Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
August 8, 2011 (JUBA) – The speaker of the National Legislative Assembly in South Sudan, James Wani Igga, called on the government to address issues of insecurity in the new nation.
Igga made the remarks on Monday while delivering a speech to members of the parliament during a joint sitting of the two houses of the national assembly and the council of states.
He said insecurity remains a big challenge for the new republic and called on the security organs to tackle the matter with the aim to maintain peace and security.
The speaker of the house lauded the president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, for the amnesty he offered to the rebel groups, saying the president’s move has resulted to the coming back to the system of former rebel leader, Peter Gatdet Yak and David Yauyau.
Igga also called on the government to continue with the disarmament of the civil populations until all the weapons are collected from their hands.
“We must disarm, disarm and disarm,” he repeated.
He also said there was a need by the security forces to contain the activities of armed gangs who wear uniforms and harass the civil populations at night in the capital, Juba. He claimed that some police were involved in these illegal activities.
He also called on the government to end tribalism and corruption, urging the officials to repatriate their money from abroad.
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kulea
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Wow thank Igga
you almost knock the main points that let our country undeveloping keep your speeches stand by until others learns through it if they understanding the meaning of Nation, like you said by the way they need some more workshops to let them learn better like you,
because some of them will misjudging your points of views they will took it as personal issue especial Dinka which always like cheating people with so many coners they thinking rest are blind
Lorolokin
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Brother you are right these creatures if they didn’t come to their sense then RoSS is nothing otherwise speaker Igga is right when he argue the president to address TRIBALISM and CORRUPTION, Kiir should thinks wise before is too late for him.
Kinkak.
Dhalaluaak
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Absolutely well said Mr.speaker.We need no guns in civilian hands and gangs like groups/rebels.We cannot achieve peace,harmony,love,equality,prosperity and justice,which are the fruits of our long time waited freedom,if we still practices tribalism,corruption and nepotism,which are also the signs of bad fruits as to why we fought for,for long in order for us to be free and enjoy the fruits of all types as God had bless us with for needs and fulfillment of His alleged gift and a prosperous blessing.
we have seen that God’s time of pruning has gone while His blessings and extended hands are waiting for us in the corner.Could we please value life[lives] at this time such that we can enjoy our God given gifts like every body else around the world.
We are very rich with materials but with order.Each and everyone of us can/could contribute his/her energy,ideals and genuine systems towards our nation’s building.
please let’s listen to our voices of peace and unity.Let’s get rid of insecurity,create jobs and help introduce location people to agriculture.help them with tools and seeds.This will keep them busy and at the same be self reliance.
Lastly,the security patrolling units must be active and tight.those found while harassing our citizens be put to jail and suck from their duties if they are from the government’s units.Law and order must be maintain very high without any sympathy towards any wrong doer found guilty in doing such a havoc treaties.
let’s listen to our voices
Let’s respect our system
let’s encourage each other to build this Nation
Let’s care for our citizens/people
Let’s unity and remain united as we will stick together.
victory for us all
Republic of south Sudan,the only land we will at times defend.
thanks.
Space
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Good message RT.Hon. Igga but that message is far away from reality. In my own perspective, and as far as insecurity is concern, there are number of vairables which need cirtical analysis. One variable is the presence of huge unskilled foreigners which are every where in the South Sudan; another variable is indiscipline army which was recruited based on excitements; and the last variable might be tribal fundamentalist who want to advance thier tribal interest by oppressing and intimidating citizens.
Unskilled foreigners
The foreign unproductive workforce in the Country are the major cause of insecurity. The lack of clear policy on the control of immigration and greed for money has inflated the Country with people who are not qualified and need quick money. majority of these foreigners in the Region have different motives: One is to make quick money before South Sudan could stregthen the institutions by exploiting the gaps of iggnorance, lack of clear policies and less education to discover what it is.
Our entries visas are availabale to every criminal who has money. I doubt that our foregn missions have ever rejected anybody who may be deemed a threat to the Country but has money. Because these foregn officials also need money and what they do is to maiximise the visa sales to satisfy their greed. They never mind of whatever the potential danger might be.
The immigration officers at the borders as well also need money and they will allow people to pay and enter without visas so as to get money to cater for their own greed. These behaviours might have come because of perception of too much corruption in Juba where they think collected huge revenues end up in individuals pockets in Juba. So if they think they are working to enrich individuals but not they nation, then they shall struggle to get thier share and, the leaders in Juba will have to compromise because they take the money whose thier accountability will never be availed to anybody. Again, they fear that the bordrs officials have the records that can be use as evidents to pinned them.
Not only visas but also food commodities which are expired are been consume at large scale in Juba are source of insecurity. The Gentic modified Foods which are not fit for consumption have invaded our markets and the army. I am afraid that more than 90% of Arm Forces Foods are genetic Modified Foods which may not be fit for Consumption. It costs suppliers, who want to make lot of money from the contract, less money.
And because these foreigners are not educated and come from Countries where cultures of stealing, robbing and cheating are part of their cultures’ attributes, they put on SPLA fatigue and move with guns and other weapons to rob, steal and loot citiznes at night. Within six years down the roads, foreigners are more than two million in a country with less than 20million people and it will double now as everybody is rushing there to exploit our innocence. So the insecurity the RT.Hon is talking about is vague. He need to detail it.
There is an aspect of indiscipline arm forces who are not nationalist and were not properly indoctrinated to understand the nature of thier works and work ethics. They were recurited base on excitements of having a nation and we need these institutions now without having put clear procedures in place. they have families and they earns just peanuts which cannot even cater for just drinking water in a month let alone family suport. So what do you think will prevent them form doing that? they will do anything to cater for unmet needs. The Parliament calls for insecurity tackiling still vague.
