Writer: Ayuel Mangok Angui
When a person is confused, he or she can ask a question in order to get full information from the people about what is happening around in a certain environment of being. Many things have been happening in South Sudan, and we have been keeping quiet about responding as citizens of the country.
As human beings, we live on the sweat of our labour, and we have a right to be rewarded by our employers after we have toiled in order for us to eat.
According to the labour law, it is a must for each and every employer to pay monthly salaries to his or her employees by the end of every month in order to help them cater for their basic needs.
Even though the labour law requires each employer to comply with the regulation of the labour, the government of South Sudan, as a public employer, has failed to comply, as it is required to be implemented by the employer of any institution of employment.
The civil servants working with the government of South Sudan remain unpaid for quite a long time and have nowhere to petition about the delay or irregularity in monthly salary payment.
The cause of failure for the government to pay monthly salaries to the government employees is not known; it is either an economical or political factor.
According to my assumption, the government of South Sudan is not paying the civil servants because the money meant for paying the civil servants has been spent on corrupt activities and funding of governmental projects, which are not benefiting the nation.
The question that I have asked about who has taken my, your, or our monthly salaries is not a silly question to ask of the government, because South Sudan is an independent nation, and the citizens have a right to ask any question of the authority of the country to be satisfied about the cause of a certain problem that is against the constitution and the nation as a whole.
The government of South Sudan has been misbehaving against the citizens and violating the law of the country since the founding of the Republic of South Sudan in 2011.
The cause of choosing silence as a means of handling challenges affecting the nation is because the citizens have been obsessed with the misinformation, where the government has lied to them that it has no tear gas to suppress the civilians’ uprising within and outside Juba City but will use live bullets against civilians, who are going to protest against the government in any state of South Sudan.
Therefore, the government has achieved its mission of intimidating citizens, and it has become an advantage to the government to use this opportunity as a time to exploit its civil servants and nowhere to call for help.
As a matter of truth for the sake of the nation, I am writing to inform the government of South Sudan that honesty and accountability are very important in handling the administration of the country.
The mismanagement of public resources that are supposed to be invested in paying the monthly salaries of civil servants is a great crime committed by the government against its civil servants and is punishable according to international law.
I hereby kindly request the government of South Sudan to adopt the policy of monthly payment of civil servants’ salaries. Any failure by the government to do so will be considered, next time, a violation of labour law and slavery of civil servants.
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