Over 500 SPLM members want South Sudan cabinet seat - Amum
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July 17, 2011 (JUBA)- South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement (SPLM) has revealed that over 500 senior members of the party
in Juba are lobbying for ministerial appointments in the new cabinet
yet to be formed in coming days.
South Sudan president Salva last week issued a presidential decree
relieving and appointing ministers as caretakers without limited
powers until consultations to form the new government are completed.
Speaking at the thanks giving dinner party for SPLM members of
parliament Pagan Amum the party’s secretary general for unity and
advised against a power struggle.
He said it was a time to consider how the party can improve rather
than individual gain. South Sudan become independent on July 9 after a
January referendum agreed to in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement
(CPA).
“Let us think what is it that you can do to be improve the party not
what the party can do for us, like now I am hearing there are more
than 500 comrades around Juba here all of them want to be ministers”.
The minister for peace and implementation of the CPA urged SPLM
members to consider other careers as there were not enough positions
"to accommodate everybody."
"It is time to start thinking let us go and do other things. Now all
our doctors, medical doctors when they are graduating want to be
ministers and there is only one minister of health . All our engineers
instead of building houses wants to be ministers. All our economists,
all our political scientists want to be ministers. It is not possible.
Let us start new culture. It is time to do other things."
Amum congratulated the SPLM for achieving independence after the
beginning fighting in 1983. But traced the issue of South Sudan’s back
to the colonial and Turkish Ottoman rule.
"Let us not think of fighting among ourselves for loading our people
for wanting to be ambassadors, for wanting to be member of parliament
and being very ruthless as we struggle."
Despite discouraging people from a career in politics he encouraged
SPLM members to be involved in the process to change South Sudan’s
transitional constitution into a permanent one. He said that the
constitutions of republics like the US and France should be studied
when designing South Sudan’s.
He encouraged decision makers to think about South Sudan’s long term
goals and not to waste funds. Corruption is a major problem for the
new state. Amum said that although the executive would pass down laws
and policies it was up to parliament and officials to "correct" them.
The senior SPLM politician said: "Build a tradition not to be a puppet
parliament, not to be a rubber stamp parliament but to be a genuine
representative of our people."
He concluded by saying that SPLM MPs should represent the interest if the SPLM.
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