SPLM: Great Expectation, Great Disappointments!

By Luke Kuth Dak

March 25, 2009 — It’s quite clear that after almost four years in full control of everything and anything in South Sudan, that the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement and it’s executive branch, the government of South Sudan (GOSS) and the South Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) have not lived up to the great expectations of the citizens of the South. Instead, they offered them great disappointments one after another, in a manner that suggests some serious lack of leadership and co-ordination, at best.

Four years in power are too long a time for any government not accomplishes its agenda. It’s also quite a grace period to realize where things have gone wrong, and what could have been done to amend what needed to be amended. Today, President Barrack Obama, of the United States of America, would only dream to have had such an extended grace period, to implement his agenda. But, only a month in the Oval Office, he has already been grilled for what his critics called “ His failure to fulfill the campaign promises.” So what excuse do the three branches of government in South Sudan have, in not delivering what they have promised the Southern Sudanese with when they took over power, almost four long years ago?

That lamentable situation can’t and shouldn’t continue any longer, if this government ought to be taken seriously. It’s that time to veer away from empty promises and begins governing and addressing the dire security situation, corruption, poverty and more that are engulfing the region. No government should have the legitimacy of existence if it fails to meet the needs- not wants- of the citizens that it claims to have fought for. Certainly, the peoples’ patience and confidence in the government’s ability to lift them up, are thinning by the day, and rightfully so.

Meanwhile, under the watchful eyes of (SPLM) and with the help of some of Southern wickets, the so-called Islamic National Front, the party of embattled indicted President Omar al-Bashir, continues to play the divide, rule and conquer policies, all across the South. They are putting arms and weaponry in the hands of some tribes, not to mention the Ugandan rebels, the Lord Resistance Army (LRA), in order not only to destabilize the region, but also to show the entire world, by example, that, Southern Sudanese can’t possibly govern themselves! Unfortunately, all that is taking place while the (SPLM), (GOSS) and the (SSLA) are busy trying to defend and shield the war criminal Omar al-Bashir from the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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