
13/09/2022
Hon. Puot Kang ‘Wedding Ceremony is best describe as "Act of a Pleasure without Conscience” and, “a Petro-Driven”!
By: Mak Banguot Gok (Makjohnson)
(Part One)
According to Dr. Stephen R. Covey ‘sociopolitical theory, there are seven deadly sins associated to individual socio-political actor 'behavioural conduct. The renowned social scientist categorized as dangerous (for example, the Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Business without morality (ethics), Science without humanity, Religious without sacrifices, and Politics without principles. South Sudanese politicians of today are best describes as classical examples of these adage.
Regarding "politics without principle", Gandhi said “having politics without truth(s) to justly dictate the action creates chaos, which ultimately leads to violence”. Gandhi called these missteps "passive violence", ‘which fuels the active violence of crime, rebellion, and war.’ He said, "We could work 'til doomsday to achieve peace and would get nowhere as long as we ignore passive violence in our system. And, the topic of this article all about the recent scandalous wedding ceremony of Hon. Puot Kang Chuol-the current Minister of Petroleum in Juba. What South Sudanese have seen in these couple of days apropos Hon. Puot Kang Chuol’s Wedding Ceremony in Juba was somewhat strong suit of “the Pleasure without Conscience” by a political actor like him who plays “Politics without Principles.”
Whence South Sudan today badly affected, the main priorities of the so-called government of the Revitalize Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan 2018 is not to financing extravagance marriage ceremonies of the unmarried government ministers, but to address the underlying causes of the conflict and to stabilize the economy. Going forward, strengthening service delivery institutions, governance, and economic and public financial management systems are critical as the country seeks to build resilience to future shocks, providing building blocks for a diversified, inclusive, and sustainable growth path.
Some may labels how Honorable Minister of Petroleum shown off his corrupt wealth by giving it a names. But, in the cheapest justification, it's a “chief query of the immature, greedy, selfish, and sensuous ever done by the corrupt official in the RTGoNU. Morally and legally, the minister's costs and magnitude exposed the minister's corrupt ethos. When every government minister tried to skim extra off the top using public value and money for personal gratification, it is obvious that, an ordinary South Sudanese who are the public taxpayers end up suffering the most.
Meanwhile, whence the Petroleum minister afforded to pays hundreds of Thousands dollars for his own wedding ceremony that lasted for nearly two weeks, there are millions South Sudanese who never afford to access a clean drinking water due to the country’s economics relapsed. Every day, the ordinary South Sudanese citizens face countless experience of corruption when accessing essential services in hospitals, schools, police departments, and even in the government ‘offices. All these are attributed to the R-TGoNU ‘failure to carrying out any roles effectively.
The primary source of the failure identified to be the government ‘economics institution (revenues collecting agencies) that are unable to utilize the oil money for example. We can says that, 90% of the state economy relied on petroleum. The economic collapse and failure of the others sectors of the government are caused by the like of the current petroleum minister *Hon. Puot Kang) who is incapable whilst occupied this important economics cluster institution.
Therefore, it is undeniable fact that, over 90% of the R-TGoNU ‘inability to operates and serves the people of South Sudan due to the funding constraint are attributed to the Ministry of Petroleum.
Hon. Minister is the primary responsible for the economics scrupling and that let the country, however, to faces the risk of these gains being reversed, with increasing incidents of subnational violence, flooding and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating an already dire situation. And, according to the estimate by humanitarians’ agencies, South Sudan remains in a serious humanitarian crisis. Some two-thirds of South Sudan's population, 8.9 million people, are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2022, an increase of 600,000 since 2021. Extreme levels of acute food insecurity persist across the country and an estimated 8.3 million people, including refugees, are expected to experience severe food insecurity in the coming lean season. Almost 4 million people remain displaced by the humanitarian crisis, with nearly 1.6 million people displaced internally and some 2.3 million refugees in six neighboring countries. Women and children continue to be the most affected. The increase in needs is largely driven by the rising food insecurity, the triple shock of sub-national violence, a second consecutive year of major flooding, and the impacts of COVID-19, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis.
Living conditions continue to be impacted by violence, displacement, and climate shocks. At the same time, public expenditures on key social sectors including health, education, water and sanitation, and agriculture and rural development are limited or none existed. Among the most affected population groups, internally displaced populations experience significant service delivery gaps which impacts their quality of life.
A significant proportion of IDPs do not have adequate access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure and healthcare services, with a high level of food insecurity. While access to healthcare services is high across IDP sites, the limited availability of medicines and discrimination have been cited as significant constraints on healthcare service delivery among the IDP population. At the same time, food security indicators show that large proportions of these populations experience inadequate food consumption.
While it would be somehow easier for few South Sudanese citizens to point a finger at the married government minsters and high ranking officials as the corrupt culprits in this case, because of their huge families ‘maintenance, the recent picture of Hon. Puot Kang’s wedding ceremony cost shown that, those married ones are just a small cogs in a large wheel of corruption. The unmarried government ministers are the most dangerous corrupts. Although it can be difficult to quantify wastage at Hon. Puot Kang ‘wedding ceremony in terms of volume and extravagance is very huge. Others might argues that, “the quantum of food wastage depends on the socio-economic characteristics of individuals in connection with their cultural practices.” This squabble makes senses in theory as that, “Households with higher income waste more than those with lower income.” However, the case of Hon. Minister of Petroleum is unique because he (Hon. Puot Kang) has nothing of his own apart from the public money on petroleum.
And, this is an evident provided opportunities for the South Sudanese concerns citizens to pay attention at the corrupt elites as to how they are very proud to showcase their corrupt wealth and status. And, many people in Juba who have been follow up that wastages event, there are sufficient justifications to criticize the minister (Hon. Puot Kang) ‘wedding ceremony and best describe it as “scandalous wedding” of the year due to its expenditure and extravagance. It was serious spark of corruption and horrendous political scandal committed by R-TGoNU ‘minister/politician who served only his own pleasures without conscience or sense of responsibility. It's dangerous to be pulled or lulled away from natural law without conscience. Conscience is essentially the repository of timeless truths and principles - the internal monitor of natural law.
The SPLM-IO of Juba-base have abandoned and/or utterly neglected the cause and the fighters who fought vigorously and brought IO to its partial recognition by Juba ‘SPLM-IG in power sharing. The event cost hundreds of thousands dollars extracted from Oil money for personal gratification. The ultimate costs of pleasures without conscience are high as measured in terms of time and money, in terms of reputation and in terms of wounding the hearts and minds of other people who are adversely affected by those who just want to indulge and gratify themselves in the short term.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!