We should give something to this dying nation's first, not ourselves

It is the reality, the fact that every man or woman with sound mind should think likewise; which my Soul ail me every now and then, it thrush my mind and heart with questions those I couldn’t really have the right answers to. I feel compelled to give something—something I don’t see in my hands and I don’t really know even what it is; but its urgency that I must give something to this Country is so strong to resist.

 Sometimes, I feel outran by those who have already gave their blood and Souls for the making of this Country in those years of struggle before me. The solidness of their sacrificial testimonies makes me feel a damned slushy, seeing the fact that they gave up all that they had to this Country. My father Baak Malong Diing died in the same row, he gave up his life for this Nation which we have attained now. Now, I could see my life of no value at all because I did give nothing to this Country.

Giving don’t stop when your father has given something or when you yourself have given something couple of years or days back, giving should be a habit, a continuous habit. My Mum one day retorted our conversation on “taking much money for myself talk” she said, “Real men are valued by what they give, not by what they take away—it is weakling when you are at the side that takes away, for the strong man is him who give much not him who takes away much”. She continued, ‘it is the distinct habit of the weaklings always, they like to take away anything that fall on their ways—they are crazy opportunists” she concluded. At first I defiantly disregarded her words, but with enough time spent, I came to realize that she was not only right, but I got the logic behind her reasoning!

I decided “to don’t want to be” at the side of take away, for I have fully gotten what it means to be “a take always folk” and how good and joyous it make one feel especially when you give what you have sweated for it, to your own Soil. It engenders undeniable joy and peace that will continue to swollen the heart. I have understood that it is only those who give what they toiled for; they are the ones who get that immeasurable joy. This is what many of us, the South Sudanese folks lucked. For we did not give to this Country something, we did not shown her respect, loyalty, honesty, responsibility, sacrifices, equity and above all, love and hard work.

We merely showed her cruelty and disrespectful eyes, instead of love, please, this Country doesn’t deserve to be shown cruelty at all. Giving, and giving much is the element that true leaders and nationalistic societies possessed, examples are myriad on this. We may cover ourselves under the blanket of very many excuses, excuses those we might think they are reasonable enough to answer to the “why we did let down our Country”. But no matter what kind of full bag of excuses we have gotten, they can’t at all answer the reality and tangibility of our weakling ill-attitudes those we nourished against this in Soil so long.

We are supposed to protect this Country from any kind of greediness; especially greediness those carry crocked ill-attitudes which emerge not only from others but even the unbecoming ill-attitudes those from ourselves. You know what, for a Country to survive; it needs us to be responsible, open-minded, lovers of good and willingly sacrificial toward her welfare. Singing the song that “we have liberated this Country, we have liberated this Country” will take us not far. I felt pity when our President Kiir Mayar declared that he has no remediation to the ailing economy—later on he gave forty (40,000 USD) thousands United American dollars to Parliamentarians who cooked their project of “Kiir must continue to be President in next  three years to come”. Those money were supposed to be used at least for building something help for this society whose situation is unpromising.

I have understood, yea, the why the conflict will never end, and any human beings with reasoning mind could be same. We might be expert in dodging the blind eyes and minds from realizing the true element that serves to agitates or provoke wars. And if that problem remains un-answered or addressed, it will still provoke bloodiest wars after this peace of 30/10/2018 is signed again. The 7.5 million USD which are allocated for peace, could be wiser if used for building hospital or for constructing this poor road. 

The newly appointed Aweil State governor Gen. Jal Malith Jal blatantly released this energetic speech in a gathering in the opening of school by Bishop Wilson Garang Chan saying, “Our President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been refusing such tough commanders like us not get into governorship, because we are well known for total-no-forgiveness-at-all, we are killers” he concluded his speech in aggressive tone. He continue, “but now, he has seen that some people are sabotaging our system, this power we will never hand it over to any bull that comes from out of SPLM no matter how it looks bigger than ours, we will cut down”. He ended his word by saying that they (SPLM system) will do away with Dr. Reik Machar and his SPLM-IO members including any other opposition bodies this time.

