THE REAL SPLM/A ARE SELLING CHARCOAL
By. Ayella John Bosco, 16th May 2025
In 2008, the SPLM political party
embarked on carrying out a census of its members and recruitment through
registration. I officially registered as a party member in Nimule, which
earmarked my love for politics and community issues. I did not know of any
other political parties until 2010 when Dr. Lam Akol formed his SPLM DC to
stand against Salva Kiir, the then President of the Southern Sudan Government.
I had several reasons for joining the SPLM
party, amongst others was the pressure to shape my political career through
attaching to it. This did not go well through the experiences I had observed,
for example, the current Member of Parliament under the OPP who represents Madi
corridor in Torit assembly suffered suppression, although he had been active
promoting the SPLM agenda.
SPLM originally had a great vision
shaped by the unity of the people, equality, and liberty for all who fought
collectively for the independence of the people. Unfortunately, this vision
ended up with the key founding members like Dr. John Garang, Kerbino Kuanyin,
William Nyuon and the rest. The remaining cadres have corrupted and tainted the
vision of the party to the extent that my membership ID voluntarily got lost. This
reminds me of what happened when Joshua died; the next leadership in Israel
drove people into a spiral conflict throughout the Judges’ time. Judges 1:1,
2:11 onwards
Today marks the 42nd year
of the party's existence, but is it worth celebrating? What do South Sudanese, and
especially the party members, celebrate as achievements of the SPLM? A Party
that lost direction and is headed nowhere, a party that uses the national army
to bomb its citizens, a party that profiles nations discriminatively to kill,
does not deserve recognition, and that is the SPLM of today.
While the party claims a legacy of independence
for the nations from the Islamic rule and tyranny, people should know that the
level of life under the SPLM party is worse than the Jalabas. Many can testify
about the hypocrisies, until the SPLM returns freedom to the people, until the
SPLM returns power to the people, until the SPLM returns nations to the people,
it will continue to be the only problem of South Sudanese in South Sudan and Africa
as a whole.
You will notice that the SPLM existed as
SPLM/A only between 1983 and 2011. Whatever we have now is not SPLM but bunches
of looters, bunches of terrorists and killers, bunches of corruptors, bunches
of visionless elites. SPLM previously paid their SPLA, but the current SPLM is
unable not only to pay SSPDF but also the civil servants. That is why SPLM does
not exist any longer.
As citizens of this great-to-be nation,
let us be mindful of whom to give credit to; not everyone who dresses in a red T-shirt
is SPLM/A. The real SPLM/A are selling charcoal because they are afraid to loot
their own. The real SPLM/A are quarry stones and selling firewood to take care
of their families since their rights have been denied by a bunch of robbers called
SPLM under President Kiir.
With all that in mind, joining the SPLM
party politics now is just a brain drain, a bedwetting dream that no sensible
and patriotic citizen must do. If anyone wishes to celebrate this day because
his father, like mine, or mother fought for independence, let it be in future
when the nation restores hope to the people.
The opinion expressed here is solely of the writer; no one stands to claim responsibility for it. The Writer is a Writer, Blogger, Critic and Activist and can be reached at abunerry700.v@gamil.com
