It's time for South Sudan to stop boarding so-called ‘commercial planes'
May 6, 2008 (Honeoye Falls, New York, USA ) - Dr. Garang’s mysterious death seemed to be the South Sudanese’ fate. I think our government needs to be realistic and starts to apply a strict scrutiny standard in boarding the so-called ‘ancient’ or ‘brand new’ planes to stop mysterious deaths from repeating itself as it did. Indeed, the thousands of thousands of people we have lost in the North-South strife died for our cause of freedom and pursuit of happiness. I suppose we are all aware of that.
Simple flying objects, such as planes should not be the defining fate in determining and taking the lives of our surviving heroes or heroins, in vain as it did. We need to find a formidable solution for these incalculating deaths.
If there are culprits out there who are masterminding these puzzling deaths, then why not ignite or start the investigation to bring them into justices? Life is precious and we should not lose it as simple as that.
Also our representatives in the government are paid to do this kind of inquiry. So if they are unable to find culprits, why not give back the jobs to citizens who would be able to protect their citizens and leaders from these mysterious deaths?
This is not a blame game. As a concerned citizen, I expect government and its representatives to do the jobs to which they were appointed to do it effectively. They should not be sitting back on their armchairs and watch this as an inevitable and prevalent deaths. This is not the first time we lost eminent people in the plane as such. Prominent people like Dr. Garang died of this kind of inexplicable deaths.
We should be spending billions of billions of pound on those who are concerned and are able to avoid it from happening and deliver services to their citizens as expected. If there are no experts on planes, then why not hire people who will do the job. We should not be saying that these ‘monies’ are cheaper because we get them from oil resources. Absolutely not, we have all sacrificed in our own different or unique ways.
We need to stop booking the so-called ‘ancient’ planes. If this private commercial company cannot afford brand new planes from the 21th century, why not stop booking from them. This is not the Dark Ages, or the Medieval eras. Indeed, we are in the 21th century with advance technological planes or moving forward planes.
If people can’t stop buying tickets from them, then why not government starts to reinforce or enact a law, which would prohibit buying from the phony commercial company like the one whose plane crashed. I am so sick of this and I urge government to urgently step in and do something by passing a law which would save lives. Stop buying tickets from them so that they can learn a lesson.
Investigating the manufacturers where this commercial company buy their planes, would be helpful and a terrific idea. There must be countries out there, which just care for money they get from their planes and do not care for qualities of their planes. So please you need to investigate this commercial company whose plane crashed recently.
I am a survivor of North-South Civil War and I am deeply concerned for the welfare of those who have survived to this point of post-civil war. The 23 souls we lost recently from the plane crash didn't deserve to die mysteriously. We ought to stop these mystifying deaths from being a fate. The plane is just a flying object and it must have a solution.
Enemy within please stop and use educated lens to see a big picture of the Sudan’s problems. Practicing silent vengeance in masterminding cold deaths to procure your ends is not the spirit of Sudan to which we all have sacrificed for.
*Deng Wuor Deng is a South Sudanes student of political science based in U.S.A.
