South Sudan NGOs inhibit development through expertrates.

Most of south Sudanese are getting discouraged by the way their government has sat back watching her citizens being mistreated by the so-called "Expatriates."
The Sudanese do all the work that keeps up all these Organizations in their operation but to be remarked upon that the Sudanese are not qualified to run their own affairs. This statement has been inherited from the Arabs and if we do not rid ourselves of it will flow back to our enemy and it will be the song of the day when we claim for our Independence.
I wonder how people would want us to be 'qualified.’ The same World Universities that we go to are where these Quakes also go to. We were even beating these colleagues that are being imposed on us just today. I cannot tolerate this abuse of our professionalism, some people have found our blood so sweet that they suck it like leeches leaving us with nothing – blood lost for self Determination from the Imperialists.

I would also like to ask if our Government is not interested in the Taxes and other ways of raising money, I know of income taxes which is the Major Tax base for the Government. The higher you earn, they higher you pay to the Government. It is our Duty to keep up our Government in terms of this revenue. It's become disgusting if all the High paying Jobs are given to the Foreigners who do not know the needs of our people, whose aim is to wait for the months to end so that they amass this wealth from us.
Why do we watch while the country is being looted by people who do not serve our people? I know of an organization where the So-called Expatriates have pasted themselves with All sorts of allowances called 'Hardship allowances' on top of big Salaries which is three times the salaries paid to the Sudanese counterparts who do all the works while these people sit down looking at the computer screens, faking Reports of what they have not done throughout the months.
I do not know how long it takes to write these reports if the work has been actually been done. I also wonder why people who have been hired to do equal jobs are paid differently, so long as they do the same job regardless of Nationalities; they should be paid equally.
I have often heard people complain that western countries repatriate all the money loaned to Third World countries by sending their expatriates to come and watch over how the money is being spent and then get the big salaries. My question here is what have Kenyans who kept our Refugees suffering stealing what belongs to them donated to us as a south Sudan that they are cheating us like this while we are watching?
How many South Sudanese are idle with no jobs here yet their rightful positions are being occupied by the Wrong people who not only do the right Jobs but steal on top? The Followings Questions Deserve to be asked by our Fellow Sudanese who might be in the same Battle like me:-
1- Why is our Government so Occupied with corruption in the public sector leaving the NGO sector where corruption is ripe too?
2- What are we paying back to the so called Kenyans expatriates that they are left cheating our people while we watch?
3- Who mandated the Kenyans to be singing this song that the South Sudanese are not yet Qualified to run on their own? Is it meant to lull us to sleep while they carry away what is meant to benefit our people?
Where is the Benefit that we are getting from all the cheats they are doing on our soil? Is it not better to give the Sudanese the Money to study with than giving it to the Kenyans who do not do the Jobs, get big salaries and again send the money to Kenya? When are we going to Develop?
4- Are we too inferior that we can not face blunders Kenyans are causing on our Soil? There are so many Economics policies that can be put in place to expel these people or reduce their Numbers, the Educated South Sudanese now are ten times more than the Kenyans who were educated at their time of Independence yet they did not call any Nation to come and bring them far than they have come now.

It becomes Disturbing to me if we have resigned to the Subjugation of the Foreigner like this yet we have some Solutions and Economists at our Disposal which can be put to use to aid us out of the problems. These include the following:-
1- Watching over the recruitment of the Organizations to be focused on the Sudanese .
2- focusing on the payment between the Nationals and the Expatriates on how the pays are administered. It should not be left to NGOS alone- the government should oversee the transparency of this process.
3- Putting in place the Economic policies that will deter the Intruders from making our country their land such as taxing them highly on the income they Get from here.
I do not know what is so good about Kenyans. Who does not know here in Africa and the world over the Corruption that's ripe in Kenya? I wonder whether Kenyans have Bewitched us- Contractors, Employees, and consultants in the South are Kenyans, no wonder that is why Our systems are not working, they want us to be stagnant so that they remain to Benefit from Us.
Are we not the Sudanese whom Kenyans have often harassed in their Country? Why can we put in place competition if we have agreed that we are not Qualified by hiring consultants from Other countries like South Africa other than this Kenya which has been in Sudan for the last twenty years misappropriating resources in this land?
4- Asking all NGOS working for South Sudan to move their Head Offices to Juba other than in Nairobi, this should be done by quickening the land bills so that they either lease, rent or even buy land. Here we have been cheated in many Fronts; Our media houses are not benefiting from the Adverts, our people do not get the information because they advertised on Kenyans papers.
5- Keeping in Control migration to our Country so that it does not become any body's land, it has owners.
Who among us south Sudanese who have been in Kenya have not been through the experience of the Kitu Kidoko- 'something small' saga that would swindle all the little money you could have only to be returned if you could not afford the last police post.
It is prudent to keep check at our borders and even deny some people entry to our land- it is a right that we should also be proud of. We should learn from how others protect their rights - look at The Area Code of Uganda we borrowed for a while, how heavily we paid taxes for it and the noise the Ugandan made in regards to that.
6- Checking what types of Positions are occupied by Nationals in all the Organizations- all employees of Some NGOS are Foreigners and they do this without remorse- Employment is one of the ways through which the Government makes itself acceptable to the people by creating Jobs for the Citizens.

