"We will let our intellectuals know that being educated is not about sitting idly at tea shops or being appointed to a certain political position, but it is about putting the skills one learns at school to practice. We will let them know that the value of education is the use of what is learned at school for the development of the society."
The country will be
democratized where anyone will respect the law and no one will be above the
law. The power will be decentralized in order to avoid the accumulation of
power in the hands of few. Free, fair and periodic elections will be conducted
to avoid the clinging to power and ensure that there is a peaceful transfer of
power. We will make sure that the army does not involve in state affairs. The
army will only involve in external defense and every citizen will know his/her
right without being scared by military personnel as it is happening today.
Democratic debates will be summoned in the country and it is through those
debates where national issues will be discussed. Everyone will have the right
of expression. The parliament will be democratized where government officials
will question who they wish to, including the president. The constitution will
be a democratic constitution which will not be in the favor of the few as it is
today, it will be drafted in such a way that it protects every citizen in the
country.
The people of South Sudan
will know both their human and democratic rights. They will know their human
rights like the right to live, liberty and security. They will also know their
democratic rights such as right of freedom of expression, right to elect and to
be elected, right to prosperity and religious right. By knowing this, they will
be able to enjoy both their human and democratic rights. They will also know
their responsibilities to fulfill.
We will surprise and
disappoint our corrupt politicians with an idea that every politician including
the National MPs, state MP and National and state ministers is going to stay at
his/her home so that the huge budget that is wasted in hotels can be allocated
to development. We will tell our corrupt politicians to use their salaries if
they prefer staying in hotels than staying at their homes.
We will not allow the
ministers to only stay at offices without visiting the sectors to which they
lead. We will make sure that the minister of finance abolishes corruption by
implementing strict rules in the finance sector and checks every economic
sector throughout the country to be aware that appropriate investment
modalities are implemented. We will make sure that the minister of agriculture
transforms the agricultural sector by incurring the modern farming system in
the country in order to escalate the food production and to do so, the minister
will be sure that the bee farming, sericulture and horticulture sectors are
producing with surplus throughout the countries and hence, dependency on
foreign aids will be abandoned.
We will make sure that
the Minister of health transforms the health sector by employing competent
health workers and establishing strong healthcare throughout the country. We
will make sure that the minister of education declares free education starting
from kindergarten to university, we will be sure that quality education is
obtained in the country by employing competent teachers and giving them good
salaries, we will make sure that the minister of education accommodate the
teachers in schools and universities so that they will be satisfied and pursue
their career, we will make sure that fair university entrance examination
system is established and students get free university through their scores in
the entrance examination, we will make sure that public universities are
established throughout the country, at least five public universities per state
where students can be accommodated freely whereby the students will get free
food, water and bed in the campus throughout their studies. We will make sure
that every ministry is promoting the development in the country.
We will make sure that
every national ministry is cooperating with all the respective state ministries
to ensure that things are going well from top to bottom. We will make sure that
the states governors are doing the same to their ministers and state
commissioners. We will push national MPs, national ministers to work for
development and make sure that no time or money is wasted in hotels. We will be
sure that the state governors do the same thing to states MPs, state ministers
and county commissioners. We will make sure as well that the county
commissioners apply the same rule to the county directors and payams
administrators and the administrative hierarchy can go on and on. By doing so,
corruption will be abolished in the country and people will work hard for the
development of the country. We will make sure that all the government workers
are regularly paid without any salary delay so that they can work assiduously
in all the sectors.
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We will make sure that
youth are employed prior to their graduation and one will be employed only in
the sector of the field to which he/she studied. We will make sure that
agriculture graduates are not employed in the finance sector. We will also make
sure that health graduates are not employed in the agricultural sector. We will
make sure that what will take one to a certain job is his/her skill whereby
uncle or aunt will not be the guarantee for one to be employed. By doing so the
right skills at the right place will escalate the development of the country.
Employing people with the right skills at the wrong place and vice versa is a
prominent contradictory and impediment to the development.
