Lagu Recommends to Consider Unity in the Future

January 20, 2011
Dear all,

First of all, I am not sure I understand whom Mr. Lagu represents in the conference call. Ethically, he should have discussed such a matter in the office of the president of GoSS. Even though his criticism is constructive, its ethical process diffuses it. From my understanding, an advisor should be testifying on behalf of the government in issues or areas of their expertise. The article bellow does not sound like a testimony.

On the matter of whether we should leave the door open for unity, I definitely decline to that. We had left the door open for decades and “The Unity Made Attractive” was the last in process. Perhaps Mr. Lagu still endeavors the Addis Ababa Agreement, or at list has a different prospective on the issue of secession. On the other hand, the two Germans are a no match to our situations. They were one nation, one in culture and had the same equality. The only difference was their political prospective. We on the other had, are two different classes, two different nations and two different cultures. There are no mutual benefits. We were forced to live in one country to serve the benefit of the North.
With that in mine, I think Mr. Lagu conference call falls way short in today’s governance and today’s rights of the Southerners.
Click or cut and paste the link bellow:
http://www.sudantribune.com/Southern-Sudan-should-initiate,37691

Southern Sudan should initiate term limits, says presidential aide
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By Julius N. Uma

January 19, 2010 (JUBA) - The southern government should initiate term limits to effectively determine the duration of officers serving in public interest, Joseph Lagu, a senior presidential adviser has advised.

Joseph Lagu, the presidential aide on public affairs addressing the media during a dinner in Juba. January 15, 2010 (Photo: Matata Safi) Lagu, who formerly served as Sudan’s first vice-president, told a media briefing in Juba, the regional state capital, that it is the tendency of leaders clinging on to power for so, which caused lots of instabilities in the country.

“Let’s not follow the steps taken by the successive northern regimes. There are advantages that usually come with political power, but the problem is that those in charge are tempted to hang on for so long. We need to have term limits,” Lagu, a presidential aide on public affairs said.

Flanked by Barnaba Benjamin Marial, the Information and Broadcasting minister, Lagu further talked at length about the practice of tribalism and discrimination, saying the future of the Southern Sudan will be brighter, if the politics of regional imbalances are discouraged.

He said, “We need to fight tribalism by selecting leaders on the basis of good leadership based on democratic principles. Let us not repeat the mistakes made by previous regimes.”

Lagu, a former Anyanya leader in the first north-south war, also castigated the past colonial British administration for the major problems inherited by the county in 1956.

The senior advisor to South Sudan president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, said much as the semi-autonomous region is set to become a separate entity, an open door approach should be adopted, incase future options for a united Sudan become feasible.

“My advice at the moment is that lets us leave the door open for the possible re-union of the Sudan. When they [northern Sudanese] come to their senses and remove some of the factors that caused the split within the country, then we could think of a re-union as one,” Lagu said.

He cited East and West Germany, which was separated before it was reunified in 1989.

The semi-autonomous region of south Sudan successfully concluded its self-determination referendum on January 15, which was a key prerequisite of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). The accord ended over two decades of a bloody civil war fought between north and south of the country.

Preliminary reports, however, indicate that the nearly 4 million registered voters overwhelmingly chose separation instead of a united Sudan, an indication that Africa’s 54th nation could soon be created.

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