I felt pity on him, I realized why Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing”. Our politicians don’t really understand that when you kill a brother, you will not have peace of mind and heart either—because peace must mean true peace as well as war means wars and they have consequences following them no matter what.

Therefore, in this context, we can have sustainable peace, we can have it when we honestly confess out our wrong deeds and ask for forgiveness from those we had hurt. We must humbly and fully compensate what we have damaged without any sort of condition set to hinder the do it so well.

Rev Malong Bak Malong

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Who voted for wars in South Sudan?

Who voted for wars in South Sudanese newborn Country? 

You know what, when you do something, it will inevitably be followed with a consequences. For instance, when you lit a fire, smokes appears and too much sneezing causes the blood to flow from the nose. To come back to answer the question laid above as who voted for war? For this question, I would like to take a live example on the holy priests of God, the Pharisees—who  had been, for a long time teaching and admonishing on how the Israelite, the hire of the Kingdom of God must positively response for the prophetically coming of Messiah, the Prince of peace. Unfortunately what happened when the expected Prince of peace come? The Community went out welcoming their Messiah with ululation and shouts of welcome, welcome son of David! Exactly as the Prophets predicted it—even they, (Priests) had been teaching about His coming couple of days back; they were teaching that the Messiah of God will be welcomed with such and such great joy. This same is true on SPLM/A leaders, when they were enthusiastically saying that “peace will bless us once again!” Dr. John Garang’s favored speech in Nyayo stadium in Kenya. Unfortunately, like the holy priests, they were not prepared to welcome the Messiah with the humble attitudes, which was how He (The Messiah) was supposed to be welcomed. Therefore, what happened when the Messiah did come—finding the priests of God unprepared to welcome him wholeheartedly? The answer is, “they were offended by His coming!” Nevertheless, being offended so much on His great symposium arrival, they voted for war against the Messiah! Moreover, one day, as he was coming into the Holy City Jerusalem, a great influx met him at the City outskirts, welcoming him with shouts singing, “Hosanna to the Son of David! However, offended, agitated and disturbed by such blatant joy, they shouted at Him, “Heee! Heee you! Make these noises to stop, what is this melee all for? Nevertheless, Jesus knowing their ill attitudes and self-worthy pride, boldly said, “If these people stop to shout for joy, the stones will not be quieted!” In addition, as he came near the gates of the holy city Jerusalem—knowing that there will be Great War between Him and these power-hungry Pharisees, he wept at Jerusalem’s main gate on unfaithfulness in their hearts and said, “Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Killer of prophets and Messengers of God. How I wished that you would have known the coming day of your LORD (Prince of Peace), but you did not. He continued, “So you and your children will one day be seized and crushed, no stone will be left over anther because you have not realized the day of the coming of your LORD!” That story eventually ended with the very holy priests killing the Messiah whom they toiled for many, many, many years on his benefit—teaching the people about his blissful coming! The same is true on the SPLM/A who rallied the people against the Khartoum government couple of years back—preaching that when we will attain our own autonomous right, everybody will be very, very happy. Dr John Garang quoted that there will be many opportunities for the opportunities-seekers—using the scriptures from the Bible book of John 14 that says, “There are many opportunities in my father’s house, if not so I would not have told you”. Unfortunately, their compatriots those who were not unfortunate to get into executive part of the government, are left out severely suffering even from acute poverty—they got no reward over the same Country which they all fought to attain. No many rooms whatsoever, because when Jesus said that quotations, he was very sure about his own attitude and mission. Therefore, in my own Opinion, I realized that the only man that had the vision on how such great nation could get along peacefully and blissfully among his SPLM/A colleagues was Dr John Garang. I can see that he was the only man who understands the demands and the languages the “nation-making” speaks.

