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socio-economic freedom. partners of different Categories who live process with all the wisdom that
As a new nation, we have a long road to in our country all the best! experience can instill in us, especially
travel to prosperity. And we have to make My people of South Sudan, this is my those acquired during this year of Grace.
clear and available a plan to get us to that special prayer for you: The Old Year 2012 has gone. Let the
destiny – by drawing a comprehensive A happy New Year that may bring no dead past bury its own dead.
National Development Plan. tear to any eye, The New Year 2013 which is the
Such a plan must outline the type of When this New Year in time shall end, beginning of another Centenary has
society we should be in 2040, let it be said I’ve played the friend, taken possession of the clock of time. All
where all will have water, electricity, Have lived and loved and laboured here, hail the duties and possibilities
good health, libraries, good schools, And made of it a happy year. Of the coming twelve months! Courage,
roads, good hospitals and clinics, safety We will open the book. Its pages are Stand Up and Walk!
and security, recreational facilities, a blank. Cheers to a New Year and another
growing economy and jobs. We are going to put words on them chance for us to get it right.
But what I know and which is true is ourselves. The book is called Peace, Work I thank you and God bless you all!
Government alone cannot build that
type of society. It will need to work with
people from all walks of life such as
Churches and NGOs to find solutions.
What is at stake is to find means to
manage our expectations as South
Sudanese. First and foremost, we must
build our newborn Nation in the shortest
time possible, where problems can be
anticipated and resolved peacefully
without a tragic outbreak of violence as
it has happened in at least nine states of
the Republic of South Sudan.
In this next Centenary, we must build a
society in which
Women and children feel free and safe,
with no fear of abuse or
any form of violence. It is possible to
achieve that type of society by working
together. and Opportunity and its first chapter is
My dear people of God, thank you for New Year’s Day. PHOTOS Pg 6 & 7: Bishop Barani Eduardo
Hiiboro Kussala the Catholic Bishop of
your support during the Centenary Tombura-Yambio Diocese. [Gurtong | