By Atok Dan Baguoot
In a graveyard of truth
I dare not to tell it
It is trampled upon by the powers of the world
It is slain
It is killed and buried in its graveyard
It is the graveyard of truth
Reign in the kingdom of lies,
is reign in the kingdom of falsehood
It is where truth is a fiction
It is where truth remains a fallacy of poor
The powerful and the rich buy it
The poor rears it
The sycophant adores it
And the innocent are the subjects
It is the graveyard of truth
In the funeral of truth, liars become the heroes and heroines of the day
The truth in its graveyard becomes a valiant
Even in the court of law, the truth could still suffer the blames
For none tends to liaise with weak
Truth from a weak mouth tends to become a subject of a muscular
The graveyard of truth becomes a scene of genocide
Scene of lie becomes shrine of martyrs murdered in the battle of lies
It is concocted by few but enjoys the support of many blinds
A lie becomes the truth of strength, truth becomes the lie of the weak
It is a truth in the graveyard
In the graveyard of truth,
even a tongue of a liar becomes a piece of a gospel
Even a liar becomes a spokesperson for the truth
After the truth is being trampled upon by the powerful
It is the reign of a lie
It is the kingdom of none other than a lie but a lie sugarcoated
It is the kingdom where witchdoctors do the preaching of four gospels
Less live the kingdom of lie
Long live the graveyard of truth
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Meditation without exception
By Atok Dan Baguoot
When I lie on my back,
bed tends to lie on my back
We all lie on our backs
Both the bed and I all lie on our backs
I enjoy being on my back,
my bed enjoys the warmness of my back
We are back to back
We enjoy being on our backs
Sleeping has no exception
Even when I sip tea,
a cup of tea tends to sip my saliva
We all sip each other
My wide mouth touches the edge of a glass,
likewise, a glass touches my wider mouth
We all widen our mouths by several openings
Eating has no exception
Even when cooking, fire lights a wood
and the wood keeps the fire lighting
Both the fire and the wood light each other
Both function in lighting each other
They are a lighting and cooking company
They companion well in lighting
The candle has no exception
A caressing touch of the opposite sex sends a signal to a sensory
Your nerves relay a signal
A signal sends a signal to the nerve to send it
You do not know who sends who
They all send each other
They are a sensory family of sending and receiving
Our other communication gadgets have no exception
When rays of a sun radiate on a surface,
our eyes are able to see
But even the sun cannot force our eyes to see,
nor does the radiation of rays shine without the sun
The sun, the ray, the radiation, and the eye all form a union of possibility
All are dictating one possibility
The seeing
With mediation, all are made possible
Remember not to dictate on my mediation
But meditate over your dictation
Your meditation has never had an exception
When I lie on my back,
bed tends to lie on my back
We all lie on our backs
Both the bed and I all lie on our backs
I enjoy being on my back,
my bed enjoys the warmness of my back
We are back to back
We enjoy being on our backs
Sleeping has no exception
Even when I sip tea,
a cup of tea tends to sip my saliva
We all sip each other
My wide mouth touches the edge of a glass,
likewise, a glass touches my wider mouth
We all widen our mouths by several openings
Eating has no exception
Even when cooking, fire lights a wood
and the wood keeps the fire lighting
Both the fire and the wood light each other
Both function in lighting each other
They are a lighting and cooking company
They companion well in lighting
The candle has no exception
A caressing touch of the opposite sex sends a signal to a sensory
Your nerves relay a signal
A signal sends a signal to the nerve to send it
You do not know who sends who
They all send each other
They are a sensory family of sending and receiving
Our other communication gadgets have no exception
When rays of a sun radiate on a surface,
our eyes are able to see
But even the sun cannot force our eyes to see,
nor does the radiation of rays shine without the sun
The sun, the ray, the radiation, and the eye all form a union of possibility
All are dictating one possibility
The seeing
With mediation, all are made possible
Remember not to dictate on my mediation
But meditate over your dictation
Your meditation has never had an exception
Friday, March 23, 2012
Bundle of joy
By Atok Dan Baguoot
With your alluring feature,
You bring a bundle of joy,
With your elegant stature and physique,
You bring hope closer to the heart,
Your amplitudes of hoarse voice
Brings vanity to the city merchants
With what their monies and cookies could not afford
Your natural alms irk and etch elastic arteries of the heart
I wish I could customize the pitch of your voice
Whenever I hear the buzzes of your dress