I hope some of these Suggestions will serve as change of Status Quo to the recruitment process in the NGOS sector which is supposed to benefit our People in terms of both Employment and direct Delivery of services which is not happening and I do not see why Our Government can not put it to Check because:-
1- Every time Donors return Money which is meant for our People Because the Project is not implemented because the so-called Expatriates just sit in the self created Offices doing nothing not meeting the Deadline the Donors set.
2-the So called Expatriates do not know what our people need their interest is money yet our people yearn in Suffering to get the service and they are being given what is not a priority to them.
3-the Human envy is what I have also seen, other Expatriates say, why all these good things for the Sudanese after all it will make them better to serve themselves letting us go hence loose our bread, so sabotage is here ripe. I do not see some one who will ever open the eye of a blind man whom he devours while sharing the little bread..


Please regulate our systems. It would be wise of if the Government will be the one to call the people it needs from Out than any self proclaimed Experts whose Qualification is in doubt. In that way we shall always know what we want and in what Quantity and quality. If not these people will cheat us up to the last minute when we may wake up.
My advice to our fellow southerners is, this is an aggression and some of us lean towards these people unknowingly. Please assure any cheat in your Organization where you are at the lower Cadres that the posts belong to you. Do not let yourselves be used to meet the objectives of some unscrupulous people who came here to make money at the expense of our people.

Sudan Military troops redeployed

30 October 2007 – (Nairobi, Kenya) – All SPLA forces are south of the January 1st, 1956 border. This statement from the chairman of the Southern Sudan Peace Commission and the newly-appointed Minister of Humanitarian Affairs in the Government of National Unity, Mr. James Kok.

In an exclusive interview with Sudan Radio Service last week in Nairobi, Mr. Kok said that other than those attached to Joint Integrated Units, no SPLA soldier remains north of the 1956 border, in accordance with the CPA. Mr. Kok was responding to allegations leveled by National Congress Party Deputy Nafie Ali Nafie on October 11th that only 6% of SPLA soldiers had withdrawn from the north.

[James Kok]: “The SPLA soldiers have moved from all the areas that they are not supposed to be, and they were brought to the south of the 1956 border. And if you need witnesses, they can go and witness. And the SAF has withdrawn from some parts of the areas in the south but not all the areas. According to the CPA, they were supposed to be out since the 9th of January 2007. They are still in Unity state, Upper Nile state and Western Bahr el Ghazal state and this is against the CPA.”

He said that the SAF are concentrated in the oil-rich areas, where only Joint Integrated Units are supposed to operate.

Section three of the security arrangements protocol of the CPA says that other than those in the JIU’s, all SAF troops were to be redeployed north of the 1956 border and SPLA troops south of that border as of January 2007.

In other news, Mr. Kok denied rumors that the SPLM is behind the decision by some of Darfur’s anti-government groups not to attend the peace talks in Libya. He says the SPLM’s goal in the Darfur peace talks was to unite the anti-government groups so that they would all participate and speak with one voice, saying “a home that is divided cannot succeed.” He said that in the workshops with the anti-government groups in Juba, the SPLM encouraged the groups to attend the peace talks in Libya.

[James Kok]: “I have gone to France twice to persuade Abdul Wahid al-Nur to come and join his brothers so that they can agree with one voice to attend the peace talks and bring peace to Darfur. Then how can we at the same time tell them not to attend, unless it is the enemies of SPLA speaking like that?”

Abdul Wahid al-Nur is the leader of the largest Sudan Liberation Movement faction that has refused to attend the talks in Libya.

Mr. Kok added that although the SPLM has recalled its senior officials from the Government of National Unity, it is still “working hard” to see that there is peace in the whole of Sudan, including Darfur.

Census Updates

30 October 2007 – (Juba) – If people are not counted, the resources allocated to them by government may be too small. That warning from Government of Southern Sudan Vice President Riek Machar, speaking in Juba on Saturday during the publicity launch of the nationwide census to be conducted in February.

Speaking to a crowd, Dr. Machar said that the census is important because it will be the basis for all governments’ distribution of resources to Sudan’s regions and people.

