By. Mak Banguot Gok (Makjohnson),
June 3, 2022 — After Governor Chagor successfully dismantled the man who has been constantly stabbing him at the back, he became a free man and nothing can stop him at this time again from formulating, organizing, and implanting his state strategic developmental plan. As he always wanted, the Governor can now start moving onto the main work of public services delivery such as the planning for State developmental infrastructures and local government facilities. For the first time since he was appointed the governor, Chagor can now feel the real taste of governorship, where you can design a plan and implement it to meet people aspirations.
It was certain that Governor Chagor spent his elapsed period as the Jonglei State Governor on grapple with his former deputy Antipas Nyok Kuch, who played more than enough ‘destructive role against the governor’s intended socio-political development of the State in what was best described by many South Sudanese as the only gross political misconduct of the year followed configuration of Revitalize Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) in the Republic of South Sudan. Here I would like to support my own justifications by only highlighting Antipas Nyok’s basic set of destructive mentality without articulating what in particular the packages of his recklessness. For kind of his actual deeds/events and chronicle breakdown, I would mention it in another writing.
As a distinct person from other deputy governors of the ten States, the former Jonglei State Deputy Governor Nyok’s political opposition to the State Governor Hon. Denay Jock was somewhat disparaged. Nyok’s political sabotage against the Governor was a cancer. And, it has been characterized by an ethnic tension. His political misbehavior was thought-provoked to be the only of its own kind which is most dangerous antinationalistic of the year 2021_2022 over the whole South Sudan. It was indeed insubordination that reached to unbelievable extent and, make him (Nyok) in the history as such a “Demon of Tribalism” whose legacy whence he was the Deputy Governor of Jonglei State only promoted politics split on ethnic divide; played Dinka_Bor community against others ethnic communities inhabited Jonglei and, on the State Governor in particular. Only now he is removed from the deputy that the young Governor is free to exercise the true meaning of his leadership values.
Antipas Nyok on several occasions, he tried in vain to create his own tribal government beside the Jonglei State’s government in attempt of maintaining the power and, too far in extent, he determined to created a Dinka-Bor owned governance structure disdain to enforce law through tribal-based police and court. He has no clear political agenda that could be easily identified as the color of his political misbehavior rather than ethnically politicizing and harping on his own tribal arithmetic in and around the state capital _Bor Town and its surroundings environs. He was politically impregnated with his tribal mentality and viewed his Dinka_Bor being the majority amongst the residents of Jonglei State’s Capital-Mading as an advantage whence a politically attention-required leadership issue between him and the State Governor. By fitting Dinka Bor against other ethnic communities, he thought that would have provided him with an opportunity to gain some control in pushing for a political mileage in any event.
For the time that Antipas Nyok served as deputy governor and, who also doubled the position of an SPLM-IG ‘Chairmanship in the State, he shown that there was nothing in his mind he provided for the benefits of both the State Government and/or his own political party (SPLM) apart from easily resorted in any event to his Dinka-Bor community and violently make use of them as leverage for favors when he bargain in the State government.
That means, the time he spent as the Deputy Government was a nightmare for both the State and his own part and, only could be best remembered as good for a propelled tribal per se. Instead of developed his party political agenda to the level that attracted others to joint, he prompted an ethnic animosities between Dinka-Bor and others ethnic communities such as, the Lou-Nuer, Fangak, Twic, Nyarweang, Chor, and the Anwak versus his Dinka Bor of Jonglei State. Despite that, Hon. Denay Jock Chagor- the young Governor of Jonglei State made a several attempts to slay the dragon of tribalism in Jonglei State, that was almost uneasy to achieve simply because, Antipas Nyok supported by some few of disproportionated numbers of members from his tribe, the remained detrimentally an impediment.
Nevertheless, in case of any blaming for the government of Jonglei State not making enough in term of the public services delivery and/or provision of a sufficient security to the people on the State, he (Nyok) and those few disgruntled politicians of his like-minded are the ones to be blame for many ills in Jonglei State. Noticeably, he was the one who created and developed the corruption, an ethnic clashes, and lack of development initiatives simply because the tribal card that he played behind the scene has been such a barrier that could not allow the State Governor to discover the way out to address many of the prevailing inequalities. It’s because of his own making that the Governor became slow in creating opportunities for all citizens of Jonglei State regardless of their tribal affiliations.
As an obstacle, Antipas Nyok’s tribalized political opposition to the State Governor has been for so long a setback and not permitted by the government of Hon. Denay Jock Chagor embraced a workable framework for the Jonglei State government such as, the development of initiatives directed towards the reinforcements of the young Governor’s prime policy about his State development plan. He (Hon. Denay Jock) has got not enough time for preparation and/of updating fundamentally the State development plan which included the policies in areas related to the Jonglei State’s orderly physical, social, and economic growth. Meanwhile, all the development projects which are intended to reflect the young Governor’s principles of smart development of the State, due to Antipas Nyok’s tribal political sabotages, prevented the young governor from executing his strategic priorities. He (Hon. Jock) had no opportunity for the establishment of the basic required contents of the Jonglei State development plan relevant to the people ‘need, and, (with special emphasis on the formulation of the State’s land use policy, repairs and maintenance of the State’s public transportations systems, established or renovation of the public facilities, housing, exploitation and utilization of the State ‘natural resources, respond to/and mitigation of the natural hazards, establishment of/or renovation of the State Recreation facilities, renovation and establishment of the State cultural and historic resources. Etc.
That is simply true because, since he (Governor Jock) was appointed as the Governor of Jonglei State, he has been wrestled with an internal political firth columns employed by his deputy (Antipas Nyok Kuch) whose objective was to thwart the efficiency and high performance of the State government. In pretext that “People with strong political pretension do not sit pretty to wait for endowment from certain quarters, they fight for their own space,” And, with his tribalized political ambition, he (Nyok) was falling by the wayside in his attempt to meet head-on an emerging young governor who he miserably thought of him (Denay Jock) not powerful as he presumably think of. He (Nyok) mistakenly underestimated Honorable Denay Jock’s being a well-prepared man, and thought of him as someone who has been picked out merely for tribal balance. And, by acting against him, he hoped that his ill_activities would interpret and overshadow him politically and, therefore he (Nyok) looked forward to ascending himself to the position of the governor.!!!!!
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