My adrenal hormones boil up,
beyond the boiling point of water
Your presence next to me
faints a boon of abundance in destitute
In you I find peace
In you I find solace
In you, I’m on the shores of joy
Because of you, heavenly bodies seem to traverse their orbit late but faster
Your caring attitudes reign upon me in aloofness
The appearance of your lip dilates the corneas of
my eyes are like the eyes of a night owl on a tree in a neighborhood
When I have seen you,
choruses of my voice fluctuate like,
strings of a guitar stricken by an Ethiopian lyric Bob Marley
When I have touched the numbness of your tender hands,
Roars of my throat bellow like that of a bull
Struggling to exchange the cud and fresh intakes
With your alluring feature,
You bring a bundle of joy,
With your elegant stature and physique,
You bring hope closer to the heart,
Your amplitudes of hoarse voice
Brings vanity to the city merchants
With what their monies and cookies could not afford
Your natural alms irk and etch elastic arteries of the heart
I wish I could customize the pitch of your voice
Whenever I hear the buzzes of your dress
My adrenal hormones boil up,
beyond the boiling point of water
Your presence next to me
faints a boon of abundance in destitute
In you I find peace
In you I find solace
In you, I’m on the shores of joy
Because of you, heavenly bodies seem to traverse their orbit late but faster
Your caring attitudes reign upon me in aloofness
The appearance of your lip dilates the corneas of
my eyes are like the eyes of a night owl on a tree in a neighborhood
When I have seen you,
choruses of my voice fluctuate like,
strings of a guitar stricken by an Ethiopian lyric Bob Marley
When I have touched the numbness of your tender hands,
Roars of my throat bellow like that of a bull
Struggling to exchange the cud and fresh intakes
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Kamiru deaths and Kokora are historically intertwined
By Atok Dan Baguoot
March 8, 2012: What is unfolding at the Kamiru sub-location of Muniki Payam in Juba County indirectly impacts the then regional government of Mr. Joseph Lagu and Abel Alier, the former presidents of the regional governments. Their weaknesses and shortsightedness as founding leaders of South Sudan directly gave Arabs leverage to plant seeds of discord and hatred amongst different ethnicities in the South.
When former President Jaffer Mohammed Nimeiry succeeded in dividing up South Sudan into mini provinces, dissolving the unified Southern regional government in Juba, Kokora became an immediate subsequent of that well-calculated ploy of the policy of divide and rule. Tribes whose provincial governments were relocated to Wau and Malakal became immediate victims. The majority of town dwellers who joined SPLA/M in the earlier 1980s, especially in Southern towns were victims of Kokora and that’s why the first waves of SPLA soldiers to reach Equatoria were seen suspiciously. They literally represented forces of revenge on Kokora in the eyes of the urban population in greater Equatoria, although the presence of senior sons of Equatoria in the persons of late Hon Joseph Oduoh, Gen Alfred Lado Gore, Rt Hon James Wani Igga, and many others defused the situation and depicted a different picture of the new Movement SPLA/M.
People were forcefully uprooted from their huts and left Juba with bitter tribal resentment. No reparations were given to those displaced by indigenous tribes in Greater Equatoria. Other communities in the two provinces of Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile took it as an ill motive against them by their colleagues, after all, Arabs were not affected by the Kokora. It became the African tribes in the South versus each other in the war planned by a cunning person somewhere. The above two great leaders mentioned with the help of other leaders were all still at their youthful ages to exert their energies to prevent Nimeiry’s deliberate inculcation of hatred amongst their flocks.
Unfortunately, these two great statesmen are live and could still be seen as instrumental in resolving such a crisis. Indeed both had something to avenge. Hon Abel Alier whose government then negotiated the deceitful historical Addis Ababa peace agreement with Hon Joseph Anyanya Movement immediate roll back their sleeves in the fight over superiority of the Southern region. Alier acting in favor of his boss Nimeiry in Khartoum was indirectly seen by the Anyanya elements of Lagu as a key person in the abrogation of the peace agreement.
Alier using his Dinka numerical strength plus Khartoum behind him easily dislodged Lagu and ascended into the highest seat of the High Executive Council, something which sent a shocking wave to the nerves of Lagu and his Anyanya diehards including late Dr. John Garang De Mabior. However, Lagu resiliently recuperated from that shock, his influence amongst the Anyanya senior Dinka elements gave him thrust back to power.
