Come, Join and Offer the Missing Leadership for the Republic of South Sudan.

The United South Sudan Party [USSP] started the South Sudan National Dialogue process since it extended its worldwide invitation to All South Sudanese Students Worldwide a few weeks ago. Today we take this opportunity of the second week from the launch of the initiative to thank all those who warmheartedly received it and responded in kind. We also appreciate those who are still pondering over the idea and might choose to respond on their own pace and at a time convenient to them as individuals or organised groups.

The issues to discuss are obviously many, but we will take turns at highlighting each one as our dialogue progress. This week we shall shade light on one issue of a leading importance to you as young people who will soon join the job market - it is the issue of unemployment. The entire queue is long with those who graduated ahead of you and are still to be seen loitering the streets of our main towns in search of employment.
You may be surprised even the more if you learn that the official figures for faulty employment stands well beyond 65% of the total people in employment today in the nascent Republic of South Sudan as repeatedly referred to by both President Kiir and his deputy Dr. Riek Machar.  What this simply says is that in RSS unqualified people are knowingly being employed for one reason or the other, and while the authorities obviously have the Dutch courage to point it out, they do not command the needed patriotism and moral integrity to redress the matter.
From August 2005, the SPLM-led government with intent chose to adopt a system characterised by what can for simplicity sake be described as a ‘designed or institutionalised chaos'. This was primarily meant to reward cronies and old buddies, while sacrificing the very principles of the liberation struggle. It wasn't only about ‘money' for those who fought the war, but it was as well about social prestige and the sense on dominance and domineering. Otherwise how can one explain the philosophy that underlies the appointment of someone who never ever constructed a ‘kpanya road' for that matter (the African village roads, often meandering through the jungles and the bushes), to head the Ministry of Roads and possibly Bridges, and yet expect them to excel in that job?

Money squandered and development missed.
If it were about rewarding those who fought the liberation war, directly or by helping their widows and the orphans they have left behind, then the right approach would have been through the pension and social welfare funds, and not by asking a shoemaker to repair watches! After all each and

A case study:
You might have heard about how the ex-minister of Labour, Ms Awut Achuil resigned her post.  This ambitious lady had been vocal during her tanner in office and had made a constant presence in the media headlines as a preacher for reform with a proclaimed intension to weed the government of not only the thousands of faulty appointees, but was also seen to target and track down ghost names which continue to swell up the payrolls of the different departments in the ten states of South Sudan.
As the ex-minister of Labour stepped up her campaign, she became an immediate source of uneasiness for many in high profiled civil service positions. And since they are unable to demonstrate neither academic documents nor curricula vitae (C.V.s)  to justify  how  they got employed in the first place, the big for nothing were scared to extinction.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the development process which should have rightly begun in South Sudan since the SPLM-led government of south Sudan [GoSS] came into existence six and a half years ago, could have only happened through miracles under this type of a setting. Unfortunately no miracle has been reported and South Sudan continues to tail the world. Underdeveloped, no Human Rights, and not surprising Armed Rebellion is just second to nature, how long do we want to be like this?
Ms. Awut Achuil's fall out with the President is an eye opener to many who think that tangible reforms can still be   enacted under the current leadership. As somebody craftily put it, "Ms. Awut Achuil's threats to purge underperformers and unqualified government officials, must have rubbed some ‘high-up guys' the wrong way ".  The obvious is that, for President Kiir to survive in power he had to adopt an attitude which favoured the minister's resignation and not a confrontation with the unqualified, but perceived ‘strong guys'.

They had a legacy, but they killed it.

Today as I write the new Republic of South Sudan is experiencing a leadership crisis which translates into poor   quality governance.  However to conclude that the South Sudanese cannot rule themselves would be erroneous, for the best in this land has not yet been tested.   The truth of the matter that any objective individual can say and with a full mouth is that, SPLM under its current leadership has failed the people of South Sudan. It is by acknowledging this, then and only then would we begin the long journey into our second phase of the liberation struggle.   While undoubtedly it continues to exploit the legacy of the liberation war and indeed precisely the legacy of being a signatory to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement [CPA], the SPLM under its current structure continues to rule South Sudan, through a legacy that has suffered both abuse and misuse.  This sadly enough has unjustifiably paved the way for a default rule which consciously works day and night to entrench poverty and fear in return for a paradise for a few.   Although the April 2010 elections was necessary for the all important referendum that followed on the 9^th of January 2011, much of today's political miseries can be said to have evolved as a direct consequence of what we all saw, witnessed and observed. It was a misrepresentation of what should have been the first step in the long journey on the road of democratic transformation. But it never became.    All kinds of intimidations, humiliations, harassments,  down to frank gerrymandering, fraud and vote stuffing was practised by the two CPA partners in the exclusion of the rest. If anything, the entire ordeal only added to and exposed the corrupt face of the SPLM party. This was the impression unanimously shared by all including even the leading foreign observers and members of the international community.   Today the SPLM-led administration is even in a more precarious situation and can no longer continue to boast without being shameful of its too many immediate mismanagement scandals. It cannot steal and rob an entire nation to an extent that reports of citizens dying of hunger, lack of shelter and lack of basic medicines become everyday news headlines and somewhere in Juba it is still expected to be viewed as business as usual.   On the very eve of independence, South Sudan was walked directly into an open "Kleptocracy", as if what happened during the past six and a half years wasn't ugly enough to discredit the present leadership. The burning question now is,"why on earth should a few be allowed to walk away with the billions of dollars which they have stolen from a people who they claim to not only represent, but to have liberated"?   The old legacy of ‘liberation struggle' has long been choked by scandals of embezzlements after embezzlements, and practically it is now a ‘dead legacy'. When we see SPLM members of the parliament wailing, crying and in fact weeping with tears of bitterness in the August House on hearing the report of the Auditor General on how millions of dollars disappeared unaccounted for (mind you this report only covers from July 2005 to July 2006), we are sure that something valuable had died, and it is the "liberation legacy".   Dear compatriots, if it is for anything, it is this point that makes it all too imperative that no way can SPLM's control of South Sudan politics go unchallenged when it has clearly demonstrated not only a gross incompetence.  But it has way crossed the red-line to display a registered pattern of a notoriously malignant appetite for both the embezzlement and mismanagement of public funds.

