Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Your Opinions and Comments Always Count and Impact Everywhere
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But to my surprise, I was being delusional just like my brothers in power at home. In all my thoughts I'd trusted the leaders and I'd hoped that they'd work as hard as they did during the war and do the same in terms of development. However, that wasn't the case again after visiting there again in 10 years. All the hope I'd have had is now hopelessness and despair. The country is beyond recognition intellectually; I'd simply term as the fool's paradise of the world. There is no doing any thinking at all, even the so-called Drs and professors and looks they never got those qualifications at all. There is no one thing that's prefect: rubbish on the ground, Kids in the streets, sick in hospitals with no food and medicines, roads unconstructed. pooling in neighborhoods and so on. It's all a medieval latrine. Biar, AUSTRALIA Ambassadors all SPLM members Nothing at all that could show the pluralism and power sharing between the so-called South Sudan political parties. After having read Mr. Paanuel Wel's analytical article about the recently appointed ambassadors, I found out that all the ninety Ambassadors are SPLM's members. Democratically and ethically it gives no sense, for the ruling party to appoint only its members without involving other parties in the Govt. like UDSF-M, SPLM-DC, and SSDF. Is this a multi-or-one party system? Bol Khan Rom, JUBA Who's in charge of the ministry of environment in GOSS? There's too much development being promoted but what are the effects of urban development going to be managed in terms of waste, pollution and other social effects that contamination might inflict upon the natural habitats of the country in all ten states? Chol Bol de Maketh Koch, AUSTRALIA Your questions are meaningless (Critical questions that...) , Mr. Malual Ayom. Why, because the Anti-Corruption Commission had mentioned on that day, from which scale (grade) and rank regarding civil servants or your ministry respectively. Why, how, who and which sort of asset should be declared. Your boss declared his assets earlier because he understood like anybody else the rules of ACC. So if there is anybody who did not yet declare his/her assets is not because he/she had not understood the criteria of ACC. I had been reading and listening the ACC announcement on radios(FMs) and the newspapers for almost two weeks but I didn't come across that a paramount chief of Gogrial should report the number of cattle he has. And I hope the military, civil and political leaders concerned have also done the same. Therefore, your article has got a political aim. Bol Thon, RSS The Land Issue in Juba specifically. To my point of view is that the problem of land is not started now, it's from very long time since so-called Kokora when the government in Khartoum divided South Sudan into three Provinces and we still continue with division. For example division of South Sudan into ten states and states into counties to payams and Bomas. So everybody claims to be represented in the government otherwise they will complain that they are been marginalized. Even few people like Murle they need their own state. So now the question is why the people of south Sudan separated from Arabs? I was thinking that they will sit-down as one people and start to look for the right way how to build their new nation not to kill themselves like what happened recently in Juba, those who died now is for what? We'd stop making excuses and start looking for a solutions. Morthon Akol, RSS Democracy in South Sudan a core principle You are right bro, south Sudan is lacking capable leaders who can reduce corruption. Imagine all our leaders their names are in the list of top corrupt lords. Will south Sudan have bright leaders? if yes why waste time. But based on my analysis, the current leadership of SPLM-led government has failed to delivery basic services to its own citizens since the formation of interim government in 2005 despite their accusation to NCP led government in North Sudan as the mastermind of insecurity and instability in South Sudan. As we are now, South Sudan is a sovereign state and yet none of the expectations from south Sudanese citizens were met. To make my comment brief, our country is at risk, democracy is in trouble and violation of human rights is a daily activity in south Sudan. So for south Sudan to achieve its basic infrastructure developments, democracy must be the core principle to drive our country and creation of independent institutions to execute laws and orders, to mention but few. Biliew, RSS Where's GOSS think-tank on development? This is a response to the article written by by Koang G. Bidit, USA, Doctoral fellow in philosophy of law and public policy, Walden University "The Roadmap to South Sudan Economic Prosperity," Sunday, November 20, 201. Great article. I'd also suggest using the cities sewage waste to produce biogas for cooking or power generation if the production level is sufficient. Since this facility would be a new construction it could use the most modern technology and be financed by a host of agencies. Nepal has a program run by the Biogas