A.     Therefore, let me ask this stupid question, “Will these conflicts have a sooner end?”

My first answer is: these power-affiliated conflicts will never have sooner end. Who told you that empty stomachs are ever kept silent? War will continue to wreck this newborn Country as far as truth is concerned. Another question is; then what will be the consequences, if this bad phenomenon remains to wreck this newborn nation? To answer that; it will force some to vote also. Others will vote on footing (walked away from the Country, displacement); others will vote by their hands (fight continually) while others will vote emotionally (ran mad as you can see many people walking naked in our towns) and others will vote for lawlessness (raping, robbing, killing by unknown gunmen and dictatorship) and so on. No matter what attempts could this current government do to bring order or nourish prosperity, it will never avail since she has already voted for war against peace and its blessings. For the law of peace’s blessings says, “If you bless your neighbors, thus you’ve blessed yourself too”. The same is quite true with the law of Nation-making. For if this current system would not stop detaining, intimidating, killing, using malice, censoring Media houses, use of military diktat and above all, the phrase “we have liberated this Country hate-speech” individualizing the entire Nation as a property or belonging of certain group or figures—then we will not and cannot attain the lasting peace.

B.     However, will those warring groups who are fighting against this system with their light fists be of any effects against this well-established government, which had luckily controlled everything nationwide?

To answer that, my first answer is no. Those groups who are struggling against this system will not be able to get this government toppled down—because she has many potential grounds. First, this community she has laden, does not know their rights, because they have never been exposed to better life before. They know nothing about child rights, women rights, right not to be detain arbitrary, citizenship rights, and rights to speak up for one’s own rights without intimidation from anybody and above all, right even to strike against bad governance!

Therefore, within such stone minds plus ignorance, it helps so much on giving any opportunists a great opportunity for such system (s) to carry on dictating the situation all along—even against mere effort for good governance from the one percent of those who know their rights—they will be forced to silence. However, be very careful still, for when it comes for power; be very careful about it, for it is a very deadly beast! This harmful snake called power has two very dangerous languages. The first is, “please, peacefully leave me alone”. But another language is too venomous! It is very cruel language. It bites you suddenly using its tail (the people you trusted, especially your sublimates) and it flips up and down her wings roughly. That wing is called the change of nationalism. It had been experienced by very many empires, which led to their total destruction when those kingdoms did not answer to its poisonous bites. Very many emperors, in those stone ages even up to date, the only king that survived its bites, were King David from the Hebrews sons. For when he committed adultery with one of his sublimates called Uriah with his wife Beersheba from the children of Hittites. Nathan, the prophet, came to him and spoke to King, “Thus said the LORD, you have rebelled against the command of the LORD by taking Beersheba, the wife of your servant Uriah who served you faithfully, to your wife and have killed him”. He (prophet) continued, “You have done it secretly but I the LORD, will do it (expose David’s wives for public sex) openly, the word shall never leave your house, but concerning your life, none of your hair shall fall to the ground”. That biblical story ended with King David ousted out from power by his own son, Absalom, had he not repented in tears before the Living God, his life would had bitten by the beast—the snake called power! Very many great military men like Adolf Hitler, M. Gadhafi, and presidents I do not want to waste my inks mentioning them—just know they were crushed by the same power! When this SPLM/A movement generals were in the bush, it seemed that they had not satisfactorily enjoyed sexual pleasures—which when they arrived towns, they turned against any women no matter whose wives a woman could be, they just devoured!  Thanks to one of my general cousin, who used to say, “I love every beautiful woman, I don’t care to whom she belongs, I just got to get her for myself”. Mark this well in your mind dear reader: Any wrongdoings committed in presidential palaces are punishable by the law power maintaining!

