Public disappointments over formation of new national cabinet
By Ngor Arol Garang
June 15, 2010 (AGOK) – After a day from the announcement of formation of the long awaited national cabinet, some members of the public have expressed their disappointment over the power sharing and regional representations.
The President of the Republic, Omer Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir, on Monday announced the appointment of 35 new federal ministers and 42 state ministers. The two partners to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) got the lion’s share with the National Congress Party (NCP) taking 24 ministerial positions while its junior partner, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) got 8 ministerial posts. Some other political parties got one ministerial post each.
The presidential decree forming the new government confirmed speculations that SPLM would trade foreign ministry with other ministries from the national congress party and also disapproved allegations circulated in the past that former foreign Affairs Minister, Dr. Lam Akol, was the official nominee.
Former Foreign minister Deng Alor Kuol, SPLM, was also displaced in favor of former state minister at the ministry, Ali Karti, who is from the NCP.
Majok Lual Chol, a Political Science student at Juba University said the exchange of the foreign affairs ministry with other two ministries by national congress party and the SPLM has political calculations from the ruling NCP think tanks.
He said that NCP accepted to give out ministry of energy because they need to renew their relationship with neighboring countries. “NCP needs to amend and restore the badly tarnished relationships with foreign countries and to use it for lobbying against secession of the south from northern part of the country,” he said.
While Chol was getting concerned at trading of foreign affair ministry, Bulo Kuol, an intellectual from Northern Bahr el Ghazal state expressed dissatisfaction over lack of his state’s representation in the central government.
“I twice read the list of the ministers but failed to get a single name from Northern Bahr el Ghazal on the two lists for national and state ministers,” he lamented.
“How was the selection which excluded Aweil done? Who were the members at the identification and selection committee for ministerial nominations,” he asked.
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Dinka Boy
Public disappointments over formation of new national cabinet
Let NCP eat now but not latter,
The war that you talking about after the referendum result in the favor of South Sudan choice their destination would not be new in the Sudan history.
The South Sudanese know very well that the Jallaba in Sudan think of manipulation often,but the South would have not taken arms for those decades if we really know that we will give up our land and our identity to the jallaba.
we have to fought this wear till the end of everything because this mission has been our core believed when our hero Dr John Garang de Mabior formed SPLM/A in 1983.
This Sudan will never be the same again said by Dr John Garang. I guess you jallaba will and need to understand that if we response to your aggression before when we have no weapons,then how about now?. Yes, this war will be disaster but the SPLM has no intention of the war unless you encouraged it in the country.
The ministries formation at the Sudan national level conclude that Sudan’s president- Omar Bashier is completely blind and he is the one who is really wanting the war.
We SPLM/A knows that the war is there and it will not be avoided if the NCP attempt to play around with our referendum base of their greediness in the country. NCP want to have all the power in the entire country,but are they really human? If the South/GOSS got only about 8 positions in the GONU,while the North has the entire ministries-what system are we talking about?.
Border issue has been the major problem in the Sudan because that is were the oil located not because of people living in it. We South care about our people much then the natural resources.
We SPLM/A will never give up the war if the NCP want it. This is a fact.
Warning to those South Sudanese in the North. You need to pack your laggages and come to the South before the result were announced. The unity with greedy people ( Arab)mean nothing because it has no core values at all in the Sudan.
SPLM/A oyeee