Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
February 22, 2011 (JUBA) – The Vice President of the emerging independent state of South Sudan has called upon professors and lecturers of various universities in the region to use their acquired knowledge and assist the government in the daunting task of building the new independent state on a solid foundation.
Riek Machar, who delivered the message on Tuesday during a founding conference of ‘South Sudan Academics Forum for Development’ attended by professors and lecturers from universities across the region, informed the academics that the government has identified about 60 objectives to achieve in the process of new state building.
He called on them to apply their expertise and carry out researches that can be supported by the government in finding solutions to the challenges ahead in various sectors.
Machar said one of the pressing issues to tackle in the new state building is to develop a strategy that will create a strong sense of national identity, as a primary identity among the people of South Sudan, rather than tribal identity.
South Sudan celebrates its ethnic diversity and various cultural heritages, he said, but that these should be secondary.
The Vice President also stressed the need to establish research institutions and develop a high quality school curriculum in the emerging independent state. He revealed that 60% of the current employees in Southern Sudan have no skills.
On governance, Machar told the academics that it was important to encourage inclusive political processes, advising that the approach was important for a successful governance system in state building, in order to manage the transition to statehood.
He expressed his preference for maintaining the presidential system of governance and opposed the parliamentary system. He argued that in the future, governance ministers in the executive would not be allowed to serve as parliamentarians.
A president is elected to translate and implement the program of his or her political party in the government through appointed competent members of the executive, he said, adding that the implementing ministers in the executive should therefore draw their powers from the president and not from parliament as may be the case in the parliamentary system of governance.
He also expressed his support to presidential term limits, no matter how brilliant the person in power is, saying it was important to retain the opportunity for the renewal of ideas.
Earlier, the academia expressed concern over their non-participation in the processes being undertaken by the government.
Machar told the assembled of the need for their participation in the Southern Sudan 2011 Taskforce, especially on issues that needed scientific research in order to guide the decision making processes of the government.
He said the government plans to establish a Strategic Planning Council that will incorporate academics from various specialisations, to serve as think-tank for the new state.
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Dito
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Great idea machar!, you are always beaming with ideas that could benefit our nation.
Inclusion of academia in the development could foster indepth knowledge in bringing about a change.
Maburuk.
Jeti
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Dr. Riek Machar,
Your thoughts have been improving nowadays in the South. We will now forget and forgive your previous weaknesses and mistakes. We have couple of professors in the South and they are useless.
Dr. Lam Akol, I know you are a Dr. but I don’t know the sweetness of your doctorate. You need to confess and humble yourself to the people of South Sudan and serve them like Dr. Riek Machar and other Doctorates.
manyang mawech
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
That is what we all always expect from leaders as president kiir and you. i believe it will be good move if the gov’t include professors and lecturers into gov’t.
no doubt whenever, you comments of anything it is always make sense.as i see many people in southsudan do not realize that southsudan is belong to everyone who is southerner but some groups do not think that way they think that they own it. not long ago, it was month, that group, picked themselves to review interim constitution without involvement of other parties however, at last when you went to, your advices changed it which be came involvement of rest parties.
you are the leaders of south and the future of south will depend on you if you make everything right now,it will help or guide next generation to follow if you will fail to do so, it will be count on you. constitution of country, it needs inclusiveness of any group such as church leaders, civil societies and so on but it is not be done by certain group which shall make bias on it. greedy of power, it is worse sin of human being as we all witness on many countries however,we must be careful of that.
i aprociate president kiir for realizing of involvement of other parties is matter after first mistake.
dengtaath
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Well digested thoughts are always getting place inside the audients, we love your strategic thinking Dr.Machar.
Machar has only one way interest, building a peaceful new state.
May God bless him
Bol Deng
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Mr reporter and likes,
This report has been well received yesterday when Dr Benjamin Marial , minister of education, and university for professors when they announced that there were many university from 4 universities in the South Sudan seeking admission.
You are plagiarizing my dear because you are enforcing words that has never said by Riek Machar.
When and how are you going to learn to report thorough and accredited messege to the public.
Please, refrained from your ethical reports in which you always jump a head to report the meeting and put the proposed one to Riek Machar.
I heard this and you and your group get ashamed about your self promotion. Thanks
junub
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Please give yourself break about term limit because there’s nothing wrong with how far one can rule if indeed he/she governed well and is loved by South Sudan majority.
Traitor Riek Machar has to know if he doesn’t know that there’re countries now ruled without term limit and they are better off than those who had the term limit to be in the office. To name few of these countries are the Canada and the United Kingdom.
So please excuse yourself from repeating your nonsese crap about the term limit.
About tribalism, I don’t know who do you think is very stupid to listen to you meanwhile you were the chief architect of tribalim.
Probably you should talk to yourself Riak Machar because you was the one who introduced tribalism among South Sudanese people in 1991.
You are the one who moblized your pro-Arab Nuer militiamen to fight tribal war against the Dinka people, and as well handed back all liberated towns in Nuer area which were actually liberated by Dinka worriors to your master Arab at the time.
So don’t you talk to us about tribalism because we know who you are and we can’t cleaned shit after you done the mess. Either you take the spade and cleaned yourself, or else smell your own stingy shit.
Not only that, yo
Omoni Atari
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
I do not understand why Dinka and Nuer are fighting on this website too much ,and yet both of them are sucking and looting this pre-matured government.Many Dinka and thought that they are really educated,meanwhiles they still contained nothing their brain just only cow dug in the mind.so it will take for you guys hundred years to behave like Equatorians.
