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| Job-seeking Youth Meet To Demand Jobs (United States) (68.33.3.129) |
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JOB-SEEKING YOUTH
MEET TO DEMAND JOBS
By Gerry G. & L. Anthony
JUBA (30 March) - About 142 Southern Sudanese youth returnees from East and South Africa and others from Khartoum last Saturday gathered for a meeting at Toto Chan Hall, demanding the Government of Southern Sudan and Non- Governmental Organizations to give them jobs.
The returnees fled the country during the 21years civil war between the SPLA and the Khartoum Government where they acquired qualifications in different fields as university graduates and secondary school leavers. Now that peace has come, they decided to come back home to participate in the reconstruction and building of the country.
Some of them say they have been on the streets for over a year now without getting any job simply due to what they termed as “technical know-who” practiced by government and some NGO employers instead of “technical know-how” which they possess. According to Becu David, a 24 year-old Diploma holder, the government seem to entertain old staff as he was once told, “You are too young to work in an office.
You still need to be taken care of by your mother.” Another serious challenge they meet in job seeking is the issue of experience as a major requirement for any advert. “An applicant must have at least five years experience, ten years experience, etc. as if there is a school for experience,” Michael Sungu expressed. “Tribalism, nepotism, favoritism and sectarianism is being practiced by employers in Juba. We want a change. They should consider us because we are not here by mistake, this is our country,” job seeker Susan Kaku adds.
Protest for work
The job seekers are threatening to demonstrate soon if the government does not look into their grievances, “We will soon make a serious demonstration because there are old men who want to die in the government offices instead giving youth a chance,” says one of the seekers who prefers anonymity.
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Dear Gurtongers,
Their concerns are legitimate. The notion that suggest young people are too young to lead, handle administrative or office responsibilities are bias. After all, it is the young people that nations rely on at any given time, including wars'. Histories of South Sudan's struggle attest to that. Moreover, nobody is born with experience. Experience is acquired through learning and time. Experiences differ and one must not think his experience is far significant if he or she does not value that of others. It is through diverse attained experiences that people progress, enhance their living standards and build nations etc…
It must also be clear that only in backward societies youths' skills are deemed insignificant. But who will build the nation? Are we not asking our people to go back home and participate in the process of PeaceBuilding, construction and development of our war-ravaged land? What skills are we looking for if we fail to utilize what we already have?
The war is not over yet…we need to keep our youths engaged at close-ranges because when war breaks out, it will likely be non other than these "trivial" youths to confront the enemy and shoulder most of the wars burdens like many did including the elders of today who were once young people of their own rights but not necessarily blocked from acquiring jobs or participating in the peoples' struggle.
There are many ways to maintain the youth's dynamics and keep them proactive and productive. Let them be given chance to be effective agents of change which will not happen without their partaking.
Their effectiveness and powers must not be underestimated. They are the backbone of our nation.
I hope our Government will consider their grievances.
Angelos Agok. |
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| Re: (Oman) (62.231.244.77) |
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Dear Angelos
I couldn't agree more. Your comments are in place. We hear over and over again the calls from the GOSS and various southern authorities asking those in the Diaspora to return home and help in the (re)contruction work, and when we also hear that many of the youth back home are not employed, one wonders how genuine these calls to Diasporans are. Fair enough we do not expect the GOSS to employ every graduate or youth, but it can do a number of things to mitigate the situation.
One, it can pass some labour laws that will make sure that comapnies operating in South Sudan should employ southern youth and graduates. In some countires, like the one I live in, every unemployed graduate is registered with the Ministry of Labour. When any company applies for a work permit to employ a foreigner/expatriate, the Ministry of Labour checks its database to make sure that there is no national who can do the job being given to the foreigner. If there is a national, the company must justify why it cannot employ him/her instead, or even train him/her if experience is lacking.
Two, GOSS can demand that any company applying for tenders to provide information on its labourforce composition. Those that have substantial number of nationals (and not semi-skills only) be given preference. This has worked very well in my current country of residence.
Three, GOSS can employ many of these youths to do some odd jobs in the meantime while they wait for the jobs related to their careers. I recall during the early days when Juba University was still starting, with no students, we were employed as teaching assistants. Although there were no students yet, we were given assignments to keep us occupied. There are so many areas where these youths can be gainfully utilized while they wait for their career jobs.
There are so many innovative ways we can create to use our youths and graduates in the meantime while the employment situation is getting better. And what are the oil companies doing? There are so many jobs in these companies both up and downstream which can absorb all our youths who are now in the streets. We can also use them temporarily for teaching untill we have enough teachers for our schools.
I hope that GOSS is brainstorming its mind to do something about these young men and women.
Charles B. |
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| Re: (United Kingdom) (86.22.124.244) |
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Give Caeser what is Caesers and to God what is God.
Gabriel Bul Kuany
The bible states the above sentence and to me all that is written in the Bible was not done by God, It is an invention by the ordinary Human beings. They were jotted down as examples on how mankind can leads its life to the satisfaction and so are we all crown into it.
It is not a secret that we do not abide by everything that is in the environment, be it constitution and to make the matters worse not even people’s Cvs.
What I am trying to put across is that our dear SPLM government has forgotten their own youth (jesh el amer). Honestly we have all suffered and our pillars do know that, we have all had days and nights with empty stomach and finally ninety percent of Southern Sudanese families have lost their young ones as child-soldiers.
In government offices we have many employees who are nakedly illiterate and not all the positions in ministries, commissions are political positions. Such areas like directorates can be helpful to the minister, commissioner when he/she fits in most of the learned young men who have almost create their own pedestrians tarmac road on Juba streets with limping sideways with their executive brief cases full of valid documents and are being denied the chance of proving what they have acquired while in the Diaspora.
Give Youth what belongs to them and to your comrades what is theirs as CPA and Interim constitutions stipulates some percentages to poor youth whom their elders nearly think of stopping them from being mature enough to inherit their seats since the only tiny portion of the body structure known as stomach have almost made them loose their numerable senses.
Be careful the democracy is on your door steps and if you need to lengthen your terms in politics then let them be your friends (youth) and you will be preached like gospels within a twinkle of a minute.
They say use money to make money and the vice versa, let the youth campaign for you and fully empower them to interpreter the CPA contents.
Use simple physics of making work easier by employing youth with enough experience and be in your high seats taking your black coffee comfortably while your work is being done.
Say no! To Chinua Achebe’s saying that it is the government of whom you know but not what you know if at all we wants to lead a life that will benefit others like the late Dr. John De Mabior died for our benefits not his personal war.
Yours Gabriel Bul Kuany
bulbulax@yahoo.com
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