Support Program (BSP) and gives courses in biogas as well as installing biogas plants. Check out http://www.bspnepal.org.np/ as a model. Two birds one stone, biogas from a waste product and students/researchers to fill your hotels with tourist dollars while they study. There are so many other sustainability ideas to build from the bottom up. Where is the governmental think tank on renewable/sustainable development? David DuByne Kiir incapable to provide citizens' security The government of south Sudan is accountable for inter-communal fighting in South Sudan and particularly in Jonglei state. Since 9th March, 2012, tribal fighting have been going on in Akobo county of Jonglei state between Lou-Nuer and Mureli tribe but the Gallant force SPLA stationed in the area didn't intervene as they claimed that they were not ordered to intervene by the government of South Sudan. Therefore, if their claims were true then this is one of the indication that the government of President Kirr is incapable to provides security to the innocent people of South Sudan because there is no legitimate government in this world that can allowed its people to kill themselves on daily basis while just looking at them as people are killed. Since 2005 the government of President Kirr has been talking of the need for comprehensive disarmament in the ten states of south Sudan but nothing have been achieved by the government of President Kirr, there have been many reports of tribal fighting in all the corners of south Sudan but our government have been just kept silence in Juba. therefore as a concerned citizen in south Sudan I would like to urged the government of south Sudan to adjust its policy toward handling the inter-communal fighting in south Sudan. It is a matter of time, sooner or later, the ICC will come-up with unique list full of names of those who are responsible for all these criminal acts which are surrounding each and every corner in the Republic of south Sudan. Wal Winyieng, Economics and political science Student, University of Bahr el-Ghazal. Competency not cronyism Ambassadors We need most experienced and qualified academic persons to be an ambassadors to UN and other regional blocks not Kiir and Riek illiterate cronies. Marko Akot Dakbai, Lakes State Need for a more competent South Sudan rep. at UN Dear Editor, I am writing to express my dismay about the dismal performance of the South Sudan's ambassador to the UN. This guy once again stumbles too much. In the past he could not answer whether Jau was in the North or the South. But again, just a few days again, he said that part of Jau is in the North. This is utterly false and his statement has the capacity to embolden the North to claim Jau. You know both sides of the Jau Lake are inside the South. It's therefore a tragic error for our representative to the UN to claim otherwise. I think we need a more competent person to be at the UN not this individual who has no clue about our geography and borders. Please let the Government bring a more competent person, like Deng Deng Nhial, Al-Bashir Bandi and others to the UN, not this inept guy. Deng Akok, Canada SPLM discriminates its own citizens Dear Writer, Your opinion (Free education of all...) is a hundred per cent appreciated by many who want to see that South Sudan is dependent on its citizens. Educating South Sudanese free is key for future development, but the current state of affairs in South Sudan is that, we have tens of thousands of South Sudanese academicians who are either relieved of their services from the former Republic of the Sudan pre-independence era as of July 9, 2011 whom the current government in South Sudan call them "JALABA" collaborators, or those who have been in the north during the conflict and after the CPA era. Why do you go in search of foreign experts (expatriates) when you have the trained and seasoned manpower at hand service to the motherland? The current government has to have that spirit of inclusiveness and to re-employ all south Sudanese who are capable of development planning and service rendering for the people of south Sudan, while the free education for all policy continues - then we can think of not importing foreign labor. It is a crystal clear fact that many South Sudanese who went home since 2005 up till now, although they are well placed in terms of education and civil service management, are overlooked and called names: "followers of the NCP and anti-SPLM elements". Where on earth do you have a people who discriminate its own citizens while the liberation war was fought in various forms, be it in armed struggle, or any other form, and the clear example is the CPA, which was a negotiated peace through the pen and mind (intellect). Unless we have that change of heart, we will have to go a very long way before we recognize the truth The government in South Sudan has to admit to mistakes; no one is an angel or whatever you can call. The SPLM has to desist from its notion of: "Where have you been?" "Have you been fighting in the bush?" and the last and not least phrase: "We know, there is no need for an advice from outside." Lokong Baba, RSS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" 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/SouthSudanKob?hl=en.
