CAN SPLM UNDO THE MESSES IT BUILT? The Difficult Question a Voter Must Ask on the Road to the Elections.

The SPLM, as the mother party, is tormenting people with election excuses to redo its manifestos. Only those who were born yesterday or are yet to be born will fail to understand the messes the SPLM government has created for the citizens of South Sudan. There is a high risk that there will be elections in December. As the people prepare and the momentum gears up, everyone should ask each SPLM member who surfaces to answer serious questions that should drive them to undo the messes they created.

To the people of the Greater Eastern Equatoria State, keep the following calls in your pocket and shout them louder whenever any SPLM candidate comes to deceive you. Listen to what they have to say about the past 15 years; have them answer.

i. If it has failed to construct interstate and inter-county roads, which roads is it going to construct, and how?
ii. Which hospitals or health facilities is it going to build if it has failed to build any in the last 15 years?
iii. Which village schools is it going to improve if it cannot pay a single teacher?
iv. How is it going to return the benefits of the country's resources to the community?

These, and several other questions, when correctly answered, can put the SPLM back on track with its promises. Otherwise, it is a dream for any SPLM cadet to run amok; the elections are coming in December.

The scent of an old dog breeds a furious skunk odour. That is the intoxicating life of the SPLM party. The SPLM should not pretend it can undo the messes it built. The only hope for Eastern Equatoria is a new face with a new political gist to lead the people forward. However, if the SPLM has an unused person on its list of cadres, that could be tried.

Kindly, do not rely on the deceptive slogans they sing, but rather on the realities that a party or an individual can deliver. That should be everyone's ambition in the coming elections, if they are held.

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Sir. Abunerry

Writer, Critic, and Poet.

Nimule.

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