Take Peace, Not War, To The People "President Kiir and his new “Acting” First Vice President Taban Deng Gai should know that unless they take peace to the villages themselves and sell it to the people, war will be sold to them and may end up consuming Juba itself and, along with it, South Sudan." 28 July 2016
By Jacob J Akol* In a recent meeting of Paramount Chiefs from Greater Upper Nile, Greater Bahr al Ghazal and Greater Equatoria in Kuron Peace Village, all the chiefs pleaded for President Kiir and then First VP Riek Machar to take peace to the people by touring the country together, holding hands together for peace. This was at the end of April-beginning of May 2016. Little did they know what was afoot, though they suspected both men were not sincere about working together for peace, otherwise they would have been publicly demonstrative of their sincerity by touring the country. Now they know for sure what is coming their way: They know there will be many versions of what exactly took place in Juba just before and on July 8 when fighting erupted at the Presidential Palace. There will be accusations and counter accusations, never getting at the truth. But one thing they can be sure of is violence and more violence coming their way, exported from Juba; and they will be expected to fight and die for distorted and hidden objectives befitting warmongers. President Kiir and his new “Acting” First Vice President Taban Deng Gai should know that unless they take peace to the villages themselves and sell it to the people, war will be sold to them and may end up consuming Juba itself and, along with it, South Sudan. * Jacob J Akol is Director and Editor of Gurtong Trust Peace and Media Project Posted in: Opinions - See more at: http://gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/19715/Default.aspx#sthash.RpkeNPXB.dpuf -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oru4gdu89bkqHf2YFAKh1%2BS9FKBk0ffTje5StLTuoJQWg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
