Juba regrets comments by Kenyan MP on South Sudan gov’t legitimacy
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President Salva Kiir tours Juba streets accompanied with SPLA chief of
Staff Paul Malong, Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth and his
Spokesperson Ateny Wek Ateny on 12 October 2016 (Photo Jok Solomun
Anyang)
December 25, 2016 (JUBA) - Juba on Sunday regretted statements by a
Kenyan Member of Parliament (MP) describing the government of
President Salva Kiir as "illegitimate".
"That is not correct. The Transitional Government of National Unity is
not illegitimate. Those calling it illegitimate government need to
update themselves. It is the government mandated by the agreement in
which the President of the Republic of Kenya was the rapporteur of the
processes of the negotiation initiated by the region," said Tor Deng
Mawien, Presidential Adviser on Decentralization Affairs and
Intergovernmental Linkage
"This is also the government which was formed because by approved of
the parliament, which is the house of representatives of the citizens
of this country. The members agreed to renew its mandate,” Mawien
further said in statements to Sudan Tribune on Sunday.
The presidential aid was reacting to a Kenyan lawmaker who called
South Sudan’s government "illegitimate" and urged the United Nations
to establish a trusteeship to restore peace and order to the troubled
country.
"People are being killed without rhyme or reason; homes have been
destroyed almost everywhere; gang raping of women by undisciplined
soldiers goes on unabated; and hunger looms large in every village or
in the forests where people are hiding,” says Anyang’ Nyong’o, a
senator from Kenya’s Kisumu County.
“All this happens when there is a government in Juba claiming to be in
charge and to rule the country legitimately. Nothing could be further
from the truth,” he adds.
Senator Nyong’o’s remarks, published as a column in the weekend
edition of The Star newspaper, also endorse the position of Professor
Mahmood Mamdani of the African Union Commission of Inquiry that South
Sudan be placed under an international caretaker government.
Mamdani has recommended that the African Union should lead this
effort, whereas Senator Nyong’o today advised instead that the United
Nations should lead the trusteeship.
Regional powers, the U.S. and the UK last year ignored Mamdani’s
recommendation that President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar
be excluded from post-war leadership. Instead, they backed an August
2015 deal that made them co-principals in a new power-sharing
government.
The power-sharing deal broke down in July this year after clashes
erupted in Juba, sending Machar running and leaving Kiir alone in
power backed by only a rump faction of SPLA-IO rebels. In an attempt
to consolidate his authority and secure more international legitimacy
after the breakdown of the coalition government, Kiir recently called
for a ‘National Dialogue’.
Senator Nyong’o criticized countries that have endorsed the new status
quo instead of supporting the original power-sharing agreement, and he
predicted that the National Dialogue is “unlikely to provide anything
new.”
“The ill-fated decision by some [UN] member states to shelve the
Arusha Accords and the Addis Ababa Agreement and seek to stabilize the
current government in Juba in exclusion of Riek Machar will not lead
to the peace and stability being sought.”
“It is not the person of Riek Machar which matters; it is the social
forces and interests he represents, or such interests which see him as
‘their leader’. This may be unpalatable to some people inside and
outside South Sudan, but ignoring it in working out a peace formula is
an exercise in futility.”
Nyong’o further referred the proposal by Professor Mahmood Madani, who
holds a political department at Uganda’s Makerere, who advocated for
international trusteeship, as the viable alternative to the crisis.
“I support Mamdani one hundred and one percent. Many other South
Sudanese intellectuals, including Dr. Lako Jada Kwajok, have called
for trusteeship in South Sudan. This proposal has increasingly gained
support the more the conflicting forces become intolerant and the more
lives are lost.”
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25 December 23:24, by Fair Man
Prior referring to something or institution or country
illegitimate, many factors must been taken into account. For South
Sudan, killings, poor economy, breakdown of rule of law, lack of
elections (mandate by people) by giving yourself power through
amendment of constitution are the criteria used to measure your
unconstitutionality. Stop and suffering of your people and regain your
lost legitimacy
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26 December 04:49, by Shadrack Nuer Machut
We cann’t allow trusteeship by UN we know well, though our
gov’t have badly failed us. Solutions after wrong diagnosis are more
dangerous than the actual problem. Anybody that supports Riek Machar,
supports war! He’s an engine of our instability coupled with rewards
of criminals/rebels instead punishment by law!
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26 December 05:02, by Joyuma John
"Junubeen, listen to those make you cry rather than those who
make you laugh!!!" By Lino, this is a very mature idea, thank you dear
Lino, this is a full message indeed but it shall fall in our daft
ears. We are like someone who focus much on where he fallen on and
failed to focus on what caused him to fall.