The elements behind these two leaders were worse of tribalism, but the sole beneficiary of the ploy was, of course, the master in Khartoum Mr. Nimeiry, and his Arab cronies whose aim was to Arabize and Islamize the whole Country using blue eyes boys and bad boys. Their failure to have addressed the Kokora incident when we were at the helm of power resulted in these unfortunate deaths. Nothing just comes from the Blue. Current deaths in South Sudan have a lot to do with historical mistakes leaders failed to find its root causes.
To paint a clear picture of how Kamiru's death is related to Kokora and a direct failure of former leaders, late SPLM/A chairman Dr. John Garang De Mabior on the eve of the final Naivasha Peace Accord, called all the chiefs across South Sudan to his popular New Site base in eastern Equatoria and delivered to them the message of peace and above all, he told them how the government which they brought shall be looked like and where it is going to be based. Dr. Garang as a master of his own, he formally delivered his long overdue decision of Ramciel as the new headquarter of his government.
This decision was at first popularized within the leadership of the SPLM whose temporary headquarters were based in Rumbek. Dr. John Garang was well aware of the presence of infrastructures of the defunct regional government but he had in mind the Kokora incident. Collective decisions from both chiefs and other independent thinkers coupled with peace euphoria bound his decision to failure. Juba opted as an interim capital subject to alteration after the six years of the CPA.
Somebody might say Late Garang proposed Ramciel as a way of implementing his decision of moving towns to people instead of people to towns where they end up as slum dwellers. He didn’t want to repeat unresolved mistakes of the past, besides that he didn’t like to have a single broken brick of the past in building a foundation of his new government. Now, what is the difference between the defunct regional governments and the current SPLM/A-led government given that tribalism is tearing us apart, yet SPLM/A which was unanimously deemed to have diagnosed and prescribed the right doses for the chronic problem of governance in Sudan as well and as South Sudan? Kamiru deaths are just a beginning of a bigger modern resentment amongst the tribes in South Sudan besides Jonglei’s endemic tribal butchering.
Alas, the Kamiru incident has its historical roots anchored in Kokora, and it is a fresh stimulus to looming tribal killings in our states unfortunately the government truly seems to be doing little to come clear on issues of land if Juba has to be a timely capital for another period past the one stipulated in the CPA. Bari as a community was vocal and clear in rejecting the capital even before the draft of the Transitional Constitution. Souls of those killed in that Kamiru skirmish could appeal to the Constitutional court because of what has killed their lack of clarity on the land issue in the document. Those elements wrongfully described with their tribal names don’t represent their respective communities but direct victims of legal lapse. The constitutional right to own property with its other subsequent clauses of right to acquire its and interference into private life, home, and correspondence are herein rendered inviolable. Those whose lands are interfered, with and those whose private property is demolished with no proper reparations, and others who lack to put up all fall under clear infringement of basic human rights. The government that robs Paul to pay Peter has to compensate. Victims need the government to come open.
The land saga in Juba is another litmus test for the ruling party to be bold enough. The entire middle and lower class income earners live on the mercy of God in Juba without clean drinking water habitual human settlement yet the government is too numb to sense the grave feelings of its population. Handfuls of people have died in tribal clashes but the government has never come clear in sharing condolences with the bereaved ones. It could really be a young government as described. Retired Gen Lagu and Hon Abel Alier have all gone down with their shares of failures, what about SPLM of Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit whose nation-building policies are still in the chest? History is meant to reshape the crooked past. We must not continue praying to a God we have angered with and expect forgiveness. The coded land grabbers will continue grabbing lands and self-branded land owners will continue to cry fault so long their government remains ambiguous in the settlement of urban migrants not in Juba alone but in other towns in South Sudan. SPLM government has never learned from the mistakes of those governments, hence it is bound to repeat the same mistakes. It was Abel and Lagu but now Gen Kiir and Dr. Riek have fallen into that dark den of history. Kamiru and Kokora are historically intertwined.
The views expressed here in any way don’t reflect that of the institution Atok might have paid allegiance to. They are solely personal; hence he is answerable to pay any price or burden associated with as a result of dissatisfaction. Atok Dan is a media specialist based in Juba and is reachable at atokbaguot@gmail.com
March 8, 2012: What is unfolding at the Kamiru sub-location of Muniki Payam in Juba County indirectly impacts the then regional government of Mr. Joseph Lagu and Abel Alier, the former presidents of the regional governments. Their weaknesses and shortsightedness as founding leaders of South Sudan directly gave Arabs leverage to plant seeds of discord and hatred amongst different ethnicities in the South.
