By: *James Okuk
The White Paper on Defense, which established South Sudan Air Force (SSAF) under the historic name of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) heightened my spirit and gave me the necessary motivations for the future of South Sudan; the awaited richest African State in the heart of the continent. This is the best Bill that has been ever passed by the Interim Southern Sudan Assembly (ISSA) since its inception in 2005.
Congratulations to our unforgettable hero,
Oyay Deng Ajak and his team in the SPLA Affairs for drafting the White Paper and
presenting it to the Parliament of Southern Sudan in the right time.
Congratulations to the MPs of Southern Sudan for passing this Paper as a Bill
without any delay. Thanks to the MPs for authorizing the GoSS Ministry of
Finance to fund the implementation of this Bill as stipulated in the CPA.
Though very highly expensive to pursue, this Bill is a great step forward for
protecting the
Dear SPLA heroes and the People of
South Sudan do not worry about unhappiness of the National Congress Party (NCP)
and their Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) about the establishment of the Air Force of
South Sudan. After all, the NCP were opposed to the idea of independent status of
the SPLA during the negotiations in Machakos,
The NCP and their SAF were wrong in
their evil wish for the South. They forgot that the Southerners are known for
endurance, given the history of their continuous struggles with both the
external and internal colonialists in the
During the struggle, Southerners were
ready to eat, drink, wear, sleep and use all kinds of dirty substances that can
make them survive and defeat the paid and well-fed enemies of independence. The
freedom fighters of
Even if the coffers of the GoSS get dried up for the sake of rightly implementing the White Paper on Defense, let it be. The South needs a strengthened and well-organized armed protection capacity to ensure that the development is secured from the looters. After all what is the use of building schools, hospitals, roads and other infrastructure if they are not protected in the first place.
Southerners have witnessed during the
time of war how SAF used to drive heavy tanks on the tarmac roads in the towns
of Southern Sudan and making round turns on these roads, leaving them to look
like dry rivers with grabbles and sand. The Southerners have also witnesses how
the SAF and their militias carried away windows, doors, zincs, timbers, breaks,
and iron poles of the buildings of Southern Sudan; leaving the infrastructure
as ruins that cannot be described as any human work. Not to forget, many
buildings in the towns of
With South Sudan Air Force in place, no looter will carry away (unchallenged) any construction material from the infrastructure of the South to be used in developing the North. Even the armed Arabs nomads will be careful and respectful when they come to South for green and watery pasture, for they and their cattle will risk terrible deaths if they temper with the people of the land.
Let the SPLA go ahead to train the
bright and courageous
If the South wants a lasting peace, it
has to get prepared for war, a serious one this time. The best war to prepare
for will be the war from the sky with bombs dropping on tall buildings of the
enemies (if need be). No more jokes of cat and mouse tricks around the CPA
implementation. The Jellaba should become serious (even if they are SPLM
members like Dr. Monsour Khalid and Yassir Arman) on how the South should
become independent peacefully in 2011 so that good neighborhood can be possible.
No Southerner is dreaming to go back to Bilpam for AK 47 guerrilla training this
time if war break out again. If the South is re-disappointed, missiles will
just fly from RamChiel followed by Jets, Antinovs and Choppers from anywhere
around
Not only the Jellaba, but also the LRA in Equatoria should get warned that the SPLA does not joke around with those who temper with the Security and Stability in the South. The bandit Joseph Kony (with is his wrong vision of ruling Uganda with Moses’ Ten Commandments) will be advised to come out from the bush hidings in any spot within Southern Sudan and sign the Peace Agreement with Uganda Government before he can hate the day he was born, and before his mother could shed tears of sorrow. Long Live SPLA and long Live Southern Sudan on its way to untouchable independence!
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