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We will let our
intellectuals know that being educated is not about sitting idly at tea shops
or being appointed to a certain political position, but it is about putting the
skills one learns at school to practice. We will let them know that the value
of education is the use of what is learned at school for the development of the
society. By considering and understanding so, they will put into practice what
they learn at school for the development of the country. They will be involved
in farming activities by using their knowledge to increase food production.
They will involve in different types of business extensively which will be
initiated by the government, the government will lend money to those who are
interested in doing business.
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Our ladies will have
confidence in themselves, they will contribute to the development of the
country and have pride in themselves. We will make sure that skin bleaching
chemicals are banned from entering the country so that our ladies will no
longer be the victims of skin bleaching. Our ladies will not be forced to
abandon skin bleaching, but they will be involved in different training
programs which will promote their confidence in their black skins. They will be
taught about the disadvantages of skin bleaching and how beautiful they are
with their black skins. The program will be funded financially to encourage the
ladies to abandon skin bleaching which only disables them because a lady with
bleached skin can no longer have healthy skin. A bleached skin cannot heal when
injured and it is very difficult for the person with bleached skin to work
normally in blue collar work. By teaching so, our ladies will be proud of their
black skin and such obnoxious skin bleaching will be let go.
Girls will have an equal
chance for education with boys. They will have access to education and be given
an equal chance for employment after graduation. They will be the proud members
of our country and gender will not be the criterion to be accepted or rejected
in any position. Our women throughout the country will not only gossip as it is
today but they will work diligently in agricultural, military, education,
business and health sectors as equal as men. Our women will be proud and
realize their worth when it comes to developing the country, they will realize
that house is not only what they deserve.
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Development goals will be
planned and implemented. We will extensively invest in the agriculture sector
in order to defeat hunger and dependency for food on the foreign aids. With the
fertile land we have in the country, foods of different varieties can be
produced. Edible trees, grains, vegetables and leguminous plants will be
cultivated in large quantities throughout the country which will help in
stabilizing the economy because with such a production of food in large
quantities, the price of the foods will be very cheap and everyone including
those with low income will survive.
We will make sure that
every part of the country has access to electricity, and this will be possible
by building big dams that will generate enough electric power. We will make
sure that hospitals are built throughout the country. Good healthcare will be
obtained everywhere in the country; from cities to villages and to do so, good
hospitals will be built; competent health workers will be recruited and
employed with good salaries in those hospitals.
We will make sure that
everyone in the country has access to clean drinking water. The ministry of
water resources and irrigation will endow everyone in the country with clean
water by wisely using the abundant water resource in the country. Irrigation
will be used to boost the agricultural sector inducing the availability of food
with surplus in the country. The water resource in the country will be managed
and used wisely to support the livelihood of the citizens.
Using the budget that is
currently wasted on hotel accommodations, roads will be built across the
country connecting town to town and state to state so that it will be easy to
travel and transport goods from one area of the country to another. Railways
will be constructed linking countries to neighboring countries so that it will
be easy to import and export goods. Roads that can connect city to city, city to
village and village to village will be constructed and hence, modern mean of
transport will be viable not only in dry season as it is now but throughout the
year.
Education will be free in
the country starting from kindergarten to university so that all the children
in the country will have access to education and there will be no
inaccessibility to education based on the economic status of the parents. More public universities will be established
in the country and students who pass the secondary school national examination
will be accommodated freely in those universities in the same year they sit for
the exam. The students will get free food, dormitory and teaching in those
public universities. The placement to those public universities will be done by
the national ministry of higher education and students according to their
scores will be allocated to different fields of study. The students will be
placed randomly to every university in all the states in the country and
getting the university in your own state will be by chance. Such a random
placement will help students to have knowledge about the diversity in the
country. It will also help them to learn how to live with people who are not
only from his/her tribe because a student from Equatoria region may be randomly
placed to the university to Upper Nile region or Bhar el Ghazal region and vice
versa.
The fishery sector will
be modernized; fish will be managed and used wisely and more fish companies
will be established in the country which will create job opportunities for
South Sudanese. With the fishery potential the country has, the fish will be
exported to other countries. The fish will contribute to diet and economy. The
wildlife sector will be modernized and wildlife management will be maintained
to attract tourists in different parts of the world which will generate income.