When former President Jaffer Mohammed Nimeiry succeeded in dividing up South Sudan into mini provinces, dissolving the unified Southern regional government in Juba, Kokora became an immediate subsequent of that well-calculated ploy of the policy of divide and rule. Tribes whose provincial governments were relocated to Wau and Malakal became immediate victims. The majority of town dwellers who joined SPLA/M in the earlier 1980s, especially in Southern towns were victims of Kokora and that’s why the first waves of SPLA soldiers to reach Equatoria were seen suspiciously. They literally represented forces of revenge on Kokora in the eyes of the urban population in greater Equatoria, although the presence of senior sons of Equatoria in the persons of late Hon Joseph Oduoh, Gen Alfred Lado Gore, Rt Hon James Wani Igga, and many others defused the situation and depicted a different picture of the new Movement SPLA/M.
People were forcefully uprooted from their huts and left Juba with bitter tribal resentment. No reparations were given to those displaced by indigenous tribes in Greater Equatoria. Other communities in the two provinces of Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile took it as an ill motive against them by their colleagues, after all, Arabs were not affected by the Kokora. It became the African tribes in the South versus each other in the war planned by a cunning person somewhere. The above two great leaders mentioned with the help of other leaders were all still at their youthful ages to exert their energies to prevent Nimeiry’s deliberate inculcation of hatred amongst their flocks.
Unfortunately, these two great statesmen are live and could still be seen as instrumental in resolving such a crisis. Indeed both had something to avenge. Hon Abel Alier whose government then negotiated the deceitful historical Addis Ababa peace agreement with Hon Joseph Anyanya Movement immediate roll back their sleeves in the fight over superiority of the Southern region. Alier acting in favor of his boss Nimeiry in Khartoum was indirectly seen by the Anyanya elements of Lagu as a key person in the abrogation of the peace agreement.
Alier using his Dinka numerical strength plus Khartoum behind him easily dislodged Lagu and ascended into the highest seat of the High Executive Council, something which sent a shocking wave to the nerves of Lagu and his Anyanya diehards including late Dr. John Garang De Mabior. However, Lagu resiliently recuperated from that shock, his influence amongst the Anyanya senior Dinka elements gave him thrust back to power.
The elements behind these two leaders were worse of tribalism, but the sole beneficiary of the ploy was, of course, the master in Khartoum Mr. Nimeiry, and his Arab cronies whose aim was to Arabize and Islamize the whole Country using blue eyes boys and bad boys. Their failure to have addressed the Kokora incident when we were at the helm of power resulted in these unfortunate deaths. Nothing just comes from the Blue. Current deaths in South Sudan have a lot to do with historical mistakes leaders failed to find its root causes.
To paint a clear picture of how Kamiru's death is related to Kokora and a direct failure of former leaders, late SPLM/A chairman Dr. John Garang De Mabior on the eve of the final Naivasha Peace Accord, called all the chiefs across South Sudan to his popular New Site base in eastern Equatoria and delivered to them the message of peace and above all, he told them how the government which they brought shall be looked like and where it is going to be based. Dr. Garang as a master of his own, he formally delivered his long overdue decision of Ramciel as the new headquarter of his government.
This decision was at first popularized within the leadership of the SPLM whose temporary headquarters were based in Rumbek. Dr. John Garang was well aware of the presence of infrastructures of the defunct regional government but he had in mind the Kokora incident. Collective decisions from both chiefs and other independent thinkers coupled with peace euphoria bound his decision to failure. Juba opted as an interim capital subject to alteration after the six years of the CPA.
Somebody might say Late Garang proposed Ramciel as a way of implementing his decision of moving towns to people instead of people to towns where they end up as slum dwellers. He didn’t want to repeat unresolved mistakes of the past, besides that he didn’t like to have a single broken brick of the past in building a foundation of his new government. Now, what is the difference between the defunct regional governments and the current SPLM/A-led government given that tribalism is tearing us apart, yet SPLM/A which was unanimously deemed to have diagnosed and prescribed the right doses for the chronic problem of governance in Sudan as well and as South Sudan? Kamiru deaths are just a beginning of a bigger modern resentment amongst the tribes in South Sudan besides Jonglei’s endemic tribal butchering.
