The Bush, the Love and the corruption
First of let me declare that I love Sudan (south-couldn't give a F**** about the north) and all its people. (realise how we do that when we know that what we are going to say next will not be very flattering?) They have adopted me in a way I can not imagine or believe that Kenyans would. But the fact that I love them does not mean I can't see the wrong that is going on.
In the last 3 months I have been to almost every corner of this vast country (and it is big I tell you). The peace signing was hyped so much and it was seen as the second coming. It was like manna was gonna start falling the moment peace was signed....Every villager believed it. Everywhere you go they tell you the same thing. How they knew their lives would improve. Unfortunately this euphoria has turned into despair and distrust for the leaders- who are unelected.
This is the third year since the CPA was signed and nothing is happening. No schools are being built, no roads, no hospitals.
Many of the official are people who had fled the war to countries like Kenya, unfortunately they learnt a little too well from our Kenyan politicians how to get paid to do nothing. There are rumours that some government officials receive a salary but they live in the US and UK...........HOW ????????? Another rumour has it that ministers are paid 35,000 USD to go for treatment abroad. SERIOUSLY? whether this rumours are true or not, the fact remains that they are in the public perception and this is how the public views them.
What is not a rumour is that the equivalent of a Provincial Commissioner drivers around with almost 8 cars and more that 20 security guards. This show of affluence in the face of people who can barely afford one meal a day is unfortunately only matched by NGO's. Aaaaach African leaders when shall we learn.
Well, I better stop there before I get arrested like the so called Rumbek 6. Apparently there are quiet a number who have been arrested and remanded bila trial for eons........and try being arrested in a country without laws!
17 comments:
RiEcenise!!
How prevalent is use of the kenya shilling in S. Sudan as currency? Is it as much as the US dollar and what are the exchange rates?
Sad state of affairs. Hope it improves soon!
TIA!! African leaders are bila shame, there is no way I can leave in the affluence that they afford themselves, while the people I "represent" are wallowing in extreme poverty with not even the smallest basic needs met. Saa zingine, I think they'll need to kwenda!!
It seems like a pattern for sub-saharan Africa, that after acquiring freedom from either colonisers or other dominators, the very black leaders now want to dominate over their very own! Then after much suffering, hopefully, there will be a second liberation. Zimbabwe is a case in point. Which is really sad.
Same ol' African story.
Lakini where does ALL that money to pay leaders come from? Ama public coffers never become empty even after decades of war?
Pity really, real pity...Wats that that passed over Egypt killing all the first born sons? Yeah that we need something like that for our Wadosis here....hakuna dawa!!
it is so sad that while others are suffering there is a whole bunch of politicians living fancy lives. will this ever change? empty promises, lies,despair :-(
Echoing Majonzi, TIA. An unfortunate thing that that is something that is not surprising. And that good governance that ensures equitable distribution of wealth among the populace is the exception rather than the rule.
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We are our own undoing. If only we could look and learn then maybe just maybe...
@ Banks:
Kenya shilling is widely used all over south sudan. the exchange rate however depends on the mood of the traders on any given day. And they have just introduced a new currency for South sudan, i.e. Sudanese Pound. So exchange rates are not yet published.
@aegeus:
Hopefully now that donors have refused to release money they may change
@Majonzi
Wish we were courageous enough to sack all this people
@Mwari
Uncle Dick is a real Dick
@ Prou
They are now accessing the oil revenue which is almost 10 billion per year
@bants
hear hear! only sons though
@chatterly:
only we can change that-power of the ballot and all that.
@EGM
sad. It may never change though
@ALEX
SHIDWE
@ Gish
with batted breath we wait
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Alex
You Sober?
It's extremely ironic that leaders can live in such affluence and justify being paid to do nothing (except fly abroad and buy cars and get more money) meanwhile their people barely surviving harsh poverty remain optimistic.
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