I would lastly like to sum up all the Sudan National Project, the Missing Link parts in bullet points so as to level or pave the ground for more constructive dialogue and quiet discussion in order to reach a sort of consensus that helps in putting an end to or breaking the vicious circle of the futile wars that have plagued the country since its independence. It is also an opportunity to open new splendid chapters for durable peace and sustainable development.
I begin by saying:
Sudan National Project is an honest invitation, and genuine call for all of us to reach a consensus,
Sudan National Project is a bottom-up approach where true stakeholders genuinely engage in the processes and steps of its making,
Sudan National Project is not a top-down process where the elites and political spoilers occupy the cockpit whereas the marginalized poor are left in the cold,
Sudan National Project is a mirror that reflects all Sudanese nations’ interests and aspirations,
Sudan National Project is an entry point for durable stability, sustainable peace and sustainable development,
Sudan National Project is an initiative that honestly reflects our true strategic issues and challenges,
Sudan National Project is an initiative where all Sudanese nations sit down on equal basis to coin their shared vision and mission,
Sudan National Project is an initiative that develops the pathway and roadmap that positively responds to the dreams and hopes of the poor, the powerless, the voiceless, the vulnerable, and the marginalized,
Sudan National Project is an initiative that only responds to the national agendas, giving no room for any foreign-related agendas, no room for sectarian agendas, no room for tribal, ethnic, or religious agendas,
Sudan National Project is an approach that fuses the Sudanese nations into one giant nation with one national army, one national vision, one national mission, one national flag, one national anthem, and one national strategic plan,
Sudan National Project is about Sudanism that gives no room to any other identities,
Sudan National Project is re-sudanization of our political parties’ agendas,
Sudan National Project aims at restoring the confidence to the Sudanese nations that yes they can stand again upon their legs and move in spite of the crippling storms,
Sudan National Project is about developing a true National Participatory Strategic Plan that removes the previous historical structural deficiencies and deformations of the top-down Strategic Plans of the Old Sudan,
Sudan National Project is about to walk the talk of the leaders, it is about preaching water and drinking water, not wine, no manipulation, no cheating and no hypocrisy,
Sudan National Project aims at envisioning a bright future to the great nations of this country,
Sudan National Project is about reorienting our political parties, civil societies and private sector toward the basic national pillars and national lighthouse,
Sudan National Project is about leading the great nations of this country to the dreams’ land of New Sudan,
Sudan National Project is about keeping the same distance from all geographical parts of the country when it comes to development issues and interventions with special considerations for the war or conflict-affected and less developed areas,
Sudan National Project is about eradicating poverty, disease, and illiteracy,
Sudan National Project is about empowering women and the youth,
Sudan National Project paves the way for real political, and social reconciliations and societal peace, peaceful coexistence, and tolerance,
Sudan National Project is for maintaining and sustaining Sudanese social fabric and cohesion,
Sudan National Project is about diversity management,
Sudan National Project aims at combating hate speech, and that no faces are strange faces. All faces in Sudan are Sudanese faces,
Sudan National project is about liberating the great nations of Sudan from the shackles of oppression and suppression and the chains of exploitation and marginalization of the centre,
Sudan National Project is about uprooting the historical structural deformations and injustices.
Sudan National Project is about New Sudan that accommodates our diversity. A Sudan where no groups or communities are more equal or more superior or more advantaged than others. A New Sudan where all are equal before the law,
Sudan National Project is about human dignity,
Sudan National Project is about pooling the great nations’ indigenous, academic, and scientific knowledge, efforts, talents, creativities, and capacities, and mainstream them towards making this Sudan a better place and hospitable environment,
Sudan National Project is about helping the great nations’ individuals pull in the same direction,
Sudan National Project is about helping the great nations of this country lead their political leaders and political parties and not to blindly be led by them,
Sudan National Project aims at establishing a foundational value-based bedrock, upon which the great nations of this country can stand upon for their rights,
Sudan National Project aims at erecting and establishing good governance, good governments, good political parties, and good national leadership,
Sudan National Project aims at combating forces of corruption and exploitation that have been rampaging the country and causing havoc,
Sudan National Project is about delivering potable water, quality education, quality health services, food security, sustainable electric power, improved seeds, good roads, good communication system, quality veterinary services, security, and conducive environment for our children to grow,
Sudan National Project aims at rationalizing and restructuring the Military Establishment and helps them go back to their barracks to resume their forgotten noble mission,
Sudan National Project is about giving some good pieces of advice to the Military Establishment that its noble mission, roles and responsibilities are at the battle frontline and not the frontline of the civilians and citizens,
Sudan is a great country, no doubt about that, with great nations, no doubt about that and with abundance in natural resources, no doubt about that too, but unfortunately was plagued with the worst political and military leadership in the world. Leadership that does not want to promote or upgrade itself to the ambitions and aspirations’ level of these great nations. A shallow-minded leadership and politicians that have imprisoned themselves in trivial squabbles and nonsensical skirmishes since the independence of this unfortunate county. These great nations of Sudan deserve to relieve in order to release and unleash their potential. These great nations of Sudan deserve to take some rest from the fatigue of the political chaos of these bad leaders and political parties in order to innovate and participate in the peace and development processes. Such great nations deserve great national leaders and great national political parties to lead them in order to propel them into the level and arena of prosperous and developed nations. Sudan, this great country, neither is in short supply of potential leaders nor is it in short supply of intellectuals and professionals who have the capacities, competencies, and guts to snatch the leadership stick from these political troublemakers and spoilers and take the lead for the structural reformation. Such an opportunity is coming. It is not far away from here; it is just round the corner.
Sudan Structural Reformation begins or starts with a sound Sudan National Project. An idiom says, ‘a cat who dreams of becoming a lion must first stop chasing mice.’ Our leaders need to stop chasing mice. They need to stop chasing their personal interests, they need to stop chasing their tribal and ethnic interests, they need to stop chasing their sectarian interests, they need to stop chasing the shallow interests of their political parties, they need to stop chasing their religiously-motivated interests of their religious sects, they need to stop their trivial squabbles and skirmishes if they really want to be good politicians and good leaders to lead these unique great nations of this country.
I conclude this article by saying that rolling up our sleeves for work is becoming an Imperative. Tightening our belts has become a Must. Flexing our muscles for work is becoming a Necessity. Developing a robust Sudan National Project is becoming the sole entry point and prerequisite if we really mean to remain a great-united country and great nations of this country.
No glory for gun, yes glory for peace
Stay well,
Mahjoub
Kampala, Uganda