Rev. Malong Baak

Rev. Malong Bak Malong

An apology letter to my people

An apology letter to my people

In the Name of our LORD the GOD of all the creation—and in the name our beloved Country South Sudan, I wish to apology for my people, I sincerely want to say sorry, sorry, sorry and sorry again!!!  I know, this was not the type of a Country you were longing for. You did not expect the Country to take this direction. I know, you are shocked—for you did not also expected to live in such an acute situation or outside your country either. Owing to these misdeeds that erupted which has left the Nation desolated and unwanted to live in—due to the upheaval ruse of racism? Our sincere advice is that; do not admire this regime any longer, for it had already disrepute her governmental office! Do not fear its machismo also, for it has no more legitimacy over you. In addition, the date of the ballots you voted for it’s supposedly term has already expired. In addition, what you still see now is a myth of traitors with three aims: (1) of strongly grabbed on kleptomaniacs desire to continue indulging in your national positions and wealth. Secondly, (2) They’ve made our power as their hideout from facing justice (3) They’re there to impose on us a total submission—such that we could either give in or up to their will. Therefore, it is up to us all to do something of a noble will. Know assuredly that it’s due to our redundancy and lack of enough collective will to openly shack them off, or crash them against the cliffs of punishment that that is why they are still there controlling us in biased ruling. Moreover, for this very reason I emerge to tell you that it’s time to oust them out!

                                    By: Rev. Malong Bak Malong
                                        

longbany2015@gmail.com

A letter to Friend of Reformation Initiative on S. Sudan

A letter to Friend of National Reformation Initiative on S. Sudan

Furthermore, I would wish to appreciate my beloved friend the Chairman for S. Sudan Civil Society Alliance Deng Athuai Mawiir Rehan—a man whose heart thirsted for a Country with replete of prosperity, democracy and fair governance which he stringently strove for long time but which he didn’t attained. Secondly, I wish to appreciate my Western Equatoria governor, Gen. Joseph Benghazi Bakosoro of Yambio for his patriotic heart. 

You know what; it is not too late to tell you that I am sorry even when we parted from the Nile Bitch Hotel sorely offended over our initiative of reforming the Nation—in which I sternly rebuked you over what I called ‘cowardice and mesmerizing with this regime’ without even regarding your virtue as my governor. 

But it was because my heart was in the state of burnout—seeing that our people are acutely weighed down under heaviest fatigue of suffering—the suffering those provoked arbitrary by this so-called SPLM/A government. 

I pray that God should put the same seed of consuming zeal into your heart which I suffered in my heart for so long—knowing that we are but one people with same identity—and that our problem should not be tackled from tribal perspectives but must be seen from the horizons of collectiveness. 

Owing to our say, it is clear and reasonable: if the untold plights occurred to the South Sudanese, people are to be solved—they must be tackled in wider perspectives in order to reach its holistic remediation. 

Truth must be said: for the South Sudanese people are the most marginalized, they were marginalized first under the Khartoum’s leadership—when the ideology of Islamization and Arabization mulishly refused to bend down for harmony to thrive in one Nation.

 In addition, South Sudanese tribes were tauntingly conditioned to embrace Islam to depict their spiritual noteworthiness, and to become Arabs, to portray their ultimate loyalty—those were the two sharp daggers wielded on their faces as the laws for peaceful co-existence. 

Now, we again found ourselves disillusioned by the failed and racial regime of Salva Kiir that cheated on us—to trust and vote for him under its SPLA/M: that in turn we will own a Country that would be happily enjoying its fair and good governance. 

Nevertheless, who can really believe now, that today we are languishing in hell again! We suffered acute poverty; gunshot death, illiteracy, poor health facility, tribal catastrophes and so many others. 

To speak, but the truth, we were tempted twice to mention all the names of those who have ruined our Country, but we saw to it as a taboo even to use my pen to write their collective names all—so I kept “Under Salva Kiir” for the prudence to the truth sake. 

In addition, we decided to describe their collectives names as, ‘them, they and their’ but used ‘we, I, us and our’ to make our drastic motive towards the same Society clear and different towards same land’s. Woe we are! Who will help such peoples under this heavy fatigues and indescribable suffering! 

We call upon God, The Author Of Creation, to help—and to all the fifty Countries those who ushered into our Independence, including the International Community—yea, to rise up with us! 

The Country that was supposed to bless and sustain all her Citizens inclusive its sisters Countries, is now faltered on despotic arm of Salva Kiir’s military diktat. And who may not get disillusioned by this despotism, one may ask himself or herself, “is this was what our late fathers were martyred for?” 

Because the land has fallen on all four into the hands of blind and carefree—Salva Kiir and his privileged elites! Yes, “The rain of TRUTH must rain no matter what ails”. They are working in dangerous collusions, escalating their entrenchment under SPLA/M name. We are shocked by such upheaval disillusionment! 