President Kiir must be seen leading the recovery of the stolen funds.

Many of us are keen to see that the billions in stolen public funds reportedly horded in foreign banks are recovered and repatriated. An amount of $20 billion in Oil revenue received by the Government of South Sudan [GoSS] over the past six and a half years can hardly be accounted for in terms of developments on the ground. And no wonder that President Salva Kiir stood defenceless in front of the hundreds in the UN General Assembly [UNGA], only to declare and openly accept that South Sudan under his leadership did witness a widespread corruption in which billions of dollars have found their ways to private accounts of people none but those whom he appointed [of course including himself] to run the affairs of the  country.
Fellow compatriots!
By the sheer display of confidence which President Kiir showed in front of the UNGA and his reassuring attitude that he was going to oversee the recovery of every penny of the stolen funds in South Sudan, and thereafter he chose to go silent on the issue once back in Juba, shows how deeply involved the big boss is in the whole "money siphoning" saga. He should be the first to answer on every bit of the multi-billion corruption issue, and none of his silencing techniques is going to prevail. Any arrest of an opinion holder only strengthens the search for justice.  

Al Intibah's  list  was  a gross under  reporting  in  itself.

Not so much of news in itself, when a few weeks ago a list of some 16 embezzlers of public funds in RSS appeared in the ‘Al Intibah' news tabloid [paper]. The list was said to have come from the Americans, obviously a way of gaining credibility for the reporting, because without it the ‘Al Intibah' is just a crap paper published by northern Sudanese racist, and bigot, whose editor supposedly claims blood relationship to the President Omer al Bashir of Sudan.
Anyway within the South Sudanese circles itself,  ‘Al Intibah's' list  wasn't any more of a breaking news, for maybe except for the figures [gross underestimate by popular impressions], the public in fact expected more names than what came out. Someone even commented about the absence of prominent female figures that were well ahead of most to have started living luxuriously on blood money since day one of the liberation struggle. If the truth be said, the bottom line is that no one on the ‘Al Intibah' list can claim innocence given what the public know about them, past and present.
While the ‘Intibah' figures suffer gross under-representation of the magnitude of theft committed against the people of South Sudan, the overall feeling is that more needs to be exposed. There are obviously three or four female figures that cannot make it clean to the shores when their close male associates are topping the list. For God's sake that one ‘Lioness', known to us all cannot make it as a clean individual while records in foreign international airports say otherwise. Is this a nation going back to the bush or what? And can we stop it?
To draw the parallel here, it doesn't request a rocket science to see the relevance of how these billions of dollars would have been invested within the South Sudan's huge agricultural sector and without the least doubt it could have created thousands of the much needed employment opportunities. You must start seeing these so-called top government leaders for what they exactly are. They are embezzlers [thieves] of your money - the public money- the money of those who die on daily basis from treatable and preventable diseases,  lack of food and lack of clean drinking water. These are the people today you call as your leaders, but you need to rethink that position on the light of the new revelations about their conducts in office.
Join USSP and keep the Fire of the Dialogue burning. Your membership will definitely make the much needed difference, but it only counts when you are in. keep the Dialogue rolling through your feedbacks, assurances and support. Come, join now and offer the missing leadership in South Sudan!

We sincerely continue to thank the UNIMISS for the great job they are doing by making our voices heard uninterruptedly in the UN General Assembly and on regular basis.

Together and on the rubbles of dictatorship, tyrants, and wars, we will build the dream nation of the 21^st century as South Sudan transforms into a democracy. It's your tomorrow, and it's only you who can say the final word!

Dr. Justin Ambago Ramba. Secretary General - United South Sudan Party [USSP]. He can be reached at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Also for more please visit these links:  necessary party documents.

http://ussp-news.blogspot.com/

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