SPLM’s South Kordofan resumes participation in Sudan census
April 23, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — A joint ad hoc committee from the two peace partners succeeded to end the boycott of the fifth national census by the SPLM in South Kordofan.
A joint six-member committee from the SPLM and the National Congress Party (NCP) dissuaded the SPLM-leadership in the state to put an end to the boycott by increasing the census budget of South Kordofan in order to augment the number of enumerators from the SPLM.
The committee included Malik Aggar, the SPLM Vice-Chairman and Ahmed Haroun the leading member of the NCP.
The joint committee met also the state commission of security chaired by le governor of South Kordofan, Omer Suleiman to touch on the issues related to the security arrangements.
The meeting stressed the conduct of the census in all parts of South Kordofan and the formation of a ministerial committee to address issues which remain unresolved, particularly the issue of integrating SPLM members in the civil service and implementation of some items related to security arrangements.
Meeting agreed on the importance of the protection of census teams deployed throughout the state.
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Samani
The Politics of Panic in Southern Sudan
Khartoum (smc) Sudan Vision Daily
By: Prof. Wani Tombe
The population census saga within the framework of the government of southern Sudan (GoSS); is very painfully amusing and embarrassing. The Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) politicians in both the GoSS and the government of national unity (GoNU);
appear to be operating under a tremendous weight of political confusion and uncertainty.
The public does not know who is in charge of the GoSS. The GoSS looks like an institution which is being governed; and managed by human impulse; devoid of any systemic prudence; appropriate for governmental management.
The political; and administrative vacillation over the census issue; and the rather unfounded reasons for the purported cancellation of the enumeration process in the southern Sudan; have put the integrity of the GoSS in serious disrepute.
The veracity of the argument presented by the GoSS; as the justification for its actions over this matter, cast serious political doubt over the ability of the President of the GoSS; vis-ˆ-vis his political control of the GoSS.
The GoSS ministers appear to have turned into run-away political juggernauts. Even state governors in the southern Sudan are reported to have defied the instructions of the President of the GoSS. Something is seriously wrong in the southern Sudan.
The GoSS must stop sentimentalising every political decision that they find difficult to deal with. The use of public emotions for managing the southern Sudan is counter-productive and exploitative.
The southern Sudanese are turned into captive audiences that do not question the actions of the GoSS. The use of history to permanently solve contemporary problems is very deceitful; misleading; and politically unfair; vis-ˆ-vis the people of southern Sudan.
Contemporary difficulties must not be found causes in the political history of southern Sudan. There are particular instances when we can use history for clarifying certain issues; but not all the time. That amounts to historical reductionism; and political expediency; and callousness.
The dressing up of group, and personal socio-tribal motives; in political effigies; and then; presenting them as political facts; with profound implications; for the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) is wasting our political time; and portraying us southern Sudanese as a bunch of political idiots.
No; southern Sudanese are not in fact a bunch of political idiots. They are very clever people; but for their government that always turn their political position into political farce.
The political competition within the SPLM is turning into a political panic that is very embarrassing to the people of southern Sudan. The southern Sudanese ought to begin thinking seriously about changing these individuals who selected themselves as their rulers in southern Sudan.
These people are nothing but political failures; and political upstarts; whose places ought to be found somewhere in the various formations in the southern Sudan. The SPLM”s politics of personality cult are ruining the southern Sudanese image in the eyes of the world.
Maganydam
SPLM’s South Kordofan resumes participation in Sudan census
Bravo;SPLM and NCP delegates whom God inspired to eradicate the fault early before it is too late.
Though wars had eaten Sudanese, they need not to be estimated as was done in the past.
Though Sudan was defined to be an Arab country, the majority are indegenious black Africa of Cush leave apart the orientation in religion which they(Arabs) usually estimated.
DabeJoseph Gale
SPLM’s South Kordofan resumes participation in Sudan census
Bravo ,Bravo SPLM for your collective ideas and stand strong to opposite the corrupted census by the NCP who tent to know every thing in Sudan.leave along your death leadership in khartoum ,who are eating well ,sleeping well ,drinking well ,money is not their problem forgetting those who fought with them side by side.we Africans in Sudan will remain Slaves to the Arabs untill the End of the world if although is there.and continue carrying fieces for the Arabs because we are un realistic upto toady.