Mr. Riek Machar and his allies should just-man-the-damn-up and swallow the hard truth. Ngungdeng Buong magician you fools have been playing over South Sudan and the South Sudanese people in foreign capitals, hotels and bars isn’t going to fly again over our country and over our people. Mr. Salva Kiir and his bunch of fools let you (Mr. Riek Machar) play balls with our country and over people.>>>>

That was clear from the start that jienges don’t want peace. They reject any state system that is orderly and transparent cuz they are simply chaotic, anarchistic and love to wallow in filth and dirt. They renege from agreements and don’t keep word: liars, backstabbers and greedy. Now they want 6 governors yet can’t do anything. Their ones like the Health Minister, just a housecleaner.

Looking at the overall political landscape and how the main armed opposition, the Sudan People Liberation Movement in Opposition(SPLM-IO), has handled negotiations and foreign relations from the onset in December 2013 or from the days of establishment of the SPLM/A-IO in April 2014, it won’t be surprising if the SPLM-IO compromises one or two states in what is now brewing to be another deadlock. T

Continue, The SPLM-IO has consciously or accidentally compromised on many lucrative ideals before; however, for the sake of clarity I will not descend into the literature in this article but I will dwell on the case at the bar – the new “deadlock” on the responsibility sharing formula and establishment of the local governments.

First thing first, who would have thought that the South Sudanese elite politicians could not solve a simple arithmetic call “division” to an extent that they would refer themselves to R-JMEC for further arbitration for a formula that was already determined during the previous negotiations.

agreement that clearly spells how the states and local governments should be divided among the parties. The simplest arithmetic the parties should adhere to are the responsibility sharing ratios described below:

Based on the peace document(above) and as explained by Dr. Lam Akol and others, whom we had benefit to read their analyses, 55% of 10 states, 27% of 10 states, 10% of 10 states and 8% of 10 states are 5.5, 2.7, 1.0 and 0.8 respectively, and given that the parties are only interested in natural numbers, it is therefore necessary to round these numbers off to the nearest natural number.

Without diving into full arithmetic on rounding off numbers, 2.7 and 0.8 qualify for Case B and 1.0 and 5.5 qualify for Case C rules which state:CASE B: In rounding off numbers, the last figure kept should be increased by 1 if the first figure dropped is greater than 5.CASE C: In rounding off numbers, if the first figure dropped is 5, and all the figures following the five are zero or if there are

no figures after the 5, then the last figure kept should be unchanged
Therefore, according to Case B rule, the last digit kept from 2.7 and 0.8 should be increased by 1 and become 3 and 1, respectively. This means, whereas the SPLM-IO should be entitled to 3 states, OPPs would be entitled to 1 state. Similarly, and based on Case C, the last digit kept from 5.5 and 1.0 should remain unchanged as 5

and 1, and therefore the SPLM-IG should be entitled to 5 states and SSOA would be entitled to 1 state. This should be non-negotiable except in our South Sudan where we are defying established world orders!To reiterate, based on the revitalized peace agreement and operational rules of arithmetic, the SPLM-IG is entitled to 5 states and the oppositions are entitled to the other 5 states in the ratio

of 3:1:1 for SPLM/A-IO, SSOA and OPP, respectively. All those mumbo-jumbo arguments from Hon. Michael Makuei and Hon. Martin Elia are the very reasons they were sanctioned for by the international community and they should be trashed. Besides, the same formula was used recently to create the cabinet and it worked perfectly fine, why now?

Ram Mi Ran,

5.5 is not 5 but 6. So, gov’t is not arithmetically wild to want 6 governors out of 10. What’s needed here is to continue with spirit of genuine compromises, not spin and reckless celibrations.

IOs should be serious, if they can’t reach any compromise with IG then why rejecting appointment of caretakers?