It has reached to the extent that we are imposed by this situation to flee, because the Country is no longer accommodating us for peaceful life. SPLM Chairmanship’s military diktat demands only to destroy those who are only wishing to have a Country of transparency, equality, equity and prosperity for all. 

These are the most neglected and impossible things to happen—and we if insist, we could simply be ordered to  come down on our knees in servile submission or else our sure hope for survival will be only in Diasporas’ accommodations—in exile, because we won’t find security for our lives again. 

All our peoples now are chagrinfully languishing in the corners of foreign societies, to find themselves fugitives Aliens in nomadic life; eating the morsels of shame and drinking   water from the cups of humiliations—under the privileged feigned foreign permissions who are allowing them to share their food for sometimes—expecting their sooner return to where they truly belong. 

This is a fact of reality; “we must turn the eyes of the world upon the atrocities in S. Sudan”. Quotation taken from former American President George W. Bush in his prepared remarks delivered to American Jewish. We dare say that these ‘trying to govern’ people, “their fathers did not provide them with toys to repair when they were young, so they turned the Country and the lives of these poor societies into toys for recreation!” 

I must fight for our societal legacy of diversity, the legacy of my Country is more valuable to me than little systematic organization (government) or polity of whatsoever—that instigates conflicts and mulishly negates our beautiful diversity, which could be fantastically enjoyable. We are ready to repudiate SPLM with his privileged elites; I am very ready in defying Salva Kiir’s racial regime: we are asserting our NO in the loudest voice! 

Woe is me if I will be silent again! Yes, true to say that, “I was a human being all along—until I reached S. Sudan where I became a dying castaway”. I will never be silent: “though the waves of the Indian Ocean are stilled—I shall never be calmed to roar, I could either have it all, but at all!” 

For The Author of Creation in whose eyes the life of everyone is better, suffered on me his will, we are impelled to add our NO, against this racial system—the blood of my fallen  Martyrs cry to me out of their graves, ‘shout out our voices’ I said, what to shout?, “quit! Quit! Quit! Let racists Regime leave, let them never continue in the power, because they have made fool out of our death, they cheated on us—they didn’t rise the right scepter, the scepter of good judgment; they’ve neglected to build the Kingdom of Equity and Equality for all. 

They’ve not allow justice to reign—they’ve broken prosperity by her legs, so that she became handicap to dance for all—they’ve become cruel to peace, leaving her trodden down under boots of violence’.

 From therein, my heart remain to condemns me through and through over my numbness in the cave of  silence, for keeping the roof of my lips locked up as if I don’t see what is occurring in my Country. If we need peace, we must value the truth: “For it is from out of the man of truth—that truth is meant to be real—and it’s in the hearts of the family of Truth that the Truth is sincerely valued and recognized above the purest diamond”. 

I never find peace within my Soul; tears never cease flowing down on my two cheeks. Happiness I wished it back, but it deserted me for good—I sleep almost when it is already times for the people to wake up—because my eyes have rebelled against me, they doggedly refuse to get locked, though I press them together with my two hands, they still ticked open. I am a man of heavy heart, although I try to laugh, it is all feigned laugh. 

Because all the sounds of my laughter, who can believe that they are feigned and fibbed ones—they are not from my real heart! Why be happy, when my peoples are expelled out of their Country every day, all my birds have flown away from their nests—they left their residues, because they are peoples with no strong-handed government to truly care for what they want.

 It takes one’s courage to reveal his truest inside out—yea; I said this for truth’s sake. My Soul need to see the change, the true one that should make all of us to get settled happily in the pastures of transparency, with justice allowed to gaily distributing us its fruits hugged by her sister prosperity in ultimate harmony for all. 

True to say it, “If I still have an aggressive enemy left: should be the man that disdainfully wields the dagger of injustice on anyone anywhere”.

