Is GOSS decision-making hierarchy, murky, proactive or provocative?
Calgary, AB, CA - Does SPLM have a plan; a national strategic, political and development plan? Has it been made public? I have no idea and I would want to know. Ralph Waldo once said that 'few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line." Yes, the SPLM and the GOSS seem to be just at the last dot.
It would be a waste of time to argue whether a decision by the SPLM and the GOSS to pospone the recent census kick-off until the end of the month was right or wrong. We can all take sides depending on what appeals to us.
I, for one, and to go against my argument: the decision wasn't bad. But that's not my concern for now. Mr. Kiir and Mr. Beshir have ironed things out, supposedly.
We all know what Northern Sudanese ruling cliques always want in any structured, propagandised blackmailing machination.
When did religion become so useless and insignificant that NCP can ignore it? Has Beshir, all of a sudden, forgotten his mandate to the Sudanese fundamentalists,Pan-Arab and the Islamic world of Osamas, Muqtadas, Mullahs...? They have something under their sleeves. We can't dwell on that. I wanted to ignore the whole thing because of its commensensicality. But no!
Reacting to GOSS decision to postpone census in the South, Kamal Obeid of NCP wondered “who is in the center of the decision making process within the SPLM”. He based his charge on what GOSS information minister, Changson Chang, said concerning exclusion of ethnicity and religion in the census, the incompleteness of border issue and repatriation of refugees.
Mr. Obeid continued with his mockery and says that "not knowing the center of decision making in SPLM as partner in running the country hurts the political process and complicate any prospective resolutions." True, but stop being so self-righteous! It makes me sick.
I would agree with Obeid on this even if I hate what he had to say. When a minister speaks to the press as if the position he holds has been well thought out by the ruling heads in the South, only for the president to come up with some obscure solution to the 'crisis', you know the decision making body has a problem.
Does the ruling mind in the South control what is said? If it is easy for the president of the South to repeal what has been collectively agreed, then the whole governance affair is pathetically wanting. Such a situation makes GOSS ministers look like caricatures of the reality played out. It makes them naked with folly and acted genuineness.
The GOSS should have a solid decision-making apparatus that can't be swayed by circustantial threats. It is the dignity that the South fought to enforce in Sudan, but this same dignity is undermined if a minister proudly comes out to the public and presents something that impresses them and uplift their self-esteem, only for the big man to come out and say; 'hey, I'm the boss, here's what I think and will do.'
The pace with which things change puts a strain on our political maturity and survival. Please, let's think things out before we rush to the press and embarrass ourselves.
Kuir Garang is the New Sudan Vision's Editorial and Opinion editor. He can be reached at kuirthiy@yahoo.com.
