Akol is a distractor of security, economic and peace of South Sudanese. Such a terrible thought of Lam Akol, a thought that can never bring South Sudan into prosperity is what Lam Akol and Riek Machar have been manifesting against South Sudanese’s wills for years. And for all other senior and retired SPLA generals that has not rebelled or those who have ceased their rebellion activities, it would be a great applause to them (retirees and senior generals) and for us to be contented and live in peace and harmony for welcoming the Government of South Sudan to make decisions that makes an impact up on us all. We would always wish them peace and love with the life they have chosen to value out there – since they have not tempered with the peaceful life of South Sudanese. Until then, we have no enough conclusion to what has really went wrong in the currency market and why Lam Akol, Riek Machar, and other oppositionists have not opposed the economical shrinking of the South Sudanese valuable note – in term of South Sudan Pound, but we have a thorough understanding that South Sudanese Pound has somehow lost its strength since the period when rebel activities were set up against our peoples’ life and against the elected Government of South Sudan.
In 2009, when South Sudanese Pound (SSP) was introduced, 1.00 SSP was roughly 0.475 US dollar, and while rebel were taking advantage of attempting to weaken the democratically elected Government of South Sudan, between 2010 and 2013, SSP was almost nearly half way down than what it was. And 1.00 US dollar was exchanged at the rate of roughly 3.35 SSP to 4.0135 SSP at the bank rate. Looking at this figure, back then, maybe we could think of something different – apart from the forced peace which neither the parties that have engaged in both military and political warfare – after attempted failed coup in 2012. Despite the spoiled military coup to overthrow the elected Government of South Sudan, the South Sudan Currency still competes and thrive economically like any other struggling note would in market of currency exchange stocks. But still we, and the Government of South Sudan plus SPLA, we have not lost control of the market in term of what Garang de Mabior was worthy for. But, then we were slapped really hard by the Democrat Government of USA with economical sanction: Peter Gatdet’s earned money were frozen and seized by Barack Obama’s Administration. In which the same year Peter Gatdet’s son was killed in United Nations’ protection compound in Bor, South Sudan. Before that, John Kerry and some other US Special Forces stepped foot into South Sudan’s soil militarily and uninvited while the South Sudanese Army was still in a very actively war with the rebels in other parts of the country, South Sudan. What a coincident? Showing up uninvited and part taking in decision making for another sovereign nation while in USA, Black Americans are not free enough and not compensated by the US Government (that has slaved and slave traded black people) which has the laws that are still making black populations the poorest people in USA compare to other races in America – according to the United Nations Annual report book of 2006 and Black American Economists word. Hell no. American government under Democrat has nothing beneficiary for African. Remember the regrettable coordinated bombing that did burn pharmaceutical factory in Sudan – by the former renegade American President Bill Clinton? Do not mind the year – what matters is that he did authorized the bombing against the economic development of Sudan. Fortunately, we have come to learn that we cannot benefit from greediest economists with their raided commonwealths. Before then (back to South Sudan’s), United Nations Trucks where caught smuggling weapons and ammunitions to the rebels in other parts of South Sudan several times. What a messed organization? Today they delivery food items and non-military items to blindfold people, and the next day they are transporting guns, military hardware and ammunitions. Believing is that there are real active terrorist groups operating against South Sudanese and those active terrorist groups are hidden inside the United Nations Organizations and agents/agencies of theirs. They are terrorists because they training rebels, opposition armies, and they are help both rebels and oppositionists with military logistics – most of the bullets and guns in the hands of rebels and other opposition armies have been traded and supplied – to them through United Nations (UNMISS).
