Any award should be about Southern Sudan pride, Mr. Professor
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by Isaiah Abraham
June 30, 2011 — I find an article written yesterday (June 29, 2011) by
a Southern Sudanese researcher Dr. John A. Akec about Gogrial
contribution nationally and international offensive and tasteless. I
must debunk it against him not the entire Gogrial people. Dr. Aketch
blew the horn of Greater Gogrial so loud that his self inflated pride
analogously reminds me of a Biblical Pharisee who stood aloft in the
temple and prayed thus: “ God I thank you that I’m not like other
men”, (Luke 18:9-11). Mr. John exactly wanted to portray other
Southern Sudanese as ‘robbers’, ‘evildoers’ and ‘tax collectors’.
The good professor moreover didn’t end his ‘holier than thou’ lecture
but twisted historical facts about the liberation struggle for the
people of Southern Sudan to suit his home boys and girls. He had
attempted to make Mr. Kiir wiser than Solomon, and Ms Wek more
beautiful than Diana of Britain, a design we all know is typical of
Dinka people. The truth of the matter is that Gen. Kiir is wise
because Southerners are wise and the same is true with Alek Wek. It is
Southern Sudan that makes anyone somebody, and not the other way
round! The party he leads to be specific makes anyone!
Kiir inherited anger, frustration and ‘dogged’ determination long
enough right from the time of Fr. Saturino down to Garang, and nothing
here he had achieved singlehandedly through his wisdom to liberate the
people of Southern Sudan. Even Garang, if alive, couldn’t claim to
have liberated Southern Sudan. It is the combination of efforts from
1947 to 2005 that count not an individual whose fate smiled at him
once at a time in the process of the struggle.
It would be affront to our martyrs if we allotted an award or
recognition to one individual or a few. I am talking here about
national contribution Dr. John highlighted in his Gogrial elevation
piece. International award is a different thing all together as the
choice doesn’t necessarily mean celebrities or achievements.
Dr. Akec must not get carried away about ‘his people’ individual
contribution so to insult the intelligence of other Southerners.
Southern Sudanese have made it collectively to this end, I must repeat
myself. Any success by an individual or group in any part of our land
was for a larger good of all Southern Sudanese. Southern Sudan at the
moment needs a tone that unites not a voice that scatters. We want to
brag together as one people, not as sections or clans.
We have all suffered or contributed, and by any measure each
individual in the South has contributed nationally or internationally.
There is no point therefore for one section of our society to push
itself above others as if the freedom for the people of Southern Sudan
was the work of Gogrial people. There are similar stories in Bari,
Shilluk or Nuer but these people don’t go public to make mounts about
what their daughters or sons have achieved for the nation. May be
people need to know what constitutes national contribution. Becoming a
minister alone doesn’t make anyone a contributor for the struggle of
the people of Southern Sudan.
Mr. Professor your naked gloat about Gogrial on the expense of other
Southern Sudanese has blinded you to spew venom against critics of
Gogrial kitchen Government. You have easily forgotten, sir, that you
were few nights ago one. Was that not you Mr. Akec who has written
extensively against the government of your people? You claim wildly
that Kiir has stolen election, wasn’t that substantiated by facts on
the ground? Were you not the one who labeled GOSS as government that
is run by good fighters but not good managers’? You said Kiir regime
has done much in the past six years compares to previous years during
Addis Ababa Accord, what are you telling our people brother here?
Don’t you care that your brother Government sits over a dented
government ‘dogged’ by corruption, largely orchestrated by your home
boys? Do you want to mention the Baaks, the Achuils, the Manutes etc?
Dr. Akec if it weren’t corruption how did you become a Vice Chancellor
of a college within a span of few years after you graduated with a
PhD? could your part time lectures in South Africa make go up like
that? How many Southerners with many years in classes in colleges
holding ‘proper’ PhDs that never made it to head universities? You
have been quiet and now started to shower praises to Kiir, is that
normal really? Someone thought you are reaping were you never sowed.
Where on earth could an associate professor becoming a Vice Chancellor
within two years.
If I look at some people you said have contributed for the liberation
of the people of Southern Sudan, it makes me pluck a demur against
anything positive you have done about Southern Sudan. Please brother,
leave Hon. Aleu Ayieu Aleu alone! This man is a hero; he was fought
fiercely by the then Col. Salva Mathok around Cueibet, Lakes State,
when your hero (Mathok) was still a Sudanese army Officer. Let Aweil
people brag not Gogrial, otherwise you are making mockery of anything
and spoil a good celebration for us all. I must stop here for the sake
of our martyrs in Gogrial, some of whom aren’t in your today’s list.
Isaiah Abraham lives in Juba; he’s reachable at [email protected]
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