It would be proficient for those aggrieved in a nation to seek amity to resolve any discontent than through abduction of citizens and subject them to misery.

As the rest of South Sudan grapples with economic turmoil, citizens trying to come to terms with high cost of living, those in Yei, Morobo, and Kaji-Keji are facing additional calamities. They are either being abducted, attacked, or displaced.

Recently, Tombura County of Western Equatoria state befell under immense insecurity. Many citizens lost their lives, some went missing, including a Catholic priest, and several others were displaced from their homes.

Thanks to the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces for stepping in to quell the fire and conduct disarmament in the area for a return to relative calm but after irreplaceable losses.

Not drawing a conclusion, but whoever is behind causing uncalled-for afflictions to innocent citizens must bear responsibility and be ready to answer before man and the creator.

The perpetrators of these heinous acts are not strangers but sons and daughters of the soil. Let each of us know that there is no gain by causing suffering to your own people. Set the free.

Who wants to be a president of the dead? Who wants to be a member of parliament when the compound is littered with graves? Stop conflict.

Tumaini Initiative is a better option to negotiate for political disparities in the country, it is befitting to use harmless tools to achieve our goals.

It’s still too soon to remind citizens about the genesis, concept, conception, gestation, and birth of South Sudan. Those born before 1983 and soon after are still alive to narrate the ordeals firsthand, a story of bloodshed, loss of lives, and untold suffering.

Citizens persevered, it all happened for the liberation, and freedom of the people. It was for a just cause, A JUST WAR but not now, not anymore.

Any war, resistance, after the JUST WAR, becomes unjust, for the citizens now, need to make their own decisions through credible, democratic means in free and fair elections to choose who to lead.

After the great sacrifices for liberation, the children of this land, babies born today and tomorrow do not need to die of gunshots nor witness any unnecessary bloodshed anymore.

For errors we have committed in the recent past, we must repent. We need to reconcile and forgive ourselves, neighbors and as a nation. We need healing, self-healing.

Seek peace, not war.