South Sudan should embrace Political legitimacy and avoid authoritarian leadership
By: Lok Franco Kok, South Sudan MAY 24/2011, SSN; This country has a long, ugly history of suppressing the choices of minorities ethnic groups, and today's people suppression tactics follow in that shameful tradition. We all know that politics play the major role in our daily life and we can not leave it out when it come to major decision making concerning the country and the youths forum. The dominant political atmosphere in the country by one party create chaos, greediness and all the evil that we can think off. We need to balance the equation by attributing and allocating our voices correctly. Please fellow readers, get me well I am not supporting any political party here but do your decision taking competition into considerations. Some of our current political leaders are hard at work dirtying others to make sure they kill off any possible competitors there is no truth rather than creating a mountain of corruption. Our dear country South Sudan is in dire need of qualitative and substantive change from retrogression of the past six years under SPLM rule, to a future of progress, beginning from the announcement of independent. We are tired of being ruled by the Party of Do or Die politics and politicians. SPLM plays politics of persuasion and policy articulation. The ambition to be free from the ‘nest of killers’ who can do anything for power, needs a smooth and quick solution, otherwise we will have a negative start. We need a peaceful polity as envisaged by Nationalists who cares for the future of our beloved nation. We are tired of the negative image of a corrupt nation stamped on us by the ruling SPLM government’s six years of waste,brutality and killing of innocents civilians. Those who take the justification of authority to be the fundamental normative problem reject a coercion-based definition of legitimacy. Coercion, on my view, is only a means that states use to secure their authority: “Coercion threats provide secondary, reinforcing motivation when the political order fails in its primary normative technique of authoritative guidance. South Sudan becomes tired of an illiterate government without an ideology, without social and political principles and without an understanding of society and governance. As Head of state, Mr. President should stamped out corruption in public offices by making politicians to be held accountable for their actions while working in government institutions. The ruling SPLM party works to protect their own interest rather than the public. Everyone has different personal interests, and we should all have our own special desire to satisfy those interests. While political authority thus pre-exists in the state of nature, legitimacy is a concept that is specific to the civil state, in which we should willingly adopt to carry on the affairs of our New Nation. A mere thinking of the effects of chronic sufferance Southerners are going through , of their life and future in one Nation and of the naked fact that a specific tribe controlled federal government for more than four good years, - are enough to make one crazy about. The minor ethnic group bury their heads fearing to protest against injustices done to them in the South is worrisome. Yes, I am crazy and restive about these facts. It is hard to imagine, the progress we would have made as a nation democratically and can not brutally brought governance to a standstill. The ways in which things are executed is really inhumane and far beyond human imagination. The Form of government that subordinates all aspects of its citizens' lives to the authority of the state, with a single charismatic leader as the ultimate authority. A dictatorial form of centralized government that regulates every aspect of state and private behavior. There is no single cause for the growth of totalitarian tendencies. Without question, the right-wing ruling class in this country has set out to take most if not all of these tenets to create a new feudal system in South Sudan. The South Sudan, as we know it, would cease to exist as a beacon of freedom and hope to the world if the ruling class is allowed to continue its power grab. There is no easy way to meet these challenges. Solutions depend on hard choices being made about putting all differences a side, about how to strike the balance between liberty, the founding value of our country, and security, and about how best to develop new answers to the problems facing our entire society. Pretending, in the interest of short-term political maneuvering, these hard choices do not have to be made, betrays all those who depend on government to protect them - and that is nearly all of us. The legitimacy of political authority in the civil state depends, on whether the transfer of authority has happened in the right way. We need leaders who are consistent, stable, and whose personal lives are congruent with their public personas. There needs to be integrity or wholeness to who they are, what they think, and how they act. The writer is a Southern Sudanese,and reachable through: [email protected] COMMENTS, PLEASE CLICK HERE Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author(s) and do not represent those of the website. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
