{"id":452022,"date":"2011-07-01T15:19:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/01\/any-award-should-be-about-southern-sudan-pride-mr-professor\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T15:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T15:19:13","slug":"any-award-should-be-about-southern-sudan-pride-mr-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/01\/any-award-should-be-about-southern-sudan-pride-mr-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Award Should Be About Southern Sudan Pride, Mr. Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Isaiah Abraham<\/p>\n

30 June 2011<\/p>\n

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opinion<\/p>\n

I find an article written yesterday (June 29, 2011) by a Southern Sudanese researcher Dr. John A. Akec about Gogrial contribution nationally and international offensive and tasteless. I must debunk it against him not the entire Gogrial people. Dr. Aketch blew the horn of Greater Gogrial so loud that his self inflated pride analogously reminds me of a Biblical Pharisee who stood aloft in the temple and prayed thus: ” God I thank you that I’m not like other men”, (Luke 18:9-11). Mr. John exactly wanted to portray other Southern Sudanese as ‘robbers’, ‘evildoers’ and ‘tax collectors’.<\/p>\n

The good professor moreover didn’t end his ‘holier than thou’ lecture but twisted historical facts about the liberation struggle for the people of Southern Sudan to suit his home boys and girls. He had attempted to make Mr. Kiir wiser than Solomon, and Ms Wek more beautiful than Diana of Britain, a design we all know is typical of Dinka people. The truth of the matter is that Gen. Kiir is wise because Southerners are wise and the same is true with Alek Wek. It is Southern Sudan that makes anyone somebody, and not the other way round! The party he leads to be specific makes anyone!<\/p>\n

Kiir inherited anger, frustration and ‘dogged’ determination long enough right from the time of Fr. Saturino down to Garang, and nothing here he had achieved singlehandedly through his wisdom to liberate the people of Southern Sudan. Even Garang, if alive, couldn’t claim to have liberated Southern Sudan. It is the combination of efforts from 1947 to 2005 that count not an individual whose fate smiled at him once at a time in the process of the struggle.<\/p>\n

It would be affront to our martyrs if we allotted an award or recognition to one individual or a few. I am talking here about national contribution Dr. John highlighted in his Gogrial elevation piece. International award is a different thing all together as the choice doesn’t necessarily mean celebrities or achievements.<\/p>\n

Dr. Akec must not get carried away about ‘his people’ individual contribution so to insult the intelligence of other Southerners. Southern Sudanese have made it collectively to this end, I must repeat myself. Any success by an individual or group in any part of our land was for a larger good of all Southern Sudanese. Southern Sudan at the moment needs a tone that unites not a voice that scatters. We want to brag together as one people, not as sections or clans.<\/p>\n

We have all suffered or contributed, and by any measure each individual in the South has contributed nationally or internationally. There is no point therefore for one section of our society to push itself above others as if the freedom for the people of Southern Sudan was the work of Gogrial people. There are similar stories in Bari, Shilluk or Nuer but these people don’t go public to make mounts about what their daughters or sons have achieved for the nation. May be people need to know what constitutes national contribution. Becoming a minister alone doesn’t make anyone a contributor for the struggle of the people of Southern Sudan.<\/p>\n

Mr. Professor your naked gloat about Gogrial on the expense of other Southern Sudanese has blinded you to spew venom against critics of Gogrial kitchen Government. You have easily forgotten, sir, that you were few nights ago one. Was that not you Mr. Akec who has written extensively against the government of your people? You claim wildly that Kiir has stolen election, wasn’t that substantiated by facts on the ground? Were you not the one who labeled GOSS as government that is run by good fighters but not good managers’? You said Kiir regime has done much in the past six years compares to previous years during Addis Ababa Accord, what are you telling our people brother here? Don’t you care that your brother Government sits over a dented government ‘dogged’ by corruption, largely orchestrated by your home boys? Do you want to mention the Baaks, the Achuils, the Manutes etc?<\/p>\n

Dr. Akec if it weren’t corruption how did you become a Vice Chancellor of a college within a span of few years after you graduated with a PhD? could your part time lectures in South Africa make go up like that? How many Southerners with many years in classes in colleges holding ‘proper’ PhDs that never made it to head universities? You have been quiet and now started to shower praises to Kiir, is that normal really? Someone thought you are reaping were you never sowed. Where on earth could an associate professor becoming a Vice Chancellor within two years.<\/p>\n

If I look at some people you said have contributed for the liberation of the people of Southern Sudan, it makes me pluck a demur against anything positive you have done about Southern Sudan. Please brother, leave Hon. Aleu Ayieu Aleu alone! This man is a hero; he was fought fiercely by the then Col. Salva Mathok around Cueibet, Lakes State, when your hero (Mathok) was still a Sudanese army Officer. Let Aweil people brag not Gogrial, otherwise you are making mockery of anything and spoil a good celebration for us all. I must stop here for the sake of our martyrs in Gogrial, some of whom aren’t in your today’s list.<\/p>\n

Isaiah Abraham lives in Juba<\/em><\/p>\n

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