Alas, the Kamiru incident has its historical roots anchored in Kokora, and it is a fresh stimulus to looming tribal killings in our states unfortunately the government truly seems to be doing little to come clear on issues of land if Juba has to be a timely capital for another period past the one stipulated in the CPA. Bari as a community was vocal and clear in rejecting the capital even before the draft of the Transitional Constitution. Souls of those killed in that Kamiru skirmish could appeal to the Constitutional court because of what has killed their lack of clarity on the land issue in the document. Those elements wrongfully described with their tribal names don’t represent their respective communities but direct victims of legal lapse. The constitutional right to own property with its other subsequent clauses of right to acquire its and interference into private life, home, and correspondence are herein rendered inviolable. Those whose lands are interfered, with and those whose private property is demolished with no proper reparations, and others who lack to put up all fall under clear infringement of basic human rights. The government that robs Paul to pay Peter has to compensate. Victims need the government to come open.
The land saga in Juba is another litmus test for the ruling party to be bold enough. The entire middle and lower class income earners live on the mercy of God in Juba without clean drinking water habitual human settlement yet the government is too numb to sense the grave feelings of its population. Handfuls of people have died in tribal clashes but the government has never come clear in sharing condolences with the bereaved ones. It could really be a young government as described. Retired Gen Lagu and Hon Abel Alier have all gone down with their shares of failures, what about SPLM of Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit whose nation-building policies are still in the chest? History is meant to reshape the crooked past. We must not continue praying to a God we have angered with and expect forgiveness. The coded land grabbers will continue grabbing lands and self-branded land owners will continue to cry fault so long their government remains ambiguous in the settlement of urban migrants not in Juba alone but in other towns in South Sudan. SPLM government has never learned from the mistakes of those governments, hence it is bound to repeat the same mistakes. It was Abel and Lagu but now Gen Kiir and Dr. Riek have fallen into that dark den of history. Kamiru and Kokora are historically intertwined.
The views expressed here in any way don’t reflect that of the institution Atok might have paid allegiance to. They are solely personal; hence he is answerable to pay any price or burden associated with as a result of dissatisfaction. Atok Dan is a media specialist based in Juba and is reachable at atokbaguot@gmail.com
Axis of impunity in South Sudan
By Atok Dan Baguoot
The glue binding political and tribal chauvinists in South Sudan is equal to the impunity that had been there since the establishment of this SPLM-led government. One can at times term it as a deliberate policy taken due to ignorant of the civil masses on what their government is supposed to be doing or it falls under the cheaper slogan of time for those who liberated the country to quench their thirsts. If it is meant to allow time for war veterans to quench their long thirsts, can the SPLA foot soldiers that bled and amputated be part of that? It remains your answer.
The glue binding political and tribal chauvinists in South Sudan is equal to the impunity that had been there since the establishment of this SPLM-led government. One can at times term it as a deliberate policy taken due to ignorant of the civil masses on what their government is supposed to be doing or it falls under the cheaper slogan of time for those who liberated the country to quench their thirsts. If it is meant to allow time for war veterans to quench their long thirsts, can the SPLA foot soldiers that bled and amputated be part of that? It remains your answer.
No political force has ever come to power without clear philosophy and agenda as a barometer and guiding star while sailing across turbulent waters. These turbulent waters could be deviation because of corruption, and negative egos whose motive is to satisfy personal agenda besides the main political benchmark targeted.
SPLM is the wealthiest political party still enjoying the support of the rural uniformed illiterates across the ten states of the country. Being a timely wealthiest does not mean you are never subject to competitive political bidding after all there is no clear record on the continent of Africa of a political party that is ever there unshakably.
The kind of political machinery we have are seasonal depending on the most prevailing circumstances. Kenya Africa National Union (KANU) had enjoyed the record of being the longest ruling political party in Eastern Africa. Reasons that made it possible for KANU was the charismatic nature of leadership it started with especially from the founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. President Moi also held the power mantle with a closed iron fist. Applicability of later factors is not possible in South Sudan given the nature of Nilotic African ethnicities in South Sudan.
So long as the current political expletive predicament persists uninformed rural illiterates will remain victims of impunity. Tribal chauvinists will continue inciting communities to kill themself like what is threatening in Jonglei and other states. Slack in bringing justice to culprits will persist without clear knowledge of what accountability could be and this actually amounts to clear concealment of wrongdoers.
As long as their political talks are still far from relating to political works, politicians will continue with reckless talks that are never implemented. It is a state of preaching water and continues sipping wine. It will now be upon the disciples to read in between the texts. Political goons will openly continue preaching economic boon yet its offspring is massive suffering and later on traversing appeals to International Organizations to quickly bring emergency and relief assistance.
