The fall of the fallen guys

By: Aban Deng Atur. From Malakal.

I was phoned by some one from Khartoum on the eve of state election for the SPLM coming convention held in Malakal on 29 April 2008, wishing to know about the election mounting heat in Malakal. “It is difficult to predict now” I told him. “But one thing is sure, that the masses are going to say their say” I continued.

Politics have been long described as a dirty game, and only the true politicians know the rules properly. The dirts of politics sometimes are the blessings in disguise. The drama that had enssued in Malakal on 30 April should be a lesson from which to learn. That the perquisite of becoming a peoples’ chaoice has nothing to do with falsity, fanaticim, perplexity or long empty speeches.

To be a man of the people is a cumilitive effect of human proactive deliverance to the people and nothing short. Politicians who take people for granted, cheat or buy the voter will never pervail even if the stay long enough, shall never aquire the status of statemanship. Mass justice had spoken in Upper Nile. This is a warning that unless people come to terms with their representatives, there shall always be a gap between the people and imposters. Same friend of mine phoned me from Khartoum again after the results were made public as he expressed surprise to who loss the vote. “Why are you surprised?” I told him. “Because Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba and his team were to win according to the openion poll here in Khartoum” he continued.

The openion poll in Khartoum was all the time falacious as the people in Malakal were following the rigging of the basic voting in many counties as this was repeatedly written and compaints had been pile to the General Secreteriat of the SPLM, which always turns a deaf ear. However, how can the secretariate take action against its own making? Every one in Upper Nile is aware how the commisioners of the counties bullied the citizens in the hope that the will of the people can be usurped to serve the interest of certain groups.

The political giants will always remain so in spite of attempts to mitigate their role. An elephant is always an elephant and the Fox is always itself despite the endless intrigues and tricks and great tribulations incurred on the people including besides the enimity they brought along, death to innocent non-suspecting lives not involved in political wrangling. You know why elephants will not make tricks, because the walk steadily and can never run into holes. They will always stand tall and promote justice. Only those who twist just course make tricks and have to run into holes when cought. Any politician heavly dependent on empty promises, also has a boomerang in the other hand unconciously.

The second SPLM convention about to convene this May could be a turning point in the right direction on the political SPLM roadmap into the future to address so many contradicting philosophies. In addition, with the non-coming of Ann Itto, Taban Deng in difficulties demcratically in Unity state and others elsewhere, in SPLM preliminary elections, on the people’s tickets, should send a strong message that it might as well be the beginning of scrambling of the SPLM SG Pagan Amum’s third Riech. 

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The good friend of mine from Khartoum bothered me a lot with his querries and worries. “It is unfortunate that the Collo is not represented in Upper Nile State” he quitely lamented. “SPLM is none of Collo buisiness, so long there are comarades on the team that can serve the interest of all the people” I responded. Collo never needed a special treatment when it comes to public affairs. After all, we have our sprititual leader the Reth, thus nothing else matters. Who told him that all Collo are good in that regard? I should refresh his memory that the killings of Collo in 2003/2004 in scourge earth incident in which so many were killed and the Royal home of Reth(at Pamaadh) was burnt to ashes were in the hands of some Collo fellows. Those who turned around now pretending to be good were implicated. Why my friend is lamenting over the spill milk is absurd. ALL the tribes in Upper Nile know that if Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba becomes the chairman of SPLM in the state, there wi ll be very little room for peaceful co-existance. “Who are you going to blame now since all the supporters of Dr. Lam have failed the election in the Collo four counties through rigging, how could they have helped the situation when they are not there?” I challenged him. “You had better take the issue to those who engineered the conspiracy and failed to excute it to the desired end result”. Came my advise lastly as he closed his mobile phone in a disappointed manner. Finally, it is a healthy democratic exersice that Lam and Pagan stand at the opposite ends of the political SPLM spectrum and rally other ethnic groups behind their phillosiphies,Dr.Lam standing for the self-determination which he helped into being in Frankfout 1992 to become the single most important item in the constitution of the Sudan for southern people,and tragets 2011 when each and every one casts his vote to fulfill the CPA provision. Pagan on the other hand, never want to loose sight of the New Sudan where he hopes to become the president of the New Sudan as the Americans lured him into adoring the concept. There is no antagonism in practice which necessitates hatred if they should let the democracy take its course and let the majority perveil.But the tendency to settle the ideological contrast by marginalization and terrorizing as experienced by Dr. Lam in Tonga,Kodok, Aweth and Wadakona and Criminal chief Oyath Odhok who is thought to have been folishly lured into this an unenviable legal fix and wants to hide behide Throne instead of being brave to face the law, attracted many sympathizers to Dr. Lam. Their sling had swung around to hit all the deciples of conspiracy in their heads, as the counties of Upper Nile State stood firm against them.The last leg is the convention and no one will be surprised if the conspiracy doesn’t hatch a viable sparrow-hawk.