Christmas and New Year Message To South Sudan

Fellow South Sudanese, on behalf of United South Sudan Party (USSP), I wish you merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.

I hope that the Year 2010 brings us real peace and independence. Independence will not come easily or automatically, though, as some would like to think. South Sudan must take the right steps and the right actions in the remaining period leading up to the referendum. It is still possible that the South could lose out totally if it does not seriously and meticulously push for a complete implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Any changes to the CPA now, as some anti-CPA forces are suggesting, will totally undermine and nullify the CPA and the South will automatically be back to square one. That will benefit only the North and not the South. So, Southerners, watch out! Don’t be deceived! Let us all insist in one voice that the original CPA remains and must be implemented to the letter. I am sure the South is not naïve to be bribed or duped into rejecting the very independence it has fought for, for many decades, unless something is fundamentally wrong. South Sudanese, you can rest assured that you will all, without exception, be much, much better without the North. Any difficulties you are facing now are temporary and will fade away under a proper, better and more capable South Sudanese leadership. A more reputable and visionary South Sudanese leadership will be able to lead the South out of the existing deplorable state of affairs.

The present tribalism, corruption, mismanagement and lack of good governance have, understandably, prompted some of you to think you would be better off under the North. That is a serious illusion, not worth contemplating for even a second. There is nothing at all good in being under the North. We have been there all our lives and have gained nothing apart from the status of second class citizenship. Come on, South Sudan! Be confident and believe in yourself and not in the North. Don’t you ever think that the North will do anything to your advantage. He who wants to enslave you will never advise you to be free! You must be wary of any advice he pretends to offer you! That is common-sense wisdom.

So, South Sudan, be consistent and determined in your push for independence. Don’t despair. Instead, focus on how to achieve your aspiration.

God Bless you all. Long Live USSP.

Yours sincerely,

Brian Badi
Deputy Leader, USSP

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