Sudan’s Kiir Picks Up Unity Mantle

Sunday 4, 2006

The Sudan’s First Vice President Saliva Kiir Mayardit continentally togged up on Monday 30, 2006, in a white, wide and radiating African clothing and fashion. In central Khartoum, the First Vice President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, appeared like an angel dove, symbol of peace in the main Sudan’s religious city. Energetically suited in a West African traditional costuming clothing and fashion, conventionally from the Hausa people of northern Nigeria, northern Cameroun and the southern part of Niger republic, he addressed Khartoum rally, consisting of northerners and southerners and supporters of the SPLM. The First Vice President and the President of Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS), reminded and told his much avid supporters of the two new governments to honour the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA.) The First Vice President addressed the Khartoum rally: his theme to the Khartoumers and the rally focuses on the three fundamental elements: maintaining genuine peace in the country to carry on fast development in the regions affected by the longest civil war, maintaining tight security in the country to keep sustainable stability in the region beginning tasting the new found peace and maintaining unity in the country to increase strength among the two main national ruling parties: the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudanese People Liberation Movement (SPLM.)

Cautiously thronging in and forming up a huge city’s crowd, the one time bitter enemies for more than two decades in the country, harmoniously showed mutual respect for each other for the first time, since the Peace Agreement was signed in January 2005. Kiir addressed his new dynamic and cautious supporters gathered in Khartoum, mainly from the three regions: northern, western, southern and the eastern part of the country, which have been famously known as the war-torn areas, with exception of northern governmental based region. Vice President Kiir lively addressed the Khartoum crowd: his address to the crowd paraded in Khartoum gestured the significant hope, which might mean that political system of government and behaviour of the northerners, who once time detested southern leaders playing a public role in the Khartoum government, may be and just may be showing a new transformation, which would lead to a hopeful direction in the near future, especially if those peaceful, political rallies, such as the one he addressed in Khartoum, continue throughout the country.

Fast development for the country needs fast responsibility. It needs a genuine commitment, peaceful rally and tranquil assembly across the country, which, of course, First Vice President Kiir is responsibly conveying to the people of the Sudan to fully embrace it with highest accountability and honesty. To Develop southern, eastern, western and the new northern region of today for the new changing Sudan needs a meaningful peace and responsibility in the hearts and minds of the Sudanese people. Accountability of citizens in the country is a powerful mechanism to let the fast development happens in the devastated nation. Vice President Kirr, addressing the Khartoum rally, residents of the city and natives of the nation, mutually sitting together side by side, and happily having fantastic time together, is the sign of starting new hope in the Sudan’s political era, after countless distrusts of one another as multiethnic citizens for decades. Development and unity is due coming; especially, if Kiir is being given such an historic opportunity to energetically continue to enlighten many Sudanese people through those peaceful rallies across the Sudan’s cities about his fresh vision of the nation. He is an intrepid leader with a brave heart and mind; he can bring back, by all means, aspirations and needs of citizens if there is a collective responsibility rallying behind him.