And finally, some of the institutions have recurited tribal fundamentalists who will advance thier intresets. These fundamentalist go to social places and latter begin arresting citizens because of mere converstaions. These are personal security details but not for the nation. You cannot arrest people because they talk against president Kiir or agianst certain individuals. These fundamentalists are more dangerous as they have less education or no education at all. I supposed they borrow such behaviours from Uganda and Kenya where a leader just brought all his clans into security apparartus to advance their intrests. It is alleged that they want people without visions to serve in the Govt. But if you have the vision, they say he has the vision and he wants to overthrow the Govt. telling President that Mr. X has the vision and he may put you down anytime. What is wrong with the vision? No one will remain there forever and at some points, he will have to go. So it is for the intreset of our nation to protect people with visions and let them serve South Sudanese people. Let’s us not establish a damn institutions of yes, yes, yes. So RT. Hon, pliz elaborate more on what you need to be done so that they get it right. But mere saying of tackling insecurity does not send us any message.
Sorry guys for using large space.
Dhalaluaak
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Kulea,
please read my first comments.don’t just run your guts without any proper judgment.what you have just said is already answered by a dinka proverb,which states”assumption miss-assumed”.Mr.speaker is talking about putting away tribalism but you just coined tribalism right by singling out Dinka.Is that not tribalism?
Alier42
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Insecurity in the Ross is a result of corruption and it will remain a big challenge to your goverment, unless as a party ,you fight it causes,we will keep on pointing our figures on splm.your reputation as Splm is in the hands of public, who normally mandated parties to the power ,otherwise you will face a music in 2015 general election.to remind you in that parliament of yours Igga .politics is not only about power,but first and foremost about people,their concerns and livelihoods,you do what ever you do as corrupt individuals in that goverment, but it,s God who knows more about people .
Yic-Edu
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Mr.Igga, you are right no security at all? Gier his IGP are doing nothing please try to recruits new people who can do the works. if you fail to appoint new guys instead of them is you who will die because you are sleeping in expensive houses and etc
Akibon
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Kulea,
Wani Igga was just plagiarising the address speech that president Kiir had during the independent day.
All those words he reiterated were kiir’s words and this should have been clear to you if you had watched SSTV on the independent day.
It is pointless to just utter all those trashes on an innocent tribe who are nothing but part and parcel of the cake as per tribes.
Gabriel KK
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Hey Guys,
Our leaders are confusing the general public about the issue of corruption in the Republic. Now who are the most corrupt citizens? The Government officials or the entire public? We are all watching and we all know the corrupt leaders who are trying to covered themselves from this scenario of bad leadership and looting of public development funds by opening up accounts in foreign countries. Mr. Igga must warn the those Mps not the general citizens who are struggling day and night for their daily breads. This is a time for change and our Leadres must know that we are already in a Democartic nation and all of them will lost chances of re-election in that next election. please watch out Mps!!!
Wanibuluk Ciciliba
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Mr. Space above there, you have a sense of reality; but I also say the speaker is right to loud this point though enclosed.
My direct respond here is that ARMY is not supposed to be kept in the town like for the case WBG state’S KIRINTI army barracks where the army just roam like floaks without a shephard and more so, is the habit of a soldier drinking alcohol when on duty and in combat uniform is very unprofessional and in this same regard is the increased theft and robery at night.
For those who are still behind the curtains of triblaism, you simply need a spiritual deliverance from that rooted and inhibited choronological ideology which will not only keep you behind the curtains but also destroy your internal will for the entir Nation.
Let’s all give our supprot to the gvn’t by correcting them where we think is possible because these men in the offices are all war veterans and have less knowledge of the today’s world style of governance.
Critiques of them will confuse them but correction will keep them up right some how.
Those who chery themself as the liberators are simply telling other communities to arrise against them to liberate themselves from them which is a very poor method of thinking, what we need righ now is to focuss where and how we all want our new country to look like and be of what image.
Corruption as we can talk of it but will not reach any end of it unless the top senior officials starts being accoutabel it can never be wipped out.
Look at Kigali, Rwanda today, it is florcent due to the President Paul Kagame’s principal of zero tolerance of corruption i.e kicking out those who embezzels public funds but it is a different case with us where there are no accounabilities.
Any robery and theft must be thoroughly investigated and if found that a local person conived with a foreigner, he / she must be executed for bebtrial of his/her own soveraign State and own people.
In Kampala and Nairobi thieves were burnt in tires of cars and drastically reduced theft and robery so the same might be a good LCM here.
Kangulok
Deng Tut
Igga calls on government to improve security in South Sudan
Dear readers pardon me for my words; I’m not use to criticize any individual but I have to tell you the reality that I have observed from H. Excellency Wani in different occasion during our struggle, the man does not have any principles to defense his own vision nor defending his tribes again the abusive of the tribalism. Exactly what he has been declared today is what our President had said during his speech on the Independent day; Mr. Wani can’t produce a valuable idea for the development of South nor any vision which may help us for the future of the new born Nation.
what surprise me in his politics, why he called the Government to address the issue of insecurity in the Country while himself he is in the Government and he is empower by the Government to be the Speaker of that House and in addition to that; his role in parliament is to amend the bill and existing laws in South Sudan which could prevent insecurity and promote the better democracy in the whole Country.
Let him just represent only the Equatorian in our State while at the same time they Equatorian does not like him to be in this position because of his weakness that he couldn’t tell the true to the media about what is going on in Parliament concerning injustice etc………….?
Nyadawech W.P