Keep your registration token in the safest place ever known to you

By Atok Dan Baguoot 

"I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am." The euphoria of elections would be a lively source of regrets to most of us who still live under the yoke of ignorance, and who deem the current registration exercise as something for politicians and their close family members. 

Be rest assured that it is your moral and democratic right to participate in this exercise as it is a continuation of the twenty years of armed struggle we wholeheartedly waged against the oppressive Khartoum regimes to attain this very process that most of us see as an affair of people in white T-shirts with beautiful writings on them. 

Now that registration is over, again comes another stressful part of the process and that is to say, checking names on the register display which will be done soon as the process is halted. Names shall be displayed in all the centers where you will be obliged again to put off your chore of the day to reconfirm if your name correlates with the one on the rest of the documents and for the case of those without National Identity Cards, the right pronunciation of your names is in its place. 

I know it is going to be a bit tedious for those of us whose time is spent in bars drinking the whole day. Losing a document would just be like toppling a cup half full of bear on the table and ordering another round but for the case of misplacing a registration token, you won’t order for another one because it is once and for all. 

Try keeping your voter registration token in the safest place ever known to you. It is your visa to freedom and your patent to gentility if you are to live in the world of your dream. Obey the triplets, of your party, your constituency, and yourself to determine your destiny without prejudices. 

I won’t like any of us to be moved by the euphoria when seeing the rest of our colleagues queuing up yet s/he is a victim because you did not register therefore, you shouldn’t vote too. It is you the youth that is talking to you because the future is yours. Your uncles and so forth are almost at the sunset of their lives and careers as politicians. You are instrumental in changing this society brought down by their shortsightedness and lack of focus. 

Try to reach across the board and recover your future. This white token is the only viable valid document that can be used in recruiting new drivers to drive us to the Promised Land of equality, justice, and prosperity. It is the salt for your daily decent food which you can eat without effort from your tribal egos and ethos. 

Perhaps, its powers will transcend behind tribal lines because recruiting the right driver for your constituency guarantees justice in distributing seats on the bus. Southern Sudan free from tribal nuances is possible through you the youth, unlike your elders whose minds are intoxicated by their tribal shadows. Keeping your token well is the best required of you as the best candidate for the job of changing this nation and you will never be a victim of the euphoria but a joyous participant in the elections.