                           By: Rev. Malong Bak Malong
                                   

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 My open  letter to SPLA/M Chairman President Salva Kiir Mayar

Hello, my president I am greeting you over there. To introduce myself, I am a simple young man from humble family, yet not a stranger—even if it seemed in your eyes that I have no audacity to write you this letter at all, yet I felt escorted by honesty. I have mounted upon the wing of truth in order to tell you these words—because you have not understood the call, the language of humanity. People died. And they continue to die, for your leadership, my lord, lacked coverage on life protection, the first compulsive obligation of man. Yes, those who poisoned your heart be accursed, for they’ve damaged the good substance in you that impelled God to favor you among your brethren—to choose you to lead His people. For when it comes to leading humans, my lord, it needs a vision, it’s  compass, and the tying knot, which if one lacked its morals; people will perish no matter what you can suggest. For you ignorantly worked for separation, not independence, the very question on our civil wars—upon which men, women and children willingly laid down their lives on martyrdom. Therefore, I am here to let you know that you’ve crossed the redline—and you’ve became a tragedy, a tragedy to old men and women who found themselves uncompromised and exposed to death—death of huger and diseases. You’ve became a tragedy, a tragedy to disabled and those with special needs, who found themselves mercilessly pushed into a hard life—which they cannot afford to—they believed it as cruel negligence and deprivation on their un-alienated rights—because they deserved to be taken care of. You have crossed the boundary, and are became a tragedy to these peasants who know nowhere to go to for survival—now they’re completely hunger stricken victims. You’ve became a tragedy to these poor soldiers, who depend totally on their salary—who found no wages and their families are starving to death! Therefore, this you must know my lord, as soon as this letter get delivered to you, then the mission is ripped, next will come the Great Judge, The LORD, is his Name, The Commander of the heavenly Hosts, in whose innocent blood of those who perished under your leadership lay—accusing you day and nights for their slain souls! Remember this, your arrogance had reached His ears, and your sins, have you multiplied. Therefore, He will surly send His messenger, the messenger of His wrath, and on that day, you will seek the good days, but you shall find none—you and your offspring will be no more—for you’ve refuse to hearken to His people’s  voices on you to resign!

ü  We would have considered you my hero, if you had stepped down from the power in 2013 or even in 2015—leaving the true mark on democracy to prevail in our Country.

ü  We would have considered you our hero, if you had detached the National Army from being use by the same ill-motivated SPLA/M elites who liked the flow of the things for their personalized accounts. In addition, they irresponsibly declined the supposed change of things into the hands of the public—that can enables the withdrawing (access) of the collectivity to prevail in the Country downright.

ü  We would have considered you our hero, if you have in the prerequisite promoted the primacy of the people’s voices and opinions to be upheld—but not imposing on them at first your military diktat which have drivingly threatened the National cornerstone  and made the community who were supposed to be respected and adhered to, neglected!

ü  We would have considered you our hero, if you would have promoted the primacy of justice to thrive—but not mesmerizing with your money hungry elites who have eventually brought the Nation’s economy down hastily without the public voices of saying no!

ü  We would have considered you our hero, if you would have stopped playing with minds of others in your Machiavellians at both National and International attempts for truth-making peace progresses.

ü  Up to now, I would have considered you my true hero, if you had grabbed the power by our National Army’s strength. Nevertheless, humbly and willingly lower down our power and accept justice to prevail by surrendering yourself with your privileged elites to the Supreme Court for the genocides committed in Wau, Juba, Yambio, Malakal and in Bentiu—leaving the power to its people.

ü  I would have considered you my good historical leader who have signed for us our referendum unto independence—not this truest enemy of my South Sudanese society!

                                    By: Rev. Malong Bak Malong
                                         Architect of NRISS

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Who is the govenment in the real sense?

Definition of the Government

“The government is a small organ of a nominee chosen by the people to represent them on services deliveries, render order and execute the regulations governing that particular society or community—which can be changed from time to another as merit its mandated ends or when it is seen incompetent or unresponsive or unsuitable and ineligible on reasons stipulated by law.”

