SOUTH SUDANESE SHOULD SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS IN ORDER TO GET A PERMANENT PEACE By Kuek Deng Kuek

06:13 PM January, 21 2018

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It shouldn’t be the work of any other nation to solve our problems I also think that we shouldn’t be good at causing our own problems and we think that others will come and tackle them for us, I wanted to appreciate they steps taken by an Elders of Jieng Community to have persuaded General Paul Malong Awan, the former South Sudan Army Chief of General Staffs, who was relieved from his office earlier last year and decided immediately to go to his home town from that same night of his removal.
However, the Governor of Eastern Lakes State Honorable Bor Philip who I believe to have got a credit from many South Sudanese for having hosted the former Army Chief in order for the group of elders to talk to him till they persuaded him to come back to Juba and the government took his full security till eventually allowed by the government to go to East Africa.
Again when the media rumored about wiretapped voice recording, a group of a concern citizens of South Sudanese have willingly shown up to go to Kenya to the Former Army Chief to consult with him about the rumors circulated on social media.
South Sudanese President H.E General Salva Kiir Mayardit and his government have welcomed the decision made by the group of concern citizens headed by Dr. Francis Madiig Deng as the Head of Delegation, General Deng Wol as Deputy and other seven members of the delegation, this shows the commitment of the government to maintain peace and unity among South Sudanese because it is not always good at all to believe that our problems should be taken to regional block Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) or African Union (AU) as continent body for mediation we must sit down to solve our own problems so that we can get everlasting peace that we are all yarning for because ‘’the more we sit down to tackle our own problems the more we learn from them’’ and to compromise ourselves.
Example like national dialogue platform initiative that was created by government for south Sudanese to speak to each other was very much welcomed by South Sudanese either civic societies organizations or South Sudanese political parties in the Republic of south Sudan, it has also improved the serious lack of curiosity that has been there and refocused south Sudanese to look for other ways of coming together so it is vital to have a domestic way of solving the internal problems.
Basically peace mediation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia alone or without help from South Sudanese cannot bring a genuine peace, if we don’t really sit down to reconcile our political differences and reassure ourselves to work for a betterment of peaceful South Sudan because as the saying goes that ‘charity begins at home’ it means we should begin to seek peace at home not in Addis because how many peace agreements have been discussed from Addis Ababa since 1972 in the old Sudan up to date, and there is no permanent peace achieved, this is a clear indication that we must resort to internal peace initiative like that of national dialogue and that of concern south Sudanese who went to General Paul Malong Awan to talk to him, this is how we should approach our issue so that we are able to know exactly whether we have the capacity of solving our problems and to me I do say yes we have the capacity to do so, because we have something in common as South Sudanese and that is being citizens of one country who fought for 21 years to bring about stability and to release the exercise of the right of self-determination in an internationally supervised referendum which eventually led to our independence in July 2011.
I believe we can make a genuine peace in South Sudan not outside South Sudan because those peace mediations are not credible to bring a permanent peace to our nation, we should tremendously think twice to believe in our internal platform than that in Addis Ababa because after all, it is not everyone that go there for peace talk and so it is worthy to utilize our local peace platform where everyone can have a say in the peace process. South Sudanese must learn to solve their problems because they are the one who cause them I stressed.