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Elhag Paul President calls for National reconciliation The Bahr el Ghazal community today, 3rd Dec 2011 hosted an occasion in Nyakuron cultural centre- Juba, to celebrate the national Independence of the new country of South Sudan which took place on July 9th 2011. The occasion was opened for all citizens to attend and the guest of honor was understandably the President of the Republic Salva Kiir Mayardit. In attendance was also the Vice President Riek Machar among other local and foreign dignitaries. What captured my attention was that both the President and his Vice took the opportunity to use the platform to highlight the issues of border security and reconciliation. Talking in a mixture of Arabic and English, in spite of the fact that the Transitional Constitution ruled out Arabic as a co-official language, said "there is need to address the issue of reconciliation in our daily lives, we must forget the past and focus on the development of our country." It was Riek Machar who hammered the message home when he said" if we are going to be one nation, we must reconcile." These rare very serious statements coming from our most senior leaders. One would expect that statements like these are accompanied by a) identification of the sources of the problems and b) measures to tackle them. This did not happen and instead the matter is thrown back to the communities/public to deal with. If the communities who may be at war with each other are asked to solve their own problems then what is the role of the central government? Is GoSS at least providing some logistics and resources to enable the communities or local governments to deal with these matters? I am of course shocked to hear the President telling the public to forget about the past and focus on the present. How can people forget about the past when injustices were which were inflicted on victims have not been acknowledged never mind redressed by the government in 7 years? But now we know that at least when a group of states -however similar or dissimilar-organize an event and request attendance of the President he does attend. Early this year he declined a similar invitation to attend the Equatoria Conference 2011. Does he realize that his actions or in actions directly contribute to national harmony or disharmony? Last but not least, the issue of insecurity in Juba must be addressed by the whole government and not just left to the minister of Interior who seems to be the only minister working, to battle with. The death of 6 people daily or 180 monthly in peace time is simply unacceptable. If this was the rate of killings in Juba during the long 21 years of war, there would have been no single soul left in Juba by 2005. A government that has plenty of resources at its disposal cannot ignore the death of ordinary citizens. It doesn't matter whether the killers are local or foreigners. What matters is that a government that is worth the name must ensure that it adequately protects the lives of its citizens. The life of every individual southerner is precious and the government if it is a government of the people must treat it so. Otherwise one can conclude that this government has come to manufacture insecurity and disharmony in South Sudan. Joana Adams, RSS Solution is empower Anti-Corruption commission Mr. Isaiah Abraham, your article is containing all the frustrations that each one of us is feeling regarding how events are unfolding in this commission. The actual problem with this commission is not the individuals who are managing it but rather the lack of instruments that can help them in carrying out their duties perfectly. It seems they are only given mandate to record or list all the corruption charges without any right to sue the culprits in the court of law. So the solution is not by changing the head of the commission but rather to empower the commission with both political backing and judicial mandate to punish the culprits and above all to be an independent body. But our major problem is with our president, this guy makes us more frustrated daily, it seems the policy of changing any one who is becoming more aware of people's voices and doing his/her best to rectify the system and put the nation on a right truck has become more disturbing to poor masses. This guy, in my personal view, in one way or another has become one of the contributors to our daily crisis's (corruption, insecurity, poverty, etc,) due to his poor management decisions and too much association to his kitchen boys. It's really a shame for us to be notified by our friends and other international bodies regarding the names of people who stole millions of dollars from our infant state, while we have a commission that could have carried out this work without this shameful image imposed on us by the weak leadership of Kiir and his kitchen boy. The only remedy to be offered to Kiir is an exit out and not return in 2014 election and we deeply regretted for electing him in 2010 election. Pitya lo Tongun, RSS Is it a crime to be patriotic? Dear editor, allow me respond to the article written by Mr. Deng Riek Khoryoam who accused Mr. Luk Kut Dak of seeking favors from President Kiir by suggesting to Pres. Kiir Mayardit to review the amnesty accorded to all rebel leaders and their groups. In my view, Mr. Deng Riek should apologize to Mr. Luk Dak for all the undeserved attacks on. Kuth Dak who is a true patriot and loves his country and the president. Mr. Luk Dak is a regular blogger who has consistently demonstrated his patriotism for a very long time and he should not be condemned for exercising that right. The allegation that he is after some favors from President Kiir is baseless and malicious which is intended to tarnish Dak's love for his country. Instead, it is Riek Khoryoam who is seeking favors from both the rebels and Pres. Kiir. Mr. Luk is a veteran South Sudanese who remains patriotic despite the fact that he is still living as a refugee in the USA in spite of RSS's independence. D. Deng, RSS Challenging corrupt people I want to ensure everybody that the government of south Sudan needs to reform because what is taking place now is beyond their control. So it needs our participation as the citizens to challenge this government with all means because without it we are going nowhere. So, let us fight for our rights in a peaceful way by challenging the corrupt people in our government and the opposition should not keep because there are our forward head. Monday Jacob Ibrahim, RSS Uncaught thieves are not thieves! Thank you, Isaiah Abraham, for your comments about corruption but forget about the case of Dr. Pauline Riak. Let our talk be based on senior politicians whose names have been released by USA for looting funds. My questions are: will all of southerners forgive them and let quit with that money? or can we make strikes and International money monitoring agency will hear our voices? South Sudan has no strong opposition leaders to criticize them or there are birds of the same flock. Positive criticism leads to good work! Ayuel, RSS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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