By Mac Madol Agorok

March 5, 2011,( Virginia, USA) Ask never-been-to school elderly and silver-haired villager in South Sudan just what government means in the light of present corruption, which immerses embryonic state in fog and haze of confusion. The most quoted an unnamed old man's incompetent definition of government may never fail to astonish you. Here it goes in Dinka, "Akuma akoc ci root juir bi kak ke koc kok ya cam." Converted into English, government is a group of people who organized themselves to build their happiness at others' expenses, or a vast collection of families acting together for mutual benefits.

 

 This untested assumption almost breaks down anyone who pity corrupt and avaricious practices in this part of the world. Why this guy comes up with new definition of political system? Perhaps life experience serves the best teacher to him. Classical definition in dictionary, government the system by which a nation, state,or community is governed. Its function to assist people in need. It won't make an iota of difference though. The old age will still remain adamance to his theory about government unless leaders transform lip services into action.

 Peeping through a general situation during my overdue visit to the soon-to-be country South Sudan. I wholeheartedly agree, different eyes see different things when looking at the same corruption vitiates public institutions in the South. One must elaborate three categories corruption occurs: there are those who make corruption, those who deny it, and those who fight against it. These three categories try to outdo each other in the field at one or another point.

 But what was interesting to me, is how corruption passes from fathers to sons at local, state and federal levels. Particularly, those CEO sons who borrow public funds and spent, and borrow and spent, to embellish their personal development. The gentlemen of the Sudan People Liberation Movement should value their revolutionary credentials, and  put the breaks on suchlike acts, knowing it tampers with fundamental interest of 98.83% voters who have made an informed choice for independent future of the South. It also should be borne in mind as Edmund Burke great thinker assures that the rights of people in government are their benefits.

In the final analysis, Law enforcement is a good technique for eradicating corruption in South Sudan specially for few leaders concentrate power and public wealth in their hands. Corruption is an invasion of ability.