         Definition of people

Peoples are the majority of the Citizens that flocked or resided in one certain large area of land known as cities, towns, counties, Payam and villages—who resided in those locations with total right and freedom to conduct their daily lives. Who, when the need for order and law arise, can resort to choose cable men and women in small-scale-form to represent them in order to solve cases those arise among them from time to time and usher in order and obligations, fine, and reproved the culprits without impartiality. That is what is called in another language indirect democratic rule of people.

  The Memorandum of understanding between the people and its nominee (government)

                                             The People

The people are bound by a law of loyalty within the boundary of contentment, or when that organ is able enough to qualify the positions they occupied—that is the anchoring condition. The people remain obedient to its nominee (government) as far as cooperation and loyalty is concerned—that is what we called Obligation.

  The government

The government on the hand must work with great stamina to ensure that all the necessarily security, shrewd maintenance of public assets, services deliveries, protection of the rights of everybody equally and open vacancies for job-seekers. That is what we called Responsibilities.

Government is answerable to the People

The people are bound by the law of loyalty and responsibility when their needs are realized by the government. It is only when that small organ (govn’t) can be able enough to realize the anticipated needs which develop from time to time or which vary from time to another—failure to do so, that organ must abdicate that position immediately. But if that organ qualifies its sphere, the then organ can merit remaining in its position as steering system governing its people.

 The government has no much powers amounting from its own, but is operating within the consented regulations—she must from time to time verifies itself before the people she is governing—that is what we called accountability. So the government is answerable to her people. And in this context, people are the ones to tick good or wrong on any system that represent them—because there is a possibility for people to live without government but there isn’t possibility for government to exist without people. In that content, government goes away, but people don’t.

   People falls into imbroglio phase when the right set is not realized

People (Nations) are likely to fall into imbroglio phenomenon when they fail to realize the set rights and obligations (that include loyalty) and the conditions those realize the true memorandum of understanding between the chosen and the chooser—and what qualifications anchoring the role of nominee (govn’t) in a form that must be satisfactory (responsibility). People must in the foremost, realize what they want, how they wish it and when they want it.

 And in this context, they (people) must get to harmonize their opinions, stand for their common right and have a critical language (boldness and sound mind)—but that can never happen except with an informed society—people with open mind, who can clearly see things with reasoning mind. Such people don’t beat the elephant’s shadow, rather they hit at the perpetrators’ heads! So, the only people who could quickly survive such imbroglio phage more easily are those who question the liability and make thorough follow up on their set rules those governing them with absolute courage with clause why?, when? How? Which? Who? One of the wise man said, “The best ways to hide a lie is between two truths”.

Coming to my siblings (South Sudanese citizens)

What has happened to us (conflicts) is not something new or strange thing. Simply, it is a call to Nationalism. It is a core test on our capacity and ability to come together and solidly unites as One Family of Nations regardless of our clans or traditions. Those elements are what prove that we are able to govern ourselves by ourselves—without which we are lying if we allege that we can establish One Nation like such great Country, South Sudan whose tribes, cultures, customs and languages differ absolutely from the others. 

The test is, if we, as peoples in the same Country can be able to lower down our own self-centered and aimless prides—and cohesively and jointly stand for our common right as people with equal interest, then we can make it to one. Some of us use to say that these dilemmas are caused by certain tribe or it is certain tribes are the ones disrespecting others which led to provocation of conflicts. My opinions are different completely; I just call such Opinions senseless Opinions. For if I am to ask that: who among our tribes escaped displacement, starvation, poor health, destruction of livelihoods and lives, what can be your answer? The right answer is that this bad-happening had victimized us all, I meant that we all have suffered its consequences—our Country has been pushed into it ignorantly and it has already fallen in on all four.

Here, the students of truth can ask himself or herself, that what is then the real problem? So to answer that, allow me first to narrate to you this little story. It goes; certain people were caught in a bad happening. That situation set them in total imbroglio, and they were desperately looking for solution. The problem was that one of the bus fore-wheel got punched when they were driving on the road to their long, long destination. 

