“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else”, Clarence Darrow. Since the establishment of the modern state, the fight against corruption after liberation wars was a subsequent monster whose war almost defeated human beings in a quest for a just and fair system where resources could trickle down to projects meant for national prosperity and progress.
It has turned three years now since the president of the government of Southern Sudan General Salva Kiir Mayardit made a public announcement declaring Southern Sudan as a corruption-free region with the hope that since Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and Army SPLM/A is a mass movement born amongst the oppressed to address national odds which had rocked the Sudanese state immediately after independence from British.
His Excellence as the president of the government of Southern Sudan General Mayardit was never wrong because he had wanted to tell the marginalized Sudanese and other rivaling political forces that SPLM had a just cause and would live to the core values that let it champion a costly war without resources. Oppressed masses responded to SPLM’s calls for liberation war without hints. Citizens of great importance perished on the battlefields to have a free state free from all odds including corruption because not even a single person is ever taken to answer for mismanagement of the national treasury but SPLM wanted to bring it into the record.
Corruption, according to its meaning is a very tough enemy that has no definite shape or front where we can send in the well trained and professional army to combat and after that, we summon the Chief of General Staff (COGS) to tell us how far he progresses with the war. It is a war of intuition and self-confidence. It is supposed to start in our houses before the front is transcended to neighborhoods and finally to national theatres.
Probably the best and most talented military man in uniform can lose to such a fight despite the fact that he/she had credible military excellences because forces of such an enemy are within your ranks and files. Fine, one could probably ask what corruption “Free State” means in accordance with its application in our daily today situation.
Since the president made this rare and bold public declaration, members of the public who don’t have access to avenues of corruption have put on their titanic glass lenses watching to see if some of the big fishes would be trapped by this presidential message. It is still none.
It is yet unrealized that mountains of money were recovered from ghost names in the fight by the only ministry whose head and deputy are women and that is the Ministry of Labour nurse by Madam Awut Deng Acuil and Rebecca Joshua Okwachi. These two great women first won the gold model in the fight and another winner could be the Mr. David Athorbei of finance and planning who rescued our money it was tempered in the Dura saga. He has won himself a twin’s model.
A magnitude of war is normally remembered well when it has claimed senior commanders of the battle likewise, the war against corruption would one time reach its climax after it shifted gears from small fish to a big one. Free corruption state is sometimes ambiguous in the sense that some analysts can interpret it either positively or negatively depending on how one wishes because of the literal meaning of the text.
Interpretations like free to be corrupt or free from corruption could possibly be all exploited unless the impact is critically realized through the arrest, detention, and trial of suspects otherwise, stereotype of rare occurrence like when the first CPA Minister of Finance and Planning in the government of Southern Sudan was removed from the cell.
After payroll cleansing, another competent avenue of corruption is the house rent allowance which was approved by the office of the president after it had seen the deplorable condition under which government employees were undergoing.
Of course, few houses were occupied by senior directors and few other subordinates leaving huge chunks roaming about given that Juba lacks accommodation of all sorts.
As a matter of sympathy from our president, a certain amount of money was allocated to those affected by the housing problem apart from the group that occupied government houses. A tough war that requires a tough mediator emerges from those directors who occupied public houses that they should be part of that money when indeed it was intended for those who were renting on their own. If such a request is given a go through then they automatically become double beneficiaries.
In plain language, it is corruption in administrative uniform. Tolerate it or be intolerant.
Some ministries are now battling with their directors who formerly occupied those houses and wanted to be given such money on top in the name that they machine the government hence, anything to do with government is to be decided by them. The government needs to watch out for such opportunists otherwise they would wish to do their best through a tactical means of corruption coated with the sugar of privilege.
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