Message from Gen. Majak D Agoot: Majak dAgoot > Dear Mayik,(responding to a certain discussant at SPLM Diaspora forum) > A lot of good points there but whose responsibility, first and foremost? Citizens agree on a Common Wealth and submit to what it is called The Government for a sheer fact that there is a collective good to be gained from such agglomeration. Believe you me, corporate bodies do not just agree on a merger if there are no expected gains from the size and scale (i.e., economies of scale). If the Government becomes incompetent and incapable of carrying out the core state functions - including its responsibility to protect (R2P) and observance of the rule of law, then people revoke the social contract that put them to power in the first place. Alternatively, the Commonwealth may risk ending up in Thomas Hobbes state of nature of War of All Against All - an unfortunate path to anarchy which we must avoid at all costs. > Leaving the area altogether and concentrate in fortresses in Bor and Panyagoor is incomprehensible a measure. Otherwise, the cheapest thing for all of us including our government is the respect of the rule of law and sanctity of human life. Savage ways of living off the barrel of the gun or perpetuating fear through coercion will make our life chaotic, short and brutish. > So, if we have a semblance of government in place at least, it should stand up to its responsibility including building roads and infrastructure which must be evenly rolled out country-wide than being decided arbirarily on the basis of areas defined as power bastions, regions of origin of powers that be, or ethnic contours. Even if the people of The Greater Upper Nile States give up all their cattle they have, they will not fund building the road from Juba to Renk. It is only possible that things might change to the better if the Government allocates to those areas a sizeable slice from the Oil Revenues Pie as an affirmative action. The few schools and clinics that you see dotting that barren landscape in Bor area - including The Malek Academy - came from modest efforts of its people; particularly its Diaspora Community. Thence, in Jonglei, at least, the co-called Peace Dividend or Independence Dividend is yet to arrive, brother. > Again, whilst you have made brilliant arguments on Security-Development Nexus, the responsibility rests squarely with the government that receives oil revenues from resources being extracted from the periphery and which has the core function of R2P. > > Kind regards > > Majak DAgoot > > From: James Mayik > To: splm-forum@googlegroups > Sent: Friday, 25 October 2013, 1:46 > Subject: Re: [SPLM FORUM] Re: Dream of a Twi Child > On Thu, 24/10/13, Majak dAgoot wrote: > > Subject: [SPLM FORUM] Re: Dream of a Twi Child > Date: Thursday, 24 October, 2013, 8:34 > > Dear > Colleagues, > > Accept my sincere thanks and gratitude to you all for outpour of > sympathy and solidarity with the victims of this unprovoked > action. > > As my nephew Kuir e Garang has > just expressed it, these horrendous crimes against humanity > had lived with this community under the old rump Jalaba > State. You might recall the February 1967 Massacre of Chiefs > when the communitys entire traditional leadership > was massacred in Paliau. The puzzle is why all these > heinous crimes have to continue in a country that we call > our own and for which we have all sacrificed so dearly to > realize its birth? Is this the State that > we aspired to, to quote Dr. Peter Adwok Nyaba? > Why did it take about a week without a statement from the > Government; and which reluctantly made one (actually > yesterday) after the pressure mounted on it? Could it have > been the UNMISS, USG, UK, or EU to condemn the incident > first than our own Government? Next door in Kenya, > could our Government even not borrow a leaf from the fresh > lesson of political > morality when terrorists struck at the Westgate Mall > just a month ago? > > In any case, better late than > never: however too little too late; yet, we are > grateful! > > Kind regards > > Majak > DAgoot
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 00:51:31 +0000
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