And when the fore-wheel got punched, some began to say that the bus must be downloaded off of the items, people and everything else, which some quickly rebuffed saying that the heavy vehicle should be push. But another group who seemed to be more conservative advised that they should wait, even if it could take them long time, they must endure to stay where they were stuck in. 

These different Opinions resulted into heated argument—it got tenser against each one of them that escalated into another conflict. But by a good luck, a madman happened to be passing by, who, in hearing what such caused negative brawling, got him shocked! He (madman) interrupted them saying, “instead for you disputing over the same bus with different Opinions, why not just replace this punched fore-wheel with the good one from those hind-wheels?” He continued, “You can do so until when you reach your destination, then you can buy another new fore-wheel and put it in the place where you have removed one—so don’t waste your time and energy”.

But one from the group defiantly said, “But you are a madman, you are not supposed to be one to tell us what is right to do?” But the madman in a reply said, “Yes, I am a madman, but I am not a fool”. That small and simple story covers ours exactly!

Therefore, in this context, change is needed…

Are we not now stuck in blaming our identities minus seeing the real problems from the right perspectives?
Are we really identifying what we need? I meant: haven’t we allowed ourselves to be exploited? No equity, no services delivery, no transparency, no financial stability, no health, no education, no security, no good roads, no freedom of speech (Media houses censured) no fair elections in order for us to have a chance to elect our cable men and women etc.
For us to achieve that, we need to have strong mental capacity, open mindedness is needed, because it is the informed mind that can analyze what can avail to us common interest as One Family Nations, yea, not vice versa!

Know this: we South Sudanese Citizens are the ones robbed, exploited, fooled, raped, destroyed, killed, mocked at, ridiculed, neglected and deprived by these profligates who are wise enough to cheat us by FDs, SSOA, SPLM-IO, SPLM, SSDF and other reps in “divide and rule methodology”. 

For if I can ask you this question: that who among our tribes on this Country is still flourishing in her own bliss, then what could be your right answer? The true right answer is that we all South Sudanese are: cheated, misused and above all, we are forced to be silent about it—through the use of military diktat and intimidations by this current government. In this content: It calls for us not dwell in that fabricated lies, this privileged clique is just pursuing its own interests or let me say its own projects—its bigger is to maintain the power by any cause even if it meant to provoke racial conflicts, it is find, as long as it will keep them rooted in power longer.

 The SPLM compatriots, even the current SPLM Chairman before he came to power, he was a very humble man, he could quit the power at one glance of disdainful look; he could let go of power at any glimpse of aggressions, but now, things have changed, they are no longer the freedom fighters we used to know. But now they have become power-hungry-reps that can shed any Citizen’s blood on account of remaining in power—because they have found out that being in power use to be sweet! 

Mark the above statement well, it is the central truth: so you should know this fact, that you will be hard to attain stability, prosperity and peace no matter what. This leadership cannot do anything that would avail prosperity, equity, peace because she is incompetent to do so. For peace is an enemy of any leadership that wants to stay in power, because peace uses to open possibilities for democratic governances, and as result, it can change the positions of the current system—seeing that nothing profitable this leadership. So our struggles are conflicts based on individuals’ interests not for the public. Therefore, we are in a captured State i.e. a small number of individuals are the ones dictating their nation for personal interests.

Therefore….With those few facts I have just mentioned above—of which you (South Sudanese Citizens) my people know some better than I do; I which to frankly tell you that be wise and stand true to your common right. For days are passing by, clocks is ticking, months and years missing—if you don’t cut down the tree before it is too late, you will be too late to cut it down it get more roots and change to become an habit that never be drive out! Know this for sure, that our struggle is not against us, we the different tribes of South Sudan because we go no problems on stay as one people—but our supposed target is this privileged group who neglected and deprived us at all sectors i.e. Army section, civil section including the community. This regime has taken it for granted that this Country belonged to them minus us, the people who will always be here. 

Therefore, having understood that concept, we don’t again need to bite ourselves or one another, but we must logically and collectively join our efforts and oust out this system to step away and leave the path for real democratic governance!

By: Rev. Malong Bak Malong

Aweil East State, South Sudan

longbany2015@gmail.com