Whether the sun is setting for the current regime or the regime members are fixing a supporting pole, it is unclear to conclude.
There is a problem everywhere in South Sudan, but there is no one to provide the solution. Everyone, including those who claim to have divine powers in problem-solving, have taken the back seat. South Sudan is like a flying plane that has got an engine failure. Then pilot, co-pilot and crew members get involved in a fierce fight and the plane flies unpiloted with passengers.
Honestly, South Sudan is governing herself. Leaders have long quarrelled with themselves over who should lead and who should follow. They have forgotten that it is the citizens who choose the president. There is a chronic greediness for power in South Sudan and such a chronic greediness will never allow South Sudan to thrive. Though wrangling for power existed during the civil war days, the rate at which liberators wrangle for power after independence is very exponential.
After independence, liberators were like cows restrained for 21 days and then released and driven to the grazing land. They grazed off everything and are now grazing what belongs to their children. Was South Sudan liberated for liberators only? It was liberated for all. When wolves chase a prey, they chase it with sacrifice, commitment and dedication, just like South Sudanese committed to the liberation struggle.
When they kill the prey, they eat it all without keeping something for the wounded wolves, the family of the wolves that lost lives and the future generations. Yes, wolves are wolves, but human beings are human beings. Liberators should have known the truth that every country has liberators, but it is always for all, not for liberators alone as it is the case with South Sudan.
When it comes to oil revenues, liberators divide the money among themselves and consume it all. When it comes to gold, diamond, nickel and uranium mining, the miners are relatives of the liberators and the liberators become the Central Bank into which the money is deposited. When it comes to land ownership, every liberator owns an 80 × 80 plot of land in every residential area, making 60% of the land belonging to liberators. When it comes to employment, relatives, friends, and in-laws of liberators are having more than two jobs, occupying vacancies of other people and contributing to high rate of unemployment.
When it comes to scholarships, relatives, friends and in-laws of liberators are the ones going abroad for government scholarships, blocking real scholars who deserve such scholarships. Even when a scholarship is restricted to the most vulnerable students, government officials still give it to their children whose distance between them and vulnerability is a thousand kilometres. When it comes to election, every candidate is a liberator/freedom fighter, army General, whatsoever. Any candidate without a military background is seen like a hornless cow.
You see that liberators are more South Sudanese than others. They grasp every opportunity in the name of being the ones liberating South Sudan. The only opportunity they give to children of civilians is going to Nasir and deployment in disputed areas. So, what is this? Leaders should loot the country in peace and leave the poor citizens to die of hunger, rather than dying of bullet and airstrike.
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