Learn from Equatorian citizens.
Jeti
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Dr. Lam Akol can be a good lecturer in one of the universities in the South because he is doing nothing with his Ph.d. Knowledge wasted!
Padiet Deng Alony
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Hi guys here is medicine to stop tribalism in South Sudan
Federal gov’t and is now Functioning in Ethiopia.so that to stop, this Nuer that is Dinka bla bla bla. the regions/States in Southern Sudan shall be as follow
1- Dinka Region
2- Nuer Region
3- Shilluk Region
4- Equatoria Region etc
This system of Governance is now functioning in Ethiopia and Ethiopian citizens are enjoying it while living peacefully.
I hope this system will stop tribalism among Southern Sudanese if adapted.
Thonkiir
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
I support the point of South Sudan VP Dr Riek Machar Teny, who said early today he don’t wants unlimited term in presidency position. Yes, why his point is correct and it is because of what happened now in the middle east and Northern part of African countries. This is the results of being stay in power for so long…
Jur Tier
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
If anyone had come across my article posted on this website back in 2009, then you should have noticed that the concerned
I speculated on are emerging. As the article emphasized on the topic “What future is there for the Southerners and what next if that future nears” and based on my assessment of the recent visit to South Sudan in particular, I was so concern of the new nation’s future. Following my recent visit to the country a year before the publication of the article as I also mentioned in the article’s sub-title “BACK INTO THE COUNTRY AFTER TEN-YEARS” I pointed out a few head-shakes as I witnessed the live among the residents of Juba -the temporally capital of the South.
Firstly,but perhaps the most shocking experience, the live among the heroes who fought to the very end leading to the semi-autonomous region of South Sudan. With those same uniforms they had been wearing for more than a decade, they roam about in the streets of Juba with dry mouths and their dust-mildewed faces. For someone with a reasoning capacity, it was easy to tell that they did not expect that turn out in their lives since they took up arms against the Khartoum regime. With their bottom-holed pairs of old military uniforms(khaki), they petrolled the city centre to show the southerners that no matter how they are forgotten, they still care for the soil they dedicated their lives in the past Twenty-one years. On the other part of Juba, seven-seater four-wheel vehicles could be seen driven around. That life stylish show of where only a few Southerners seemed to be enjoying the short term freedom prompted questions among the majority of the Southerners of “what future there is for them”.
On the educational sector, I met a number of students from the Juba University. In the Southern parliament in Juba, interesting topics are discussed. Those included and not limited to most important topics discussed in any modern parliament anywhere in the world such as investment in the educational sector, health, roads and agriculture etc. But whatever is debated in any parliamentary sessions, passed unimplemented. A Juba university student is described
as “not competent enough” compared to any other university students in the world.
To make it worse, the infrastructural investment being talk about in the South is nowhere to be seen. The Juba bridge connecting Juba city with the outside towns and cities such as Bor-town in Jonglei plus the Juba-Yiei high way are mear “talk about” of which nobody is quite sure the construction would be in place. To be honest, the Southern government is not the poorest in the world but it is neither rich. But “where have all the money gone?” is the ready question that your ears wouldn’t missed among the Southerners.
What about the security, the first priority for any formulated government in the world! Well I will leave it for some of you to guess. As to my own point of view, Southerners have got, in their hands, what they had been longing for -the independence. Southern politicians are confident that they are the one to lead the new African nation.
But one problem is damaging and shifting the new nation into a direction never been thought to any single southerner. That is to say hopelessness , if I might not be mistaken, among Southern Sudanese is already replacing the joy shared from the recent referendum results with a nightmare. Those who were longing for changes after they had been in bad lives throughout the last 20 years wouldn’t see it. That casts another question of “what did we suffer for?”. Perhaps it was just to have our own nation, but what next after we got it not even a single southerner have an idea. If anyone does, then he is blessed!
Dau Yol
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Any talk or search for a national identity to replace a tribal identity is most welcome. Involving professors in a nation building is also a postive one , but, because the challenges are huge there is a need to involve any southerner who feel he/she can contribute some ideas. So, I would suggest for GOSS to stablish ideas bank, to which anyone can send his/her ideas. Later on, such ideas can be study and apply, when proved to be useful.
If Southern Sudan want really to be a sucess story, then they need to choose a parlimentarian system, over a presidential one. Because a presidential system works beter in a country where there are institutions in place, while a parlimentarian system helps in building institutions. Also, the justice system must be totally independent. And at last, we need to go back to qualiy education rather than a quantity one.
Moses Deng Malual
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Bravo Dr.Machar.
Prioritizing capacity development strategies and strengthening government institutions remains of key important in a new state such as South Sudan, also the challenges of the government having weak and inadequate capacity in the civil service particularly at the states and counties level need the intervention of Academia because their roles is extremely important. Dr.Machar keep on Hammering
Suggested prayer to Dinka Dominated SPLA, Dengtaath, Stephen kuach, Acathmac & others:
“Dear God, please help me when I am being accused or criticized, not to be defensive, but to find a point of agreement, and also to admit when I am in the wrong and do what I can to put things right. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
Dr.Moses Deng Malual.
junub
Machar urges South Sudanese academia to assist government in new state building
Moses Deng Malual,
You are just a confused thug and an alcoholic moron.
Idiot, God did not even listened to your prayer leave alone to answer it.
Seriously you are just a traitor Riek Machar’s asshole as to speak, if not then would you tell me what did God say to you in His answering to your prayer, and in what language?
Please go fuck yourselves in the bar with your liquer and traitor Riek Machar.