As long self-anointed leaders proudly continue raising funds to mobilize marauding youth to inflict harm on parts of society in our watchful view ascension of such leaders into national leadership through the blessing of their tribes will just continue, after accountability is still a useless foreign term in our daily vocabulary. And as long there is no political benchmark set for each and every person assuming the position of a senior public servant whether be it a politician or any other senior public service officer, millions will come and go without a tangible score or traces that can be shown to other generations. Every leader will come to pass and dock free without accountability because it is a habit that has anchored its roots in the bloodstream on account of ignorance.
When the first minister of finance of the former government of Southern Sudan Hon Arthur Akuien Chol dared to suddenly pull off the lit from Pandora's box, it coined a theory in public minds that the God of innocent lives in South Sudan has started its work of letting those doubted officials regurgitate what they might have wrongfully swallowed. It is the start of accountability if capitalizes upon, and it is the start of name tagging dignified personalities suspiciously likely to go away with public debts.
In the traditional practices of most African communities across the region, when a person has sensed an end of his/her life in serious sickness, close relatives come around that person to interrogate him/her to reveal if he or is still in possession of somebody’s belongings so that it is refunded or compensated before death. It is believed that if a person dies with debts it brings bad omens to both his soul and the offspring still alive. It is a traditional method of accountability without referring to a court of law. People were honest and mindful of whatever legacy they might leave behind, whereas it also cleanses one soul from sins committed while still alive.
The views expressed here in any way don’t reflect that of the institution Atok might have paid allegiance to. They are solely a person; hence he is answerable to pay any price or burden associated with a result of dissatisfaction.
SPLM is the wealthiest political party still enjoying the support of the rural uniformed illiterates across the ten states of the country. Being a timely wealthiest does not mean you are never subject to competitive political bidding after all there is no clear record on the continent of Africa of a political party that is ever there unshakably.
The kind of political machinery we have are seasonal depending on the most prevailing circumstances. Kenya Africa National Union (KANU) had enjoyed the record of being the longest ruling political party in Eastern Africa. Reasons that made it possible for KANU was the charismatic nature of leadership it started with especially from the founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. President Moi also held the power mantle with a closed iron fist. Applicability of later factors is not possible in South Sudan given the nature of Nilotic African ethnicities in South Sudan.
So long as the current political expletive predicament persists uninformed rural illiterates will remain victims of impunity. Tribal chauvinists will continue inciting communities to kill themself like what is threatening in Jonglei and other states. Slack in bringing justice to culprits will persist without clear knowledge of what accountability could be and this actually amounts to clear concealment of wrongdoers.
As long as their political talks are still far from relating to political works, politicians will continue with reckless talks that are never implemented. It is a state of preaching water and continues sipping wine. It will now be upon the disciples to read in between the texts. Political goons will openly continue preaching economic boon yet its offspring is massive suffering and later on traversing appeals to International Organizations to quickly bring emergency and relief assistance.
As long self-anointed leaders proudly continue raising funds to mobilize marauding youth to inflict harm on parts of society in our watchful view ascension of such leaders into national leadership through the blessing of their tribes will just continue, after accountability is still a useless foreign term in our daily vocabulary. And as long there is no political benchmark set for each and every person assuming the position of a senior public servant whether be it a politician or any other senior public service officer, millions will come and go without a tangible score or traces that can be shown to other generations. Every leader will come to pass and dock free without accountability because it is a habit that has anchored its roots in the bloodstream on account of ignorance.
When the first minister of finance of the former government of Southern Sudan Hon Arthur Akuien Chol dared to suddenly pull off the lit from Pandora's box, it coined a theory in public minds that the God of innocent lives in South Sudan has started its work of letting those doubted officials regurgitate what they might have wrongfully swallowed. It is the start of accountability if capitalizes upon, and it is the start of name tagging dignified personalities suspiciously likely to go away with public debts.
In the traditional practices of most African communities across the region, when a person has sensed an end of his/her life in serious sickness, close relatives come around that person to interrogate him/her to reveal if he or is still in possession of somebody’s belongings so that it is refunded or compensated before death. It is believed that if a person dies with debts it brings bad omens to both his soul and the offspring still alive. It is a traditional method of accountability without referring to a court of law. People were honest and mindful of whatever legacy they might leave behind, whereas it also cleanses one soul from sins committed while still alive.
The views expressed here in any way don’t reflect that of the institution Atok might have paid allegiance to. They are solely a person; hence he is answerable to pay any price or burden associated with a result of dissatisfaction.
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