{"id":2298,"date":"2021-09-29T18:35:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/silent-citizens-deserve-country-of-suffering-like-south-sudan-academic"},"modified":"2021-09-30T06:12:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T06:12:54","slug":"silent-citizens-deserve-country-of-suffering-like-south-sudan-academic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/silent-citizens-deserve-country-of-suffering-like-south-sudan-academic","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Silent citizens\u2019 deserve country of suffering like South Sudan \u2013 academic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>One of the founders of the Juba-based Sudd Institute is saying that South Sudanese citizens are responsible for what is happening to their country now for glorifying the ruling Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party despite the immense suffering from natural calamities, man-made violence and hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Jok Madut Jok said on his social media Facebook page that despite the suffering of the South Sudanese citizens, some youth have been made into glorifying the SPLM party despite having failed to deliver the badly needed services to the suffering people of South Sudan and that citizens who do not question their leaders deserves the suffering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompare the following photos,\u201d he said, pointing to two photos in which women were see one the first photo evacuating a sick person from inside floods and the second of young men plus President\u2019s Kiir\u2019s security advisor wearing suit in a function to thank the president for appointing Peter Lam Both as Secretary-General of the ruling part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne is the only ambulance available to our people in rural areas to get their severely sick people to the nearest health center. The second and third are SPLM leaders and their supporting youth having an expensive soir\u00e9e, a junket at Freedom Hall, paid from state coffers, to thank Salva Kiir for appointing some people into the ruling party\u2019s leadership positions and to celebrate the ascent to power of people who have forgotten about the villages they come from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the country that Salva Kiir calls himself the President of, it is the country we deserve for being silent citizens, upon whom this abuse and the nonsense called governance is being exercised!,\u201d he said, adding that citizens should speak against the SPLM corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we cannot question these abuses, who do we blame for our suffering? If we say \u2018SPLM oyee\u2019, even as we get washed away by floods, starve to death, die of preventable disease and generation of our kids go without education, so that some people can evidently eat so well, who is responsible?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. One of the founders of the Juba-based Sudd Institute is saying that South Sudanese citizens are responsible for what is happening to their country now for glorifying the ruling Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party despite the immense suffering from natural calamities, man-made violence and hunger. 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