06/10/2025
Dear Deng Bol Aruai Bol
After reading many of your posts, I have gotten a picture of what you want. To be clear first, I am not a politician but what I have learned over a decade and from around the world is that every new nation after independence normally goes through political turmoil in the first few decades before peace and development crop in.
I am from Bor County and quite disappointed at your approach to the need for change. Again, I dont work for government if you may ask yourself later because I supposed that is what your instinct will first tell you. At first I thought you are a civic voice of change, a politician who demands government to be better, wants to do better whether in the current government or in new government of your own political interests but after taking time to understand your views, I have realized they are demanding division and about upper Nile region only.
There are many loopholes in your political rhetoric and ambitions that anyone with basic general knowledge can challenge even if they are not interested in politic. First you are talking only about Upper Nile yet the whole country is suffering the way i see it not just Upper Nile. The only people who don't know suffering perhaps are top politicians, few business people and family of president Kiir. The rest of us whether from Bar el ghazel, equatoria or upper Nile, we are all suffering, trying to make ends meet. Eg all the military doesn't get salary, all civil servants don't get salary not just citizens from Upper Nile. It was until recently, the Equatorians were rumoured to be wanting a new country for themselves. The only reason you saw Dr. John Garang, your fellow son from Twic East, being successful in getting us the country was because his approach was to unite Sudan under new political ideologies and united approach as one country though he didn't succeed but I respected him for that intelligence.
Secondly, I dont know if you're aware of African agenda 2063, which is towards a united Africa. Now you are one of those looking for separation, total misdirection or a reflection of not being learnt enough or maybe you are looking for a political voice and not necessarily change.
Thirdly, what is your guarantee that the upper Nile region will not disintegrate again after gaining self governance eg dinka Bor wanting their own self governance away from Nuer or whatever form it takes. Clearly whoever will be president of Upper Nile will either be from Dinka Bor, Nuer or other minority group in Upper Nile. Won't they mistreat others just like the Bar el Ghazel region is apparently mistreating only Upper Nile region now as you make it appear. The issue is the leadership and has nothing to do with borders. The only problem with some of you politicians is that you want a situation where you are in control, so that you become the head and no one challenges you. You want to be maybe head of Upper Nile region or even president that is why you want the region. The politic of Juba is too big for you, there are many political underdogs in Juba that ain't giving you chance, etc. Please get a better approach, do something more meaningful, start an NGO, civil society entity, business to support people from Upper Nile, educational program so that people from "Upper Nile" become educated and not susceptible to manipulation by politicians fueling their own personal agendas. A journalistic approach is better than your approach sir unless I misunderstood you.
You are not in political position of power now but you're a public voice that has a following, and it is important not to misguide that following but rather to think beyond your immediate self ambitions. I believe you can take the approach that will bring you to Juba, puts you in position of power to make tangible change.
BTW, I want to make it clear, I really don't like the things the government is doing and not doing. Most is not good and we citizens want it to do better but South Sudan being separated can't be among them. This is my reasoning and a challenge for dr. Deng Bol.
David G*i
