Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
November 7, 2009 (PARIS) – The government of South Sudan (GoSS) Presidential advisor for Gender and Human Rights Rebecca Nyandeng De-Mabior urged the people of South Sudan to register for voting amid low turnout throughout the country.
In an interview with Larco Lomayat, Information Officer GOSS Mission, in Washington, De-Mabior said that “It is very important for us as South Sudanese to turn out in big numbers and register for the elections”.
“The registration is very important because it is pregnant with three things specially when the population of South Sudan was reduced in the fifth population census, we need to come out and register; we need to prove to the people of the Sudan and the world that the people of South Sudan is not only eight and half million, we are more than that” she said.
“The second reason why we need to register in big numbers is because this registration will determine our fate at the referendum. The third reason why we need to turn out in big number and register is for service delivery especially when it comes to wealth sharing” De-Mabior added.
This week, the GoSS president Salva Kiir has issued a presidential order declaring seven days of public holiday throughout the region in order to enable government officials to participate in the mobilization for voter registration.
The registration for the Sudan’s upcoming April 2010 general elections began on November 1 and scheduled to end on November 30 all over the country and in some other selected countries around the world.
Southern Sudan is hit by very low voter registration turnout as the region prepares for its first post-war general elections due in six months.
Officials say some of the registration centers in the region have remained almost empty for the last one week while others with the maximum of less than a hundred voters to register per day.
Responding to the situation, the regional government’s cabinet on Friday resolved to request for 30 more days of the registration period to try to mobilize and register a good number of voters.
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thieleling
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Madam Garang needs to change her devilish and Dinka-Bor’s sinful nature undermining, destroying other communities in south sudan before talking about voters registration turnout for all south sudanese. The curse community(Bors) has to change its attitude, otherwise everything is a joke. The public is not interested in your corruption, tribalism Madam Rebeca. Democracy & election is a joke under you!!
general Achinbenchien
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Mama Nyandeng, how do you ask us to register when we don’t even know the candidate? What is going on here? Who is our candidate? Who should I register to vote for? That is not how Garang could have done it. We could have known the candidate first then mobilize the people. What kind of compaign is SPLM planning to run?
General Achinbenchien
Critic_Ngueny
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Dear brothers and sisters,
Are Southerners supposed to be informed again for what they know?Anyway,Nyandeng is right because Equaorians are still in dilemma. Dinka Bor and Bhar El Ghazel are ever ready.
Critic_Ngueny from Bor town.
Oduck Bol
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
If Kiir and Nyandeng know that nations of south Sudan are important; why you left them to be killed or killing each other and you enjoying yours lives?. Iam encouraging any innonces who have been left from death in period we spend in south Sudan here to be careful this time. This is your time,. If you make any mistake,then the coming will be really helI for you;I mean really brutal murder at day time are going to occur and nobody will care for you. You will be dead like an animal who is hit by a care in high way.
Put in your minds that you are going to register with a party who governing with out rule of law. You can attack or be attacked any one who disagree with you at any time you want or he need. Iam not saying that do not registered,but make a good choice so that you will not be sorry after election.
God bless innocents, but Condemn looters
J.James
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Wow
We need to register because the registeration is pregnant with 20 children corruption and 19 million taken to London 2005.
God Job Madam you have spoken to yourself very much.
God bless
The writer watches closely.
mohammed osman
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Even if you mobilizes the whole Africa, blacks peoples can never rule this country Sudan only under our dead bodies, all this black are all unders our foots we the original Arabs of Sudan, even the black muslims in Darfur with this empty threats are not up to your match. accept is that we Arabs are your masters and will continue to rule you, i am only stating the truht even if i know the truth is hurst sometimes, thanks
Critic_Ngueny
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Dear brothers and sisters,
Let’s pray for Oduck Bol.
Oh God! Oduck Bol’s English is in coma.I wish I knew his where about; I would have taken him to Bor town where English is spoken as mother tongue by the citizens of Bor.
How can I help him God?
Critic_Ngueny from Bor town
oshay
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Is it me or is Rebbecca Garang the ugliest woman in the world?
Critic_Ngueny
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Dear poor man,Oduck Bol.
Oh!You don’t even know your mistake.Sorry, I think you are from nowhere in Southern Sudan.I am ready to teach you though you don,t want me to.It will be free of charge my dear poor man.
Week will make you somebody in English,Caa pieng.
Critic_Ngueny from Bor
Gatwech
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Nyandeng should not show her ignorance of the different procedures. This registration is purely for elections and will never be used for referendum. The referendum has a different voting registration arrangement all together. And this is the one being discussed in the referendum law. It looks like the so-called officials don’t even understand the difference between elections and referendum. Incompetence!
mohammed osman
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Dinka bor and other black africans need to accepted Arabic as their main language , you africans are all primitive with no your own language of ecomonics or civiliaztions,Arabic will be the best language for all of you because it is the language of the prophets under which the holy books was decended.
we have now totally Arabized the black muslims in Darfur , now we will turn to you in the south if you do not seperate from us the Arabs.
