By Theem Isaac Machar Akot
What would you choose as an individual if you were appointed to the government? Would you prioritize the nation or your individual pocket?
I personally look at these two incredible aspects of life as immensely significant in one’s legacy. It less matters. Either one has attained one or two of them at ago; you enjoy the very best of yourself. It depends on what one chooses to have and how he strategizes time to make it a reality. In comparison, history, from my perspective, outweighs money. Because making money at the end of it all turns into history.
However, the history-making exhibits that a selfless history coupled with hard work, honest ethics, professionalism, and abstemiousness is the best. Having been exposed to the most celebrated African leaders, I learned what I think our leaders should have been.
Nelson Mandela of South Africa was imprisoned for twenty-seven years and still won a court case against 150 whites. The sacrificial moment resulted in the end of apartheid policy that had shackled South Africa for decades.
What sweetens his account of the story is his manly act. Imagine a struggle of roughly thirty years that cost him his reproductive organs, time, suffering, and oppression. Only to abjure being appointed the president of South Africa at the long last. Although he became the president as per the people’s demand and choice that was enough to tell what selfless sacrifice and people’s leader mean. He remains in the African history not only for that of South Africans for generations (rest in peace). South Africa is now among the developed nations in Africa and possibly the world at large through his making.
The first president of Libya transformed African deserts into forests. He also made sure all the Libyans benefited from the country’s resources that were available. Though he later got humiliated and assassinated, his bravery and patriotism were exceptional. To mention very many of them but a few, they are the very reason we, the Africans, speak in our voices, even if not that resolute.
To sum it up, the South Sudanese have greatly missed the optimum benefits of their independence. The bogus liberators of the nation whose slogan “This is a country we suffered its liberation” have badly missed the aims. Offers have been the best and most enjoyable over time. I testified to this as per my experience from the cattle camp where I was raised. A cattle keeper who possesses an admiring bull has two events to celebrate his bull: the time for curving horns and piercing.
Each of the intervals requires the owner to kill cows for prestige. What is making a typical example is the owner of the bull, whose day is being celebrated, and who, at the same time, the killer does not participate in the consumption of the meat. His is a prestigious name as far as history-making is concerned. When he does, people’s perceptions will automatically change to something different—a desire for beef.
From the look of things in this nation, something is not adding up to what the presumption would be. Based on my personal observation, the leaders have diverted what purposeful work could have been. The objectives and missions of the SPLM are astray. I once heard of Dr. John; he told all those he fought with for freedom that they would not be the ones to enjoy the country. But the later generations, which is truly now.
To elucidate on this since I am a little more conversant, our liberators took arms against Khartoum’s oppressive government because of their experiences. Had the government of Sudan treated them humanely, though something had revealed to them the enslavement of future generations, they would not have embraced armed conflict. They only concentrate on what disorganizes their expectations.
For this matter, I am of the analysis that our countrymen place money first, and the history follows. Minus knowing that such history is dirty! We are now fed up with the fateful time of our nation.
A country where latter days are now happily celebrated. A nation where one thinks of self-enrichment instead of national building. A nation where leaders die in food like flies. A country where social classes are deliberately set up and encouraged.
Getting money in public offices to create fame is unhealthy. No matter how great you grow, people will always point at your assets and claim their ownership. Thus, such wealth is subsidence to ruin sooner than later.
Have a blessed day!