After failing to defeat the Government of South Sudan militarily, the imposed UN-US sanctions were weigh on the economy of South Sudan, and the exchange rate of South Sudan Pound, SSP from being 3.155 SSP to 4.37 SSP per 1.00 US dollar –hiked up to almost 10.00 SSP to 30.00 SSP per 1:00 US dollar in 2016. Well, it was Barack Obama and Ban-Ki-Moon’s plan and it were their administrations that have created the messes in South Sudan. But thoughts would be to clean up those messes, since those two greedy administrations cannot clean up the messes in our economical turfs of South Sudan; it would be courageously empowerment if we stand our ground and put the big brothers of ours in works, not clean with us, but to dictate and examine and twist the fingers and the hands that have intentionally created the economically turmoil for South Sudanese – because, if we all look at the scale and the split within, we could easily feel it that we have been cheated by the most greediest businessmen in this world and out of our wealth. While our people are starving to death, and at the same time the price of food and water is skyrocketing, malnutrition, morbidity, death tolls, and infanticide rates increased, the sufferings of our people means nothing to them, greedy businesses with their investors. They can eat, throw food and clothes away, and they can continue to do their dirty businesses like what they wrongly think of as free oil in a land of poor people of South Sudan – because without oil, they (greediest) cannot cope with the life they inspire without petroleum by products.
To make this remembered, the best way we could, we should do some social justifications, community works and volunteering activities to cheer up our communities of different backgrounds – make them believe that we have been deceived by the natural resource-looting businesses, and we need not to go over with this kind life ever again, and encourage our army and police of South Sudan to do just what our laws and customs tell us to do, and accept the outcome as the reminder for the future generations that we, South Sudanese deserve better treatments and better judgments, and better freedom to choose who to do business with – who to go into the international market with – because we do not deserve living with a natural resource-thieves, heartless killers, or blood suckers that are always dipping their noses into the businesses of poor and free people that are indomitably standing on distinctive supremacy.
To this extensive starring, it would be quite freeing if we can recognize the pain that we feel as we look at the children, women, old and young people of South Sudan that have been set up (by the greediest oil firms) and intentionally denied safety, food, clean water, health care, education, economic prosperities and freedom of economic modernizations for the good of South Sudanese customs. We, South Sudanese have been set up for ruins, but we do not deserve that bad investments and we have to clean up to make rooms for our newest economic developments – we can use the help from the long arms of our big brothers to bridge the gap within – entry into the international market. While we are cleaning the messes, let us regroup, neglect anyone who still wants to be in rebel of any kind, and give the advanced political and army penetrating jobs to the big brothers – since the big brothers know the drills and the right drill bits. We can always find a way to escaping brutality of rebel armed forces the same methods we voted for our own freedom and freed ourselves at the referendum poll July of 2011. The way we go good. If a rebel do not deserve a chance in western world – according to their democracy, a rebel do not deserve a chance in South Sudan – that is where we catch them red-handed with the blood of our poor brothers and sisters on their hands.
Speaking of a claim of unfounded historical foundation on the ground of South Sudan in term of economy, public policy, and social right and the norm within, there is still something we need to understand first. Think of it as this: we have land and within that land, we do nothing with it. We sit, eat (but we do not know where the food comes from), sleep and enjoy poverty life (when everybody else is being busy taking care of their own businesses and the family, and their countrymen they love more than us) while the land is wetting soaked by the blessed rain from God’s help. And when we find out that we need something to keep us going, we peak at other peoples’ little land that could be boomingly blooming architecturally and agriculturally. Uneasily, we have forgotten that we are intentionally welcomed by those people (some of them, friends and foes that want to take advantage of us) to freely explore and have look at what a strong man can do to flourish his destiny and enhance the leading life expeditions of the people he admire most. Surprisingly, we do not seem to be copying the cultivated modernizations that we need ourselves first before we yearn to invite friends over to have a party while our house is unorganized, and we are too lazy and could be too loose to put our strong bodies and minds to work for ourselves and the people we have fought for, and for those we have fought for us until the independent to present. Maybe we could learn something new from them, who has first mastered the life of their own before they could welcome us to have a look at their yards. In this sense, our nobility could be that we must enchant our sleeping strength to wake up and work for ourselves and for the people we love the most – to ease the suffering of our people of South Sudan. Looting, stealing and rapping women of others will not make us the mankind of yesterday, when