Khent
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
Gatwech:
Your claim is based on wishful thinking. Militarily, Dr. John Garang was far more proficient in the execution of the Art of war. Dr. John Garang re-captured the vast majority of our territory, whilst Riek was ’pinned down’ by his reliance on the government for weapons, ammunition and supplies.
You claim that Dr. John Garang wanted to join the NIF- but with NO data, no evidence, nothing.
It’s about time YOU started putting out the burden of proof, but then again that would be expecting too much of you, wouldn’t it?
Since you obviously don’t understand burden of proof, allow me to explain.
If the model in question were to read as follows:
“Garang wanted to join the NIF”.
Then you are obliged to explain it.
If you can’t explain it, then you have no basis for asserting it.
Those who do not assert it are under no obligation of proof or explanation whatsoever.
The burden is on you to provide evidence.
If you can’t meet this requirement, then all you’ve provided us with, is a view that you want to believe in, but do not actually understand and so cannot explain.
That’s a fair assessment, no?
Every sentence you write with no proof of claims, and spurious arguments equal burden of proof fallacy.
I repeat:
Riek Machar had very little to show for his collaboration with the enemy. In 1995, Dr. Riek Machar was the leader of a virtual movement, lacking any real substance or coherence.
The government to whom Riek and Paulino Matip served, fostered a devastating power play between the two men, resulting in the intensifying of insecurity in what was supposed to be a government-held area. This power play served the government’s purpose in neutralising the Southern guerrilla factions best positioned to interfere with the exploitation of the Bentiu oilfields.
Matip had maintained a somewhat autonomous military and economic base in his Bul Nuer territory near Bentiu. As a Major-General in the Sudanese army, he had direct access to military supplies. In reality, Riek had more need of Matip than Paulino of Riek, and Riek’s subsequent attempt to put his own man in the governorship of Western Upper Nile, resulted with Paulino’s troops taking and sacking Ler, Riek’s headquarters.
Riek’s protests at the government’s support for Paulino had no lasting effect. The intensification of oil exploitation in the Bentiu oilfields in 1998-9 brought with it, into the region, an increase of the SAF and other armed personnel, contributing directly to another outbreak of fighting between a profusion of Nuer factions beginning in April 1999.
Faced with the demonstration of his powerlessness, Riek complained that while the 1997 peace agreement placed the oilfields under his control, the government’s support of Matip undermined his position and the entire ’agreement’.
Privately he explained to his supporters both inside and outside the country, and to foreign observers, that he would stick to the latter of the agreement to show all concerned that when it collapsed, the fault was due to the government’s own bad faith.
By the year 2000, Riek NO longer had access to government ammunition and supplies.. he was now without a movement. He tried to regain the initiative by leaving Khartoum in December 1999 and resigning from the government two months later. But lacking any real support in his home area he moved to Nairobi, where he tried to maintain the appearance of a leader of a viable political movement.
The impact of the long-delayed reconciliation between Riek and Garang in January 2000 was muted by the fact, that Riek had very few troops to bring with him: he had alienated many of his former subordinates.
Gatwech, you should THANK Dr. John Garang for permitting Riek Machar’s return.
Where would Riek Machar be, had it not been for Dr. John Garang’s forgiveness and grace? Nowhere! And you all know it.
If you can’t address evidence – if you have no evidence of your own to relate, maybe you should just admit that you don’t know what you’re talking about, and be done with it. That is the only point you communicate in this website.
When you give no answers – you never have answers – then you confirm your penchant for empty prattle, and nothing more.
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Justice Sudan
Rebecca Garang urges Southern Sudanese to register for voting
We need voices that commend Southerners Sudanese to register in large numbers. People never appreciated that democracy is government of the majority voters, I personally recommend that people should register, whichever locality,wherever the registering officers will find you in, Whether in Khartoum or Juba, you still have right to register to make you personal decision on whoever you want to choose as your president to a local chief. I have witness personally that many people have difference outlook of the voters registration exercise. Others want to be educated on the important of voting and others want what they will receive in turn but that is not the case. What matter as Mom Becky Garang has put it is the decision from people of Southerners Sudan that count not personal benefits.
You may be afraid to make such historic decision, however, you still have good time to register and don’t miss out to only regret later as a fool. I urge every individual in Sudan to have a heart of coming out boldly to vote in the forthcoming election. It with this registration that will give you long sought freedom not a barrel of a gun. Come out as men and women in public for the exercise so that will be allowed to practice your constitutional right for the first time in History.
Though no enough voter education that was conducted, but I urge every citizen to register.