SOUTH SUDAN LIBERATION ARMY SSLA.
The MAYOM DECLARATION
In this photo; Maj. General Peter
Gadet Yak addresses troops in Abyei, June 2008. Photo: AFP
My fellow citizens of South Sudan,
DATE:
11/4/2011
Today it is historical day in South
Sudan as country and its people. It is a day that will go dawn in history of
new nation for second phase for our liberation struggle against unjust rule
by our sons and daughters in the SPLM led government. From the start, we
thank all Southern Sudanese for their free choice which all of us had
tirelessly worked for and resulted to be the Republic of Southern Sudan on
the 9th of July2011.
My fellow citizens,
Our nation had groomed a monster
that will swallow generation after generation in terms of bad leadership and
extreme level of corruption which poisons our values and tradition that
rejects thefts in our midst. It
is a fact that the comprehensive peace agreement was a landmark in the
history of the Sudan in general and South Sudan in particular. It set the
country on the path to democratic transformation and the respect of human
rights.
For
South Sudan, CPA promised the people of the South the exercise of the right
of Self-determination though an internationally supervised referendum,
instituted government that was, for all practical purposes, independent
politically, economically and security wise. It is true that we had been
running our affairs by ourselves without interferences from Khartoum, but
our bad administration in Juba always point finger to Northern Sudan to
cover their failure.
Is
it logical that the disappearance of billions of pounds from our finance be
blamed on the North?
My fellow citizens,
What we saw in the six years of the
interim period was a complete deviation from the path set by the CPA. There
is an absolute failure in the area of good governance. For instance our
entire nation has witnessed rampant corruption on the top echelon of GOSS.
It is shocking that only five years in government, the private bank accounts
of the leadership of GOSS in foreign banks fatting from Zero to tens of
millions of Dollars! Little wonder that the more than 20 billion dollars of
oil revenue received by GOSS could not be seen in terms of tangible services
delivery in areas such as health, education, water, etc. Our children went
without schools while the Children of our leaders enjoyed the best education
in foreign lands. Our people continued to die from treatable diseases while
those in charge and their families visited the best hospitals abroad. In
fact, the current leadership of GOSS never felt the sense of belonging to
the South for their families continued to stay in their expensive mansion in
east Africa, America, Australia, etc. These leaders of GOSS continue to
siphon off the meagre resources of the South bleeding our people dry. Who is
now the enemy of our people?
It is crystal clear like a noon day, that the accounts of GOSS were
never audited for the last six years of the interim period. The noise and
empty statements of zero tolerance of corruption in Juba is bogus and hollow
because none in Juba is capable of doing so for they are all in the thick of
it.
My fellow countrymen,
Your armed force, SPLA, is in a
miserable state. It is budgeted more than 40% of the total budget of GOSS
every financial year. Yet, your soldiers are poorly paid and some of them
have not received any salary since the CPA was signed! The General high
command eats up most of the budget allocated to the SPLA. Furthermore, many
officers are not given assignments and promotion system is so discriminative
to the extent that many have been in one rank for almost ten years. The
wounded heroes had been forgotten and even the families of the martyrs are
neglected.
The law and order has broken down as
police is poorly trained and its functions are taken over by private armies,
and unconstitutional security, the so-called, Special Branch, whose bulk are
one family and one ethnic group. The judicial system is politicised and a
good number of judges do not deserve to sit on the bench. Hence you cannot
speak of the rule of law in Southern Sudan under the current injudicious
leadership.
In the states the security has
broken down due to tribal and sectional fights gripping the South as the
traditional leaders are deprived of their traditional authority. County
commissioners have turned the counties into fiefdoms and their misbehaviour
has become a source of insecurity. On the political level, the SPLM
leadership continues to pursue the politics of exclusion within itself and
outside it. It denies the other Southern political parties the right to
propagate their ideas and present their political program to the people.
Above all, the SPLM leadership used SPLA high command to intimidate other
leaders in the South reducing the level of our supposedly national army to a
party militia. The noises of victory by the SPLM in the last elections in
the South are preposterous and ludicrous, we in the SPLA know the truth.
The exclusion politics of the SPLM
has generated extreme disillusionment with the SPLM among the people of
South Sudan. However, many people were restrained from taking action by the
fact that everybody was awaiting the conduct of the referendum. This was
misread by the SPLM as impotence and inability to do something.
The leadership of the SPLM was
abusing our patriotism for their narrow interests. Again after the result of
referendum was announced, the SPLM reneged on the resolutions of the South
-South dialogue conference on post-referendum arrangements thus throwing
away the last chance for the South to close its ranks. Now that the people
of South Sudan have voted for a state of their own, now is the time to say
enough is enough.
My fellow citizens,
To bring to an end the suffering of
our people, and stop the glide of our newly born state into an abyss under
the current corrupt gangs in Juba, I have decided, today, to denounce and
reject the evil practices against my people by GOSS leadership. The
objectives we intend to achieve include the following: