Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Is this the way to Abyei? Part 2

It seems to me some people find the value of an oil barrel higher than the value of a blood barrel. When God says the most sacred thing is the life of a being, politicians answer back that oil is more precious.

We need frying oil to cook our meals, not oil to burn our society. We need soothing oil to heal our wounds, not oil to flare tensions. We need oil that cements societies, not oil that destroys the social fabric.  We should have oil that defends our nation, not the oil which endangers our future.

If oil will not do that for us, we must try alternatives, such as wind, water, solar power to base a cohesive and stable society upon.

I prefer a Sudan without oil, than an “oily” Sudan. Rather than being “oily” and slippery, without a sense of morality, I say that we should be thick skinned, so that our grip on reality is firm.

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