[Dr. Machar]: “If we are not counted, the resources that the government allocates will be too small for us. We have different levels of government. There is the central government in Khartoum; it has resources it divides to the people of Sudan and they only do this by numbers. And if the Government of Southern Sudan wants to allocate resources, then it will be done with the consideration of numbers and even the state government will also do the same, based on the numbers of the people.”

Dr. Machar reminded people to be in Sudan by the night of February first to second in order to be eligible for counting in the census.

UNJLC NORTH-SOUTH CONVOY

UNJLC is planning to resume light vehicle convoys from Khartoum to Juba,
similar to the one from last June. The 1st convoy is tentatively scheduled
to leave on November 3, 2007 from Khartoum. It will be lead by Nicolas
Daher (UNJLC Senior Logistician) and will take approximately 6 to 7 days
depending on the convoy route and unexpected delays.

The maximum number of 10 vehicles (Land Cruisers, Patrols, Land Rovers,
etc.) allowed on each convoy is. We would like a equitable mix of UN and
INGO vehicles. No trucks or buses will be permitted during the convoy, not even 3TN light trucks.

The routing will be as follow:

- Day 1: Khartoum to El-Obeid
- Day 2: El-Obeid to Keilak via Dilling (perhaps staying in Abyei)
- Day 3: Keilak (Abyei) to Aweil via Meiram
- Day 4: Aweil to Wau
- Day 5: Wau to Rumbek
- Day 6: Rumbek to Juba via Mundri if river is low and light
vehicles are able to pass, if not - detour to Yei
- Day 7: Yei to Juba


If you are interested in sending a vehicle down to Juba from Khartoum then this is the best opportunity for you.

South Sudan Missed EAC

OIL-RICH South Sudan has requested to join the East African Community (EAC) as businesspersons from the block increasingly target booming trade in the semi-autonomous region.

However EAC turned down the request saying only South Sudan was not a sovereign State as it is part of the Sudan.

Uganda's State Minister for Trade Nelson Wambuzi Gagawala told journalists of the application by the Government of South Sudan (GOSS).

EAC, which brings together Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Rwanda, is among Africa's strongest regional groupings with a combined market of 120 million people.

"Southern Sudan has applied to join the EAC. In fact also Khartoum wants to join," Gagawala said on Friday.

A Ugandan senior official in charge of East Africa and Great Lakes Region affairs corroborated the minister's position.

He said: "They (GOSS) actually applied during the April 2007 summit.

However, the Heads of State advised South Sudan to apply when they are a sovereign state (in case they seceded after a referendum)," Kagamba said.

With a population of about 14 million people, South Sudan is seeking to secede from the Arab-north in a bid to consolidate black-Christian leadership.

The secession will be decided in the forthcoming referendum.

Uganda's Minister for Regional Cooperation, Isaac Musumba, had earlier voiced a similar position to the press. "We cannot deal with them since South Sudan is not yet a sovereign state.

It is still part of Sudan," Musumba said.

GOSS's interest in EAC comes at a time when thousands of East African traders are flocking the southern Sudan market that is reported to have extensive unexploited resources.

"I think they want to join the bloc because they mainly trade with East Africa.

I do not think there is any other reason. You know they fetch a biggest percentage of their goods through Mombassa.

Therefore they need to join the Community so that taxes are lifted," Kagamba said.

To join the EAC, a country must be a neighbour of the bloc, have a common market and have a democratically elected government.

According to Musumba, South Sudan has drafted an investment policy to enrich trade with its neighbours.

The investment plan is worth $32 million which they are yet to raise.

A number of traders especially Kenyans and Ugandans from around the region have asserted themselves on the South Sudan market especially in petty trade.

"Our greatest regional market is Southern Sudan. Our traders are sending more goods to southern Sudan, which is a food basket for the entire country.

Southern Sudan has immense potential. It has a huge land mass.

The land is so fertile and very beautiful. For any energetic people, it is the way to go," Gagawala said.

However, despite being an attractive market for East Africa, southern Sudan remains less accessible. Roads are in a pitiable state and there are few accommodation facilities, which are charged at exorbitant prices.

But Musumba, who about two weeks ago had led a Ugandan ministerial delegation to Southern Sudan on a bilateral mission, said they had agreed with GOSS leadership on joint transport routes including a railway line that will run from Juba through northern Uganda to Mombassa.

Gagawala, Uganda's Trade Minister also said GOSS intends to erect an oil pipeline to Uganda.

A few months ago the GOSS Minister for Regional Cooperation, Dr. Benjamin Barnaba Marial said that in future they would build a refinery at the border with Uganda and Kenya.