By Zechariah Makuach Maror
SPLM as a ruling agency in South Sudan: if its actors were doing a proper job of promoting what it’s for, then, presumably, they should have put themselves out of business by now given the time they have killed in power. Over almost fifteen years they should have dealt systematically with the problems that they were established to solve, closed up shop and stopped selling their ideas on the media and allow success to speak for itself as a source of their government lifeline but unfortunately the Development which SPLM fought for passes over the poor people and their villages like the electricity cables soaring overhead.
After independence, SPLM has done no renowned thing to talk of, however. On the contrary, they have managed to stay firmly on the scene despite the rapid appetite for changes that have seized the niche after the independence. Neither have they simply, doggedly persisted: the Illuminati of the party have thrived monetarily from year to year with ever bigger government budgets ever passed in hibernating Parliament, more projects on a budget are administered on papers and ever more staffs on ever-expanding redundant government payrolls are in ghosts. The acting secretary-general of the party and her junior staffs has employed the tongues to outshine themselves and serve the poor with fables and deception. These staffs rank ironically amongst the best-self-paid professionals on what everyone can’t hesitate to call looting in a broad daylight.
SPLM was/is united not because of unity of purpose in its echelon but because of elites’ endless access to power and swag which guaranteed special partnership amongst themselves during normal times, something that often fails to do so during crises. Instead, the identities, norms, and organizational structures forged during periods of sustained violence, and self-interest-driven conflict are a critical source of cohesion—and durability—in party-based authoritarian regimes.
Origins in violent conflict raise the cost of defection and provide leaders with additional aids that can be crucial in maintaining the status quo, even when a crisis threatens, the party’s hold on power. Hence, the ruling party knowingly or unknowingly created mechanisms of patronage distribution of wealth with the strong identities, solidarity ties, and discipline generated by violent origins that make regimes sensible of weak temperament adoption as a recruitment strategy. No doubt, SPLM is a party that, fittingly enough, has hunted its entire genuine four-legged elephant called South Sudan to extinction.
Recently, South Sudan’s President who doubles as chairman of the party, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit was reportedly choppy on the Secretary-General, Jemma Nunu Kumba over distortion of the nomination process of the members of the newly formed Reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly (R-TNLA). Some members of parliament who were elected on the ticket of the SPLM party in the 2010’s elections were neglected in reconstituted parliament, the act sparked acrimony among the then-elected legislators who peeked revitalized peace agreement to have no rationale to exclude them since it is just a treaty with no legal basis then compromise.
In response to their insistence, the spokesman of SPLM under the directive of the acting secretary general said, the left aside old parliamentarians were not discipline to the party and their claims have no relevance to ARCISS as well as to SPLM strategy framework since 2010’s election is an out-gone event. To me, the narratives are not at itself negligent but lack of political mathematics from someone who once failed in a political rivalry, we all know that the current Secretary-General of SPLM is among the few SPLM candidates who lost seats in the 2010’s election, and any attempt to capitalize on 2010’s election as a basis of claiming the right could be an insult to her.
In the reality, what she doesn’t know is that the series of current regime legitimacy is originated in the 2010’s election. Without that election, there would have never been Parliament to mandate President Kiir in 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2020 respectively. On other word, if election of 2010 is of no basis than President Kiir legitimacy is in question, since he was mandated by illegitimate Parliament in 2018 and thus, ARCISS itself was rectified by Parliamentarians who are branded illegal today’s. What a big blunder!
Another scenario is that those elected Parliamentarians have a constituency of the people which automatically equates them as people’s choice and if you don’t prefer people’s choice then one is suggesting SPLM not to win the said constituencies again should election come. On the point of indiscipline, the SPLM according to its code of conduct should have first formed a committee to investigate and punish them based on party internal rules and regulations and not taking away the seats without proving their guilt, the statement of spokesperson has nothing to do clever-ness than just trafficking in failure.
Lack of transparency is another disease the party is enduring; What is apparent to all members of SPLM was, that the list of SPLM nominees to Parliament was not tabled before SPLM executive committee known as Secretaries, it was clandestinely designed by Secretary-General and her associates and everyone must abide by, anyone who will oppose it is risking his/her political future under the sharp Sword of Damocles.
President Kiir was seen willingly striving to get back to the party business after seven years under the ethno-political influence of Jieng Council Elders. Nonetheless, his first attempt was met with fraud and dishonesty from his most trusted for nothing Acting-Secretary-General. The SPLM acting secretary general is among the fewest political elites known for blunder, among the rare capabilities she can excel is persuading President Kiir to appoint her to the position of her choice, apart from the successful appointment is a subsequent failure, from the governorship to more than five to six ministry without a single achievement yet the echo of such failures are still wet behind President Kiir’s ears.
The SPLM has lost its prestigious revolutionary respect under the management of Jemma Nunu Kumba, the party has been turned into a Centre of brokers and dealers, some officials in national secretariats have no differences with vendors in the Konyokonyo market, any national public event are always viewed as a source of making pence for the day. Financial scandals in general Secretariats are the order of the day, this has murdered the organ of the party, make the party effective to perform, and the SPLM treasury is rifted off, party resources are direct from Central Bank to individuals’ pockets. Line party officials who have no access to organized looting Beg on other institutions for survival i.e.. Nilepet and so on.
The acting secretary general has created a structural abyss in SPLM; her management types need scholars to re-coin it again, the chains of bureaucracy are best described ‘upside down.’ Some deputy Secretaries whom she had personally bandages with are more powerful than Secretaries. Some Secretaries reached the point where they take ordinances from juniors who are powerful for the best reason known to Acting Secretary-general. Brave Secretaries who are intolerance to such bunch and questions the chains of command, end up sent off in the match; arbitrarily suspended when questioning overlapping powers of junior officials.
The weakness of the party acting secretary-General has been discerned as a window of chance for intruders who galvanized SPLM to its state of doom. In the last seven years of conflict, the role and the duties of SPLM to run the State were taken over by a group of disgruntled politicians called Jieng Council of Elder (JCE), while the Secretariat echelon was invaded by NCP-Bushiir’s orphans. The groups got the chance due to ineffectiveness and inability of the Acting Secretary-General as a principal, chief executive, and manager of the party. That incompetence were all acknowledged earlier making some members in higher echelon initiate Lobonok retreat to restructure the way forward, the event which its resolution later ended up in the dustbin of Nunu Kumba.
The mission of SPLM in summary is to work for the deprived, yet the few elites in Secretariats enjoyed an astonishingly rich and diverse range of perks and privilege. Despite all these they never cease to verbally advocate the cause of the weak and the lowly; paradoxically, however, many amongst those who speak most movingly at the glittering in the SPLM gatherings have acquired great personal power and prestige of wealth and are hopelessly addicted to the trappings of status and authority, they don’t want to point out the truth though they had known to be living in their world of impunity. Patricians at public expense, thus have the strongest possible vested interest in preserving a status quo in which government resources continues to flow through their fingers. If the people of South Sudan are not enemies of themselves then such SPLM’s extraordinary failure should not go unpunished.
Finally, this article will not rest well in the ears of beneficiaries but what they should know is that, In democratic society where citizens are stakeholders in managing their own affairs, we have the right to know the whole truth about publicly-funded institutions —- rather than just the partial truths that the bureaucrats who staffed those institutions want us to know.
The writer is a political activist and could be reached via zeemakuach@hotmail.com.
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Mr. Zechariah Makuach Maro,
Why would you want Ms. Nunu last breath online? What for brother? In fact, this woman knows what she is doing than many of our half-baked generals.
Well I may never know, but many of our country’s problems didn’t start from her. I for one, had been informing many of our senior leaders that our country and our people are the most coveted by other countries here on the region and other resources hungry countries around the world.
Protect your damned self properly chap and current South Sudan’s borders. The so-called *UN WORLD NEW ORDER GOVERNMENT or the so-called *UNSC Agenda21* which had been all along been ‘championed by secret societies criminals’ of Mr. Riek Machar, Mr. Lam Akol, Mr. Majak Agoot, Mr. Aduok Nyabe, Mr. Pagan Amuom; foreign criminals of former South African president, Mr. Thabo Mbeki, current president of Rwanda, Mr. Paul Kagame, former Tanzania president, Mr. Jakaya Kikwete, current president of Kenya, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, his arch rival, Mr. Raila Odinga, former Abesh (so-called ethiopia) prostitute criminal, Mr. Hailemariam Desalegn, his Protégé, Mr. Abiy Ahmed. Former Nigerian president piece of trash, Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr. Malik Agaar, Yasir Arman and bunch of creeps on the IGAD and the African Union (the AU) who covet our country and our people to death.
The former president of the US, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama, the greatest charlatan of old time who was brought here in 2015 by his foreign secret societies’ handlers and came lectured us that if “we don’t reach that target” in the Hotels, brothels and bars of Adis Ababa, while he was the one who sponsored the 15/12/2013 with his then US departments evil juus (so-called israelis) and then ambassador to South Sudan, Ms. Susan Paige, then the US foreign affairs advisor, a prostitute, who even married an English white piece of trash, Ms. Susan Rice. then United nations mission in South Sudan head, (UNMISS), prostitute, Ms. Hilde Johnson, then UNSC head, a South Korean, slitty-eyed piece of trash, Mr. Ban Ki Moon. Their evil juus so-called israelis) attack dog, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu and their gulf Arab states’ ‘terrorists’ Mullahs or so-called Sheiks or kings of their gulf Arab states’ pieces of trashes.
Be very careful fools, The UN, the US, the UK, their UN, their sleazy NGOs, their evil juus (so-called israelis), Catholicism ( Jesuit secret society) , Judaism, Islamism, Anglicanism, Presbyterianism, Shamanism, Voodooism, Hinduism are not religions.
TRIBALISM is the best RELIGION. And if it doesn’t work again, Then we round up the evils in *our midst Kill him/her or her* and be done with them—reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM*
We are the ‘Ancient Egyptian fools’. We have better bombs than the mighty US these days. But the evils have attached themselves like leeches/ticks to our country and over people. They even our country and our people ‘their energy?’.
Let me aprise you on lowly informed fools, Abesh (so-called ethiopians) prostitutes are not our equal, so do Nigerians, Darfur/Falatai/fulanis criminals’ are not our equals.
Game is over fools. They are going to be kicked to West Africa to go and fly to Mecca/Medina in Saudi Arabia, there are planes from West Africa who can reach *mecca/medina*. But we can’t stand living side by side with the Bantuses of West African slaves, Abesh (ethiopians) prostitutes, cloned so-called Arab of North Sudan, Eritreans, their gulf Arab states’ of Arabia, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Nepalese, Sri Lankans and all fellows, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.
Our people have been subjected *indignities imaginable by some low lives we can just walkover BOMBED TO GROUND ZERO and be done with them once and for ALL*
WW3 is going to here in South Sudan, and there would NOT be WHITE MEN ON THIS PLANET EARTH.
‘China, Germany, Russia, Scandinavia countries minus Norway are the ones who can challenged us and a few other countries’.
But for all I care, Bole international airport in Adis Ababa, would be a parking lot. The mighty US and French legions army bases in Djibouti are going to be bombed with the lands they are currently on, into Red sea, Reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.
The so-called *king Farhad international airport, Riyadh, in Medina/mecca are going to be parking lots and Ben-Gurion international airport in Tel Aviv is going to be a parking lot*
I am one of the boys who is going to bombed Eastern Jerusalem, and give to it *Palestinian people—–Islam is not a religion, never has and will never ever will*.
Be careful, game is over. Some low lives here in Africa think, they can always lives over the backs of other people the backs and countries. And think, that is the way the real world works. AFRICA UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION?!! Bring it on fellows into South Sudan and get away with it.
Where is your Pope Francis of Assisi? Ms. Queen Elizabeth of the devil infested island of the UK and their other Protégés of gulf Arab states’ bullshits.
*AFRICAN UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION*. Who do you fools think, your really are? Romans have Never ever ever colonized our country and our people. Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco were once colonized by the Romans. Watch this space fools.