we had not have disrespectful habits like those. But, still it not our faults. We were intentionally set up for that misleading life. A life where one chooses to objects over the sparing the life of the fellow South Sudanese. Indeed, American dollar is capable of buying some heartless people the kind of life they want for short run, but in the long run, the Government of South Sudan and alliances administrations are the men in control of the house that their little South Sudanese brothers and sisters live in – since every greediest investor has given his/her money to the known looters and the heartless hyenas (the rebels and their crew members that are bought by the American dollar) to deteriorate the peaceful and the freedom of economic cultures and prosperity of South Sudan. Notably, the heritages and historical grounds and the lands of South Sudan have their ideal owners, but some of who have been blocking other South Sudanese from living and investing in the lands of South Sudan that is uncultivated. Which is the evidently a true neglect of peoples’ power, of the expansion and a wasteful way to the delaying of the Government of South Sudan’s distributable power in security management – as the only way to safeguard South Sudanese from invaders and the cattle looters, and from bad foreign investors. And through the Government of South Sudan’s strategic goal sets, twenty-eight (28) states of South Sudan have been stipulated to draw the Government of South Sudan’s security teams close to the villages, towns, cities, and to the segregated hamlets and long-destitute hard working cattle campers in their camps. In regard to the reactions of the other sides (oppositionists and their rebels), Presidential Decree is irreversible. And since, security freedom is the best tool in managing peoples’ resources and interests, cultures, economic, wealth and trade businesses, all fronts of the Government of South Sudan and alliances have been brave enough in protecting what is best for the people of South Sudan.
Backing to the argument of peoples’ resources and the distribution of the Government of South Sudan’s power amongst all South Sudan in a fair and understandable manners, land of South Sudan has been reformed to fit the needs of every South Sudanese that had had flood, drought, insecurity, high illiteracy rate, health, and economic shortfall issues. It is not up to the rebels to decide since the people has certainly determined their future and the SPLA and the Government of South Sudan have supported the decision that the people of South Sudan has brought up on the chest of the normative societies of South Sudanese in a bright daylight. Hard to object, and in such a fortunate intelligent, it is the responsibilities and the duties of the Government of South Sudan to assist in assessing the policies that affect the public in South Sudan and amongst South Sudanese. And, since not all South Sudanese have guts to stand up to truth against the negativities of the greediest investors, we have to hold our unity firmly and defend what we have and what we value for our societies’ common goals as stated earlier. As the Government of South Sudan works things out softly, we have to get use to knowing that foundation and the shield to defend our economical right is the Government of South Sudan and the Army (SPLA) within the norm and not in the corporation activities of getting down to kissing the traitor his boot. It is not our duties or responsibilities to do surrendering things to the greedy foreign powers, but it is our genuine aim to champion what can be there for us in South Sudan – for those who have been helping us to keep away the colonies from invading our heritages. Hope is we know who bribes who and who deterred our co-existence in peace and our institutionalized infrastructures. Poking from a point like that is brave enough to avoid any unprecedented condition which could turn South Sudan into what we do not know yet, but our strength comes from the unity, respect, and the hardships which some have cheaply undersold to the greediest influential foreign oil firms. Our objective is to defend and invent what works best for South Sudanese, and we should always start by securing South Sudan economy and the life, and traditions of our people. We should care for one another so we could not be tempted to consume foreign-made political poisons unknowingly. And that could be the tool to direct our destiny into – to avoid rebel moves, and manage the policies we make to further our understanding of the world’s modernisms and the misperceptions within. And the urgency is that policy making should not have to base on what we do not see as a progress. Even if it takes years, decades or centuries to accomplish the kind of policies we make in term of our publicities amongst South Sudanese and the outside worlds, we have a greatest chance to be more invincibly in controlling our economy for the long run. In that intelligent task, we need not to show that we are coward in making decisions in our people in South Sudan. Evidentially, we have done well in defending the freedom of our economy for all South Sudanese. Even God with His Might, knows that we have done what we could to block the greediest resource-looters from cheating us – and our big brothers that have assisted in boycotting a lot of security and economical embargoes, those big brothers are very proud of the kind of job we have been doing. So, we need not to turn them (big brothers) down too – because that is what makes us a nation (South Sudan) – to decide for ourselves without being disturbed.
The Author is Stephen Owet, South Sudanese who lives in Canada.
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