Kiir: Independent South will form broad-based government
By Julius N. Uma
January 8, 2011 (JUBA) – South Sudan President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, has said that he plans to establishment of a broad-based government, after region becomes independent on July 9.Final results on Monday for South Sudan’s self determination saw 99 percent of voters declaring they wanted to region to secede from the North.
“The announcement of the self-determination referendum results marked the end of the era of the long struggle. At the same time, it will mark the beginning of a new era in our history,” Kiir said.
The semi-autonomous region successfully completed a long-awaited referendum, where 98.83 percent of voters chose separation during the week-long exercise. The vote was a key part of Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended decades of war between the countries North and South.
By peacefully conducting its referendum, the president said, South Sudan clearly demonstrated to the whole world that it remains committed to equality, justice, democracy and the rule of law in accordance with internationally accepted principles.
Kiir, also Sudan’s first vice-president paid tribute to John Garang, the former Southern Sudan leader who died in a 2005 helicopter crash, just months after signing the CPA. Kiir as Garang’s deputy assumed his current positions after Garang died.
The South’s president also praised those who had lost their lives in the two-decade struggle. The UN estimate that two million people died in the conflict, mainly through malnutrition and disease.
“By successfully participating in the referendum, you have voted for the ideals of what inspired our liberators who started the struggle since its inception in 1983. With this, you have already chosen the path of permanent peace, human dignity and nationhood,” Kiir remarked hours after his return from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.
The South Sudan leader specifically lauded Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and his National Congress Party (NCP), members of Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), African Union, Arab League and the UN over what he referred to as their persistent dedication to towards ending one of Africa’s longest civil wars.
Meanwhile, president Kiir, who earlier received a hero’s welcome on arrival from Khartoum, repeated his government’s commitment towards working with other partners to ensure that US sanctions imposed on Sudan are permanently removed.
The country’s $36bn debt owed to multilateral institutions and peaceful resolutions to the conflict in Sudan’s troubled western region of Darfur were some of the key issues, that need to be reviewed Kiir said.
He further appealed to the southern population to leave behind the long history of war and instead adopt the culture of peace and nation building, based on patriotism.
“The legacy of war will still stay with us for some time to come. But lets us not forget to build our own country after all these long years of war and instability. We must protect the new nation and never at all cost take it back to war,” the South Sudan leader, clad in his trademark hat, remarked.
South Sudan’s post-referendum period, its leader assured, will now focus on the outstanding issues within the CPA, citing the Abyei referendum, border demarcation question and matters concerning the sharing of the oil revenues.
According to Kiir, the SPLM will continue engaging its partners within the Khartoum-based NCP to ensure that popular consultations in Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states are amicably resolved and solutions sought.
The president repeated his stand against corrupt practices, and outlined his government’s commitment towards addressing food security, education, primary health care as well as rural transformation.
“The government encourages zero tolerance for corruption. By the way, people tend to think it is men, who are corrupt, but this time, the fight against corruption will involve probing everyone, including women,” said Kiir, amidst laughter.
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Quol Quot
Kiir: Independent South will form broad-based government
TIME TO BEGIN LIBERATION OF BOR/JONGLEI
We have just finished the S. Sudan lberation. Our next liberation will be on Murle. This liberation has to happen, otherwise, our fight against the Arab will be meaningless because a total freedom has not been achieved in Jonglei state and especially in our home counties. All we need is to gather our youth, where ever they maybe and then lead our next struggle against the murle. They are our next oppressors and we have to achieve your our freedom at all cost. They are doing what Arab was not even doing to us: Arab was concerned mainly with oil. Murle is killing our mothers and fathers and abducting and selling our children. They are taking away our wealth in forms of cattle. Is this the community we have to work for?
We need all our youth from Bor including those that are driving tanks in Abyei right now, whose their children and parents are being slaughter and sold. This youth is from Bor first before they are from S. Sudan. This has to happen, otherwise life for our community will be meaningless on earth. Towns cannot accommodate all villagers. The murle needs to be defeated and faced seriously with destruction in order to stop this barabaric act that is not found anywhere in the world except in Jonglei.
folks, don’t wait for this Salva’s gov’t to release you from JIU and your other units to give you a green light. We just have to mobilize ourselves and do what Lou Nuer did to Murle. This is the only medicine they need. All else will fail.
To those who worry about the ICC. Does the ICC endorse killing and selling of other human beings? In their countries, what do they do to people who kill other people?
War between us and the Murle must begin as soon as the Arabs are out of the south.
What will prevent this war is when the Murle as a community sit down and stop all their people from raiding our elderly and children when our youth is busy in S. Sudan army.
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Deng E. Manyuon
Kiir: Independent South will form broad-based government
A broad-based government will be a positive starting point to the nation building process.
As long as Salva Kiir is leading the interim government of the new nation, there will be no fear of instability during the interim period.
Deng
Bol Deng
Kiir: Independent South will form broad-based government
Dear Southerners,
SPLM/A has been struggling from the war within and outside for decades but our great party with strong leaders endure it other Arab North would have been dancing in the South by now.
You can imagine what would have happened if SPLM/A response to those war within in a full scale and leave the NCP to the other side. Certainly, the North would have won the war because they would get one by one after we all had eliminate each other for the war of food and power. I am glad that SPLM/A had strong leaders who can not listened to within stuffs.
I want to tell others who complain that SPLM has ruled the South without others. I condemned all of you because SPLM/A was fighting Arab North without and single pay,it was just a matter of freeing Southerners from Jallaba. This must be a warning to those wishes who think that SPLM leaders should step down. Something like that can not happened in this soil unless someone loss just be democratic election but not stepping down.
Dear brothers watched some videos or listened to song sung by our SPLA during the war whether you will not wipe the tears for the suffering that our leaders and our SPLA endure the brutal hardship without food, shelter, water,and many other material lifes but just to liberate all weak heart who just think about food and no more.
I am not a leader in SPLM but our heros deserved respect for their well-done job during the war. I wish they human has power i would have brought our fallen heros to witness these days and latter let them go but i can not do this.
For those like Gatwech, we all know that you are just a child who know nothing about SPLM and its leaders and that is why you said that Salva Kiir should step down. If he step down whom do you think will be a leader and who will respect him? think twice my dear other you are among those who want our young nation to fall next to Somalia. This time, any aggression or power struggled will not survive in the South because you will seriously bear the consequences and you will not forget the day you were born.
Dear Southerners let respect Salva Kiir in his leadership because he fought for it and he really know how his soldiers and the leaders on top or below on him died for this land.
I always go with something respectful but want the disrespectful went out of control then i really response to the way someone needed.
Warning! let stop power greedy and we will be fine other we will chose from good or bad. Thanks
Miamangawai
Kiir: Independent South will form broad-based government
What brings about the issue of Ngudeng and Murle to this article? The president himself was emphasing upon his plan to establish a broad-based government and your idiot thinking drives you to consider your Ngudeng as another prophet after the death of Jesus Christ. Is it your prophet Ngudeng who told you to hate the Murle? Murle are pure Southern Sudanese who are just trying to find a way how to become rich through looting in Jonglei. It is a foolish idea to consider the Murle as another enemies more than the jalaba. What the Jalaba did to Southerner start from 1955 upto the end todays referendum, did the murle did to any of you?