Monday, May 24, 2010

Making unity attractive

The new elected government in Sudan has taken over, the parliament sworn in and the states getting their acts together. The whole thing one sees these days is the talk of the next phase in the country of making sure the South vote for unity.

The question is: what can the government in Khartoum do in the next six months before the referendum to make unity attractive? In my opinion, it is a little too late . . .

Now let me tell you the laughable things they are trying to do to make unity attractive: there had never been a Southern Sudanese presenter on the main Sudan TV channel for decades until the talk of making unity attractive. Sudan TV these days got a beautiful Southern Sudanese girl to present the weather report, her hair uncovered, wearing trousers and had her crucifix dangling from her neck! Will THAT make unity attractive?

I laughed the other day a commentator was asked what the government should do to make unity attractive. This is what he said: give the people from the south land titles in Northern states and provide for their students a bigger quota and a special consideration for admissions in the universities! Now that is something.

But I say, too late, fellas . . .

3 comments:

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Anonymous said...

Whoever that talks about making unity attractive doesn't know with who he/she dealing with.Todate,our brothers and sisters in Northern
Sudan always have in their heads a mistaken identity about who a Southern Sudanese is as they read
them through few bedbugs feeding ever since on the South-North conflict.It is an insult when you talk on unity being made attractive when infact, our differences are that great ranging from lack of trust to differences in ideology, differences in race to socio-economic.How would some of our fellows in North/Sudan accept the reality that we are Sudanese in Sudan that has to be an African Country but,in friendly relations with other regions worldwide.