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25 December 23:30, by Fair Man
As continue to value war over peace, the Kenyan MP’s comment is
the beginnning of the next phase dealing bad governance. Soon, various
countries will decognize your legitimacy in its entity, meaning you
will not get recognition as diplomats during travel abroad. Some of
Ambassadors can declared persona non grata sent by illegitimate entity
and returned home. The last is dismissal from UN and AU/IG
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25 December 23:51, by Fair Man
If you want to stay safely in the international community, follow
the international standards Good Governance. Do not think that you
will gain international sympathy, when you are preying on your very
people to whom the power belongs. You failed to listen to listen to
voices of reforms and call for peace. Reap what you have planted and
wait your natural death at global scene due to your own faults
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25 December 23:53, by Biwaw
The regime which working in Juba, failed to tell the truth about
their weaknesses, if people failed to tell the truth, the more
problems will continue, it’s seem that, they keep denying the real
things of their failure.
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26 December 00:09, by Fair Man
You had all opportunities from 2005 to 2011 to have organized the
system of orderliness in the Country.We did not another peace
agreement after CPA 2005 but you believed that if the system and
Interim Constitution of South Sudan was to be in place, it will make
the Country more democratic as opposed to your militarism. Where, in
the world where the President does not the term limits in constitutio
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26 December 00:15, by Fair Man
I laughed when John Luke called for democracy in later December,
2013. He was the author Article 101, the source of mess in the country
that makes Salva Kiir the owner of South Sudan than a citizen at the
service of the nation. John Luke Jok gave him sweeping powers to
dismiss and appoint officials, whose records are dirty and should have
not passed the test of elections.
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26 December 00:21, by Fair Man
Being the Minister of Justice, he had all options of ensuring
that good constitution is good for the new and prosperous country.
After seeing the controversy in the draft, which we believed were
tempered with by the Presidential Legislation office, he should have
protested by giving an opinion, binding on the governmnet but he felt
asleep. Only to be detained later as a coup plotter.
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26 December 02:24, by lino
Junubeen, listen to those make you cry rather than those who make
you laugh!!!
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26 December 05:34, by Mading IronKing
Nonsense, this prof Anyang is an old head and has nothing to offer
in fact he should go home.
Bad mouthing south Sudan government is no longer a lucrative
business, anyway being an opposition senator that you are in Kenya why
cant you confess that you spitting venom because of president Kiir
close relationship with Kenyan president Uhuru?
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26 December 05:54, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
This is one of the most important statement that has come from an
influential African statesman. It is a sheer pure truth that a sober
would agree with. Our leaders have failed. Instead of working for
development, they are busy fighting one another. It is true that as a
country South Sudan is ran from Kampala. Services are financed by
donor dollar. It is time we officially endorsed a UN leadership
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26 December 08:07, by Jieng Nephew
Mading ironking
is one of the useless person I have EVER read his comment.you must
appreaciate this Senator for him being bold enough to say the truth.A
Luo son has the feeling for south Sudanese. Teach Dinka to learn to
live.your is imperative and never help ppl with brain.
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26 December 08:57, by Sadam Kuikoy
@ Tor Mawien
What name do you think a country like Kenya should call our
government rather than the illegitimate government? there is no
legitimacy in this useless government and there are no MPs
representing people’s interest as you claim.just bunch of losers of
your kind working in the interest of Dinka as a tribe, not a country
as whole.shame on you losers, your days are numbered.
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26 December 11:53, by Akook
100 per cent correct analysis by the learned Kenyan Senator
and Prof Mamdani of Makerere University on South Sudan situation
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26 December 12:22, by Mading IronKing
Jieng Nephew
Actually you’re as confused as your names, regarding me as useless
wouldn’t give you an upper hand in this debate coward.
The same prof Anyang Nyong’o was advising Kiir on the best way to
bring on stability to South Sudan the other day,so what then do you
think changed?
You rebels deserve hell if y’all think South Sudan will be placed
under U.N trusteeship.
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26 December 13:14, by Lou Nuer The Great
hahahahahah you are correct kenyan this is illegitimate gov,t but
we will liberate it soon
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26 December 13:25, by Wantedd Kidd
senator Anyang Anyogo’o ur absolutely right everything you
mentioned it’s true, True must be told no government in this country.
sooner this South Sudan will be forgotten state.
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26 December 13:26, by Lou Nuer The Great
exactely bro you are roght
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