{"id":9380,"date":"2022-09-23T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=9380"},"modified":"2022-09-22T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T20:07:44","slug":"activist-blasts-politicians-instigating-inter-communal-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/activist-blasts-politicians-instigating-inter-communal-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist blasts politicians instigating inter-communal violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Mary Poni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Executive Director of Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), Edmund Yakana blames South Sudanese politicians for fueling people in to communal violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edmund said South Sudan will never be in peace if the people of this nation don\u2019t own it in their hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stressed that there will never be a real peace if the politicians don\u2019t change their political attitudes from the past and pay the United Nations (UN) from the destiny that people need to reach where violence is not the option for resolving people\u2019s differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are here to celebrate peace yet we are yearning for peace,\u201d he cited, adding \u201cthe government should allow our sons and daughters in uniforms to do their work without any political influence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the United Nations general assembly meeting and the UN general secretary recently pledged to support the political transition in the Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The activist stated that the pledge will be real if the leaders can show political commitments. He cited that \u201cin stirring the political commitments, it demonstrates to us that we can believe on the pending task of the revitalized agreement before the end of the transitional period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yakani urged all the leaderships of the government of South Sudan at their honest capacities as political leaders hailing from various political parties that signed the revitalized peace agreement that a support is provided to the leadership of the unified forces to strongly deliver the pending task of the security arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCan we ensure that the laws passed and pending in the parliament can\u2019t be passed for implementation?\u201d he asked, urging that before the members of parliament go for research, the pending laws should be passed so that the technics remains for our citizens at their various constituencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have seen the inter-communal violence happening and I would like to take this task to blame nobody for instigating people into communal violence but rather the political leaders with their political different colors,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CEPO\u2019s executive director stated that for political interest, some of the politicians are influencing the citizens with communal violence in order to use communal violence as a ladder to climb political seat or in order to use communal violence to make an excuse for the change of combat leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you are there as a politician and you are using communal violence for your political games, therefore, as South Sudanese, I will take a full responsibility to ask God since we are in the rainy season to thunder your spirits and clear you from our society so that we live in peace and bring back the South Sudan we stood for in 1983,\u201d the activist reiterated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yakani said they cannot be described neither by tribe nor political parties but rather to be described as one nationalist standing for the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost of the leaders in the country were part of the war and when they were shooting the bullets, which bullet knows which tribe? He questioned. Adding many people struggled to raise the flag of this nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI urge you all that the moment has come for us to change our spirits and tolerate political talents and never ever use violence as an option to resolve your political grievances,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mary Poni The Executive Director of Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), Edmund Yakana blames South Sudanese politicians for fueling people in to communal violence. Edmund said South Sudan will never be in peace if the people of this nation don\u2019t own it in their hearts. He stressed that[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9381,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9380\/revisions\/9381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}