Fellow countrymen and women,
Introduction:
Our moral conscience to unknown figure of the SPLM/A martyrs dictates us to critically analyse the political document written and presented by Mr Bona Malwal to the symposium organised by `South Sudan Democratic Forum` on 12 December2007. The synthesis of the document is so clumsy and non-methodological, however, politically disturbing. For this reason, we coordinated to analyse it and to present our political antithesis. Our analysis is long and we kindly ask the concerned people to the fate of our political destiny to give their time in reading it for historical records
First, aware of indignity and political damage his paper incurs on him, Mr Bona began his introduction that most Southerners would “certainly be disappointed”. Yes, we are badly disappointed and belligerent, because, the paper is unbalanced and therefore, unjust. We thought that Mr Bona was a Presidential Advisor that advises President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to implement the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, CPA. On the contrary, Bona options to advise him to obstruct the implementation as:
1. Presidency and Bashings.
Bona advises Al-Bashir to interfere into the political powers of the First Vice President of Sudan and Chairman of the SPLM by claiming that “Annex 2B, of the CPA, stipulates that the appointment of any constitutional position holder in the GONU, including ministers and ministers of the state, can only be made after consultation with the presidency”. He concludes by stating “This should mean, in plain language, that the president of the Republic has a say in who the SPLM wants to appoint into a constitutional position”.
Reference to the CPA, we find this legal advice from the Presidential Advisor to the President as seriously misleading. First, Mr Bona fails to define for us the semantics of the presidency. For him, it does mean President of the Republic of Sudan. Under `Power Sharing` Article 2.3.2 defines “the Presidency consisting of the President and two Vice Presidents”. And above all, Article 2.3.6 binds the President of Sudan not to take definitive decisions without “the consent of the First Vice President”. Article 2.3.6.3 in regards to the appointments to constitutional positions dictates the President to appoint in consent of the First Vice President in “according to the Peace Agreement”.
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