The livestock sector will be considered as of importance as well for the
economy of the country. All these will be made possible by the ministry of the
respective sector because the ministers will not only stay in hotels wasting
time and money, rather, they will implement plans that will supplement
development in the country. The country will prosper at a jet-like speed.
A large number of
companies will be established in the country. Food production companies,
textile companies, brewing companies, fish processing companies and so on and
so forth will be established in the country. Such companies will employ
thousands of South Sudanese which will lead to the reduction of unemployment in
the country.
Oil will not be the only
source of income. The agriculture sector, fishery sector, livestock sector,
mining sector and business sector will all escalate the gross domestic product
of the country. Dollar crisis that has today pulverized our economy will no
longer be the threat because there will be no dependency on foreign products
for food and other products that would be produced in the country. With the
availability of those products in the country, the local currency will have
value over dollar and this will give a tremendous credit to our local currency
and the exchange will not be unfair as it is now.
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The usage of alcohol will
not be as catastrophic as it is today. Our people will not use alcohol
frequently and irresponsibly as it is today because they will be busy with
work, if there is a need to drink alcohol, it will be only at the nighttime
after returning from work. Drinking alcohol at night after work is not violent
nor is it disadvantageous because the person drinks and sleeps which is
contradictory to daytime drinking where the person avoids going for work and
causes violence. We will make sure that people are advised not to drink alcohol
during the daytime by their employees. The employees will set rules against
alcohol during the daytime and almost everyone in the country will be aware
that drinking alcohol during the day time is the enemy of progress. The people
will be aware that drinking alcohol during the daytime is against the peaceful
coexistence and the development, hence, the country will have a lot of
responsible people like other countries. Development will be the order of the
day
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Tribalism which is
inflicted among South Sudanese will be weeded out of the country because
without the absent of tribalism there can be no progress. Tribalism is the
absence of equality; it occurs when people feel segregated based on their
tribes. Tribalism makes people very weak because it empowers some tribe and
marginalizes others. Tribalism is the rationale for the destruction of so many
African countries because a tribalism engulfed society cannot see beyond tribe.
Such a society does not choose the good leader; each tribe only tries its best
to make sure one of their own becomes the leader instead of who has ideas that
can take the country forward. Such a tribal ideology has favored corrupt
leaders who don’t have leadership skills because tribal support is what gives
them power to deteriorate countries.
South Sudanese are all
engulfed by tribalism which leads them to have short sight restricted to their
tribes. Such tribalism was incurred by tribal segregation and inequality
imposed by the corrupt leaders. The tribal segregation empowered some tribes
and marginalized others and hence, South Sudanese feel so different. The
empowered tribes feel so superior while the marginalized tribes feel so
inferior. This catastrophe can retard the development in the country because it
makes people very weak. The members of the empowered tribes will not believe in
their skill, but they will believe that tribalism will put them everywhere they
want. The members of the marginalized tribes on the other hand will be hopeless
and will not believe in their skills as well because they will think that no
matter how best they are they will be ignored based on their tribes. As a
result, the country can collapse because none of the two groups will work hard
for the country.
Tribalism will be
abolished among South Sudanese by promoting equality in every sector. When
tribal segregation is abolished, people will feel equal and will believe only
in their skills. When people are equal in every sector, they will believe only
in hard working for them to be accepted and promoted in certain institutions
and the country can be developed in a jet like speed.
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We the patriotic citizens
of South Sudan will ameliorate the country by working hard in every sector.
South Sudan will be very prosperous. GDP will be high; literacy rate will be
high and life expectancy will be very high. This is the ambition of every
patriotic citizen of South Sudan. I am very hopeful that one day we will see
such an ambition come true and hence, we will all do our best in any sector we
work.
*Yien Wil Mayuak Nyoch is a Pan Africanist and African cultures activist who can be reached via his email at yientharngoany@gmail.com or gatwiel2017@yahoo.com.