The Rule of Law: How to Create and Maintain it in Gok State

By Daniel Juol Nhomngek, Kampala, Uganda

Introduction

December 8, 2017 (SSB) — Before going into the discussion over how to create and maintain the rule of law in Gok State, it is imperative to acknowledge the fundamental roles played by different Gok people in being a constant voice of what should be done to achieve peace in Gok State. The first acknowledgment goes to our elder brother Tembany Matur Malek whose desires and actions are always for Gok State and Gok people. In fact, no amount of words that can be expressed to pay him back for his zeal and commitments to seeing Gok State a peaceful, united and prosperous state. In general, he has been a constant reminder of how to achieve peace in Gok State with the unwavering spirit.

In the same line, I would also like to acknowledge and thank our elder sister Helen Philip Ater Dhal and all other Gok people in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, other parts of Europe, China East African countries and inside South Sudan for their concerns and role tilted towards achieving peace in Gok State. Without over-exaggerating the contributions of the Gok people mentioned above, it is my conclusion that their contributions have made Gok State what it is today. Without their help, the majority of our people would have died during the war, especially from the 2000s to 2005 and from 2013 to date.

The Atemporal Vibrancy of Hon. Victor Atem Atem as Governor of Gogrial State

By Emmanuel Ariech Deng, Wunkuel, South Sudan

December 8, 2017 (SSB) — Most of the problems manufactured by men can equally be resolved by men if it is not a curse or taboo in human living. Any persistent conflict can be solved by God too. So let us be hopeful and agree that any other catastrophe engineered by men can get a solution if not by humans, then with the help of God or by nature.

There is no place on earth where the armed civilians can be stronger than the national army and government unless the perceived unwillingness or ignorance to stop the escalation of violence between fighting communities in South Sudan has a pointing finger of blame on individual or group conspiracies.

This idea of people are not the same is slowly entering into our rigid brains that even brothers/sisters of one woman-one man can be different in thinking and control measures when it comes to public concerns. Even the helter-skelter gubernatorial predecessor of Hon. Atem Atem has admitted and acknowledged that his tenure had insinuated a wider leadership vacuum and partisanism in the State.

In Our Old Days

By Riak Marial Riak, Juba, South Sudan

We loved to talk of revolutionaries

like John Garang, Karbino Kuanyin,

Brainstorming of unexplained powers of Manyang Jok

and the unforgiving power of Tong Luoc –

about how he could dance in the fire

without burning his skin.