South Sudan SSUDA challenges SPLM-led government

Dec 17, 2006 — The Problem of “Governance” began with existence of humanity on the face of the earth and by growth into the larger community through extended family system, socialization, intermarriages and expansion. Humanity was obliged by these circumstances to find ways and means to resolve conflicts that became inevitable. However, the institutionalization of good governance as a means of controlling the fluctuating human nature, to safeguard the destiny of mankind, to provide better services by organizing and regulating social and economic relationships especially after the primitive communal society based on nomadic life that represented the only just human society governed by egalitarian norms, social equality and cohesion as a means of survival. But this egalitarian way of life was ended after the discovery of agriculture that permeated the people to settled down to till the soil, cultivate crops and raise livestock that retrospect to the genesis of the class struggle and accumulation of scarce available resources. Such a noble idea of community formation was manipulated and abused or misused by each patriarch or matriarch who led the people throughout the mankind’s history retrospect to the slave owning societies, feudal lord societies, capitalist societies and socialist societies due the mankind’s selfish attitudes.

In the long search for a solution, sustainability and a system that could ensure prosperity so many forms of government systems have been tried and failed, unfortunately. Until the concept of democracy though not the best political system, there is no system to replaced it on the face of this planet-Earth was discovered. It naturally assumed to be the only durable form of governance or mechanism in dealing with the human nature. But totalitarianism and colonialism have resisted democratic reform. Thus, the modern world has been pitted against itself by two schools of thoughts, namely, “capitalism against communism and totalitarianism against democracy” and then many other factors have complicated the situation.

The Solution: There is no human, business, societal problems without solutions. Because such endemic problems are created by human beings, it is always possible to find relative rather absolute solutions to such prevailing and impeding problems. The tragedy that is facing mankind is its stubbornness to seek solutions to such problems it has created and its failure to mitigate or seek solutions make mankind to become inevitably part and parcel of the problems. A correct diagnosis of the problems thus represents the basis for a creative and analytic solution because as human beings, we have, of course, fallacies and contradictions that have been inculcated by our traditional circumstances and values that become the password to our lives- that means without such a password anyone could remain an outsider to any human societies. As a consequence, that is why we believe that unless we sufficiently address these doctrines correctly to safe our people in order to have their trust. And, then, from there we could engage them for a bigger agenda that includes Sudan real unity when there are too many aspects to divide Sudan rather than uniting it. These implications could not be given a careful consideration based on African traditional cultures and tribal way of life influenced by the clash of civilizations that includes African traditional religions, Christianity and Islam in Sudan. We know for sure that African traditional religions and Christianity as a “fixed public opinion” for the people of South Sudan on the one hand and Islam and Arab culture as a way of life as a “fixed public opinion for Northern Sudanese on the other.

We reaffirmed the exercise of the right of self-determination as declared as an inalienable basic human right in the UN Charter under Articles 1:2 and Article 55 and reiterated in the Khartoum Peace Agreement (KPA) of 1997 that ushers the recent peace agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan’s People Liberation Movement as the best political and peaceful conflict We believe that both SSUDA/SSDF and the SPLA have committed themselves in different methods to undertake political advocacy and political education of southern masses. Certainly, the issue of unity of the country, secession and/or “partition” of the South could only be decided by the people of South Sudan alone through a ballet box that should put on a litmus test the issue of unity of the country, secession or partition under regional and international auspices and jurisdiction. Let it be known to all parties concerned that neither SSUDA nor the SPLM could unilaterally determine or dictate the terms of unity of the country, secession and/or partition of the South. It is only the aggrieved people of South Sudan to determine the verdict of the referendum when such time shall be appropriate.

We, the sons and daughters of the South Sudan have dedicated, committed and pledged to safeguard the political destiny and the right to development of our people by organizing the South Sudan United Democratic Alliance (SSUDA), as an organization of South Sudanese, by South Sudanese and for South Sudanese. SSUDA shall seek to create an alternative conducive political environment, visionary democratic leadership, tolerant and good governance based on federalism and multi-partism that would cope with the challenges of the 21st Century in South Sudan and resolve to constantly search for comprehensive political solution to the prevailing current ethnocentric hegemonic tendencies to democratization, transparency, and accountability in the South.

SSUDA/SSDF would be dedicated and committed to resist all the above-mentioned anti-democratization, anti-good governance, anti-peaceful and political means and processes. Furthermore, should SSUDA/SSDF be pushed to the wall by its archenemies, it has the sharpest teeth to bite twice as hard as it knows how against those archenemies…. The fundamental principle of SSUDA/SSDF is ensure that democratic institutions are established in the South, that government derives all its powers from the people, that leaders (governors) are accountable to the people (governed), and that basic fundamental rights of the individual such as freedom, liberty, equality, assembly, human rights…etc. and participation of all citizens are guaranteed and protected under the Basic Laws of the constitution. It is the utmost mission of SSUDA to fight for the rights of all citizens as articulated in its Mission Statement.

Today, our motherland is faced with irreconcilable extreme political and ethnic dilemmas; underdevelopment; backwardness; diseases; hunger; abject poverty; and misery. It is therefore the goal of SSUDA to dedicate itself to absolute elimination of all forms of oppression, social injustice, social discrimination, ethnocentric hegemonic tendencies, domination of one group by another. SSUDA as a political party shall heretofore encourage the implantation and development of the seeds of good governance, democratization, rule of law, human rights, and equality through dialogue and culture of peace. SSUDA is committed to pioneering the re-establishment of democracy, and good governance, political correctness and fiscal responsibility through unity of equals and the culture of peace and in a community that’s oriented on democratic values that would reflect the cultural diversity of the people, good governance, and the rule of law, human rights protection, civil society, transparency and accountability.

Learned from the past, living the present and foretelling the future, SSUDA as a political party its ultimate dream is a commitment to pioneering democracy wherefore there should be no people be judged on the basis of their ethnicity, language, nationality, religion, gender, creed and national origin but rather on the content of his/her character. We do envisage a democratic leadership that derives all its powers from the people, the leader and the leadership that should be accountable to the people. Most importantly, we do envisage the creation of a democratic, multicultural, multiethnic, multi-religious and multiracial South Sudan. SSUDA shall seek to establish a truly multicultural democratic society through the culture of peace, unity in diversity and dialogue to preserve multiculturalism, national unity, national integration and harmonious peaceful co-existence throughout South Sudan. With these timely principles and visions, SSUDA would be prepared to devise strategic plans of action to eradicate bias or prejudices, ethnic hatred, divisiveness, and ethnocentric hegemonic agenda being self-proclaimed by NEW COLONIAL MASTERS. We, therefore, reaffirm that SSUDA is fully prepared and equipped to advance the struggle for liberty, freedom, democracy, equality, and social justice amongst all South Sudanese people.

Comments: Please, Fill free to Contact, SSUDA Secretary of Information and Culture
Mr. Peter Chuol Gatluak @ [email protected]