With all that ado, we still need to grow as a people and as a nation at large. As a people, we need to nurture an internal development within us; it is logical that when a human being goes for days without eating, his affinity to taking large volume of food whence he gets some will be extremely high. We have been subjected to starvation during the war, many went for days without food, many were captured and later escaped or released, many were psychologically broken down at the war-fronts....however, the suffering at our past should never serve as a license to glutinously grabbing public funds just to settle the historical poverty.
As a people, we need to change our combative approach to every circumstance. Our invasion of Heglig was a logically justified by Sudan's invasion of Abyei, but the world misunderstood it simply because there was not good diplomatic explanation of the same, leading to global criticism of the invasion. This calls for a need to ensure that all the ambassadors of RSS that are attached to our foreign embassies should always selected by the contents of the credentials and not the the contents of their first or last names, or where they come from. They should be men and women who are good "diplomatic wizards", men and women who are sober, articulate and eloquent in their every addresses.
As a people we need to shun tribalism, I've been reading hate-speeches on web-pages such as sudantribune.com, all these are either ethnically aggravated or stems from an act of ignorance and mediocrity. A nuer should be able to view Dinka as his brother, Shiluk should view Nuer as a brother, Kakwa, Didinga,murle, Kachipo, Toposa, Murle, Maadi and other tribes should always be ready to share a meal as siblings. In essence we all need to break that mirror we used to view ourselves in terms of tribal affiliations and start embracing the mirror of national unity.For God's sake, lets develop as a people and re-embrace our traditional character of brother hood. Let's rediscover our distinguished culture of the late 1880s and be able to shape it in a civilised manner!
As a nation, we need to come together and fight corruption. I disagree with my beloved president on how he is dealing with the issue. Writing letters to the known corrupt officials will not help mitigate the vice, but prosecuting these officials will. Why did we have to take arms against the arabs instead of writing them letters if at all this approach was the best? look how fruitful the taking of arms has been....It is a high time the president sets a precedence and raise a bar higher by prosecuting these corrupt individuals.
As a nation, we need to improve and develop our institutions. An anti-corruption institution without prosecuting powers is just like a toothless bulldog. Same goes to the Judiciary that is not absolutely independent, as it will always be vulnerable to the manipulation of the executive and other powerful forces. A parliament that plays its role according the ranks, in army, of its members will always be run as an army, and that is why I total urge the government to let all the members of the parliament relinquish their military positions or honors conferred to them and become civilian members of the august house....this way the parliament could play its oversight role effectively.
Our institutions must be strong! The Central bank needs to liase with its regional counterparts to improve its rules and regulations. now is a high time that our currency should be avail at the foreign bureau exchanges. Kenyans, Ugandans, Tanzanians banks should be able to accept a transfer of money in a local currency in South Sudan as oppose to the current trend of compulsory dollars. Our students are suffering in the diaspora because of this absurdity and shortage of dollar in the South. The government need to make treaties with their neighbours and international players in respect of monetary exchange.
Last but not lease, we need to always be engaged in a constructive criticism of our government if we are to develop as a nation. The government on the other hand needs not to view these criticism as ambitious ploys to overthrow it. We have been witnessing so many political assassinations within this one year of independence what is going to happen in the next 10 years if this continues? Political tolerance should guide our leaders!
We still need to grow as a nation and as a people. This growth need our collective efforts and South Sudanese and then later the international community. This behaviour of crying all the time international community! international community! should be stopped. We have started walking and thus, we should start dealing with our issues as a competent nation!!!!!
God bless you all and God bless South Sudan.
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