We want to ask Mr. Isaiah Abraham on the article he wrote on page 5 on KM Sunday, May 22,2011 by tittle “Opponents of South Sudan Draft Constitution have to give us a break”. What break Mr. Isaiah? You are calling people names as opposition groups/parties.
The exclusive mentality that will keep change at bay in the south even after the announcement of the new state is quite an unfortunate. The biggest problem of the SPLM is the culture of we know we know, when in actual fact the opposite is the case. If you knew any, only 5% of what is there to know, the south could have been in a better position today. No one doubts the capabilities of H.E. Justice Luk Jok, only that this knowledge is not being used for popular good, but to appease people like you and Salva Kiir.
The team that drafted DCSS is far from being technical, above all it was a political conglomerates of SPLM politicians amalgamated with those who can not oppose any idea coming from the SPLM. You talk about a constitution which will take off in twenty years after which the dictator will have to be removed Egyptian style. We want a document that can work right away respecting all the inalienable rights of the southern people. It is a shame on you to call this a revolutionary constitution the one that gives absolute powers to one man who had done but terrible administrative flaws in past six years with the salient features of corruption, tribalism, nepotism, war every where, no education, no health, no palatable drinking water, nothing. A leader who decrees other’s land as belonging to a different people, with the absolute power endowed upon him by constitution could cause a havoc.
Mr. Isaiah manifest the pride of an oxen who knows he cannot produce, but his muscles and skin are smooth. He should be the last to take pride in fraudulent elections which the whole world knows was under gun point in over 80% of the south. It is only Bakosro who ran away with true result, because his election officer was more cute than SPLM thugs who changed records in their favor. But the first victim of this constitution is going to be Bosokoro as the President has the power to remove elected governors, and this will be surely done to punish him for defying SPLM running as an independent. What Mr. Isaiah got to be honest about, is telling of truth so as to be respected. It is a known fact that Angelina passed the elections in Unity State, Athor in Junglei Yuanes Yor In Upper Nile,It was not Clement Konga who pass the elections in Central Equatoria, But Lado Gore, and so many examples including the GOSS President, and now you want people to trust you.
But if you are confident about the elections results, going for an early elections would have earn you respect and could have been better so as to have a legal longer period. All of the people of the south are aware that the one thing you will not accept, is the power and resources sharing with others, not because of the elections results, but this will make a difference for the SPLM luxurious life style and how will the families and expensive houses and cars outside southern Sudan be maintained if they are outside the government or not in control of resources?
However, or whatever you say about the constitution is rationalization in defense of a worthless document to impose your decentralization system on the people of the south as you refuse the federal system for no convincing reasons other than lust in power and control of the people for your own agenda. The most civilized method was to involve all the southern political parties and expose the document foe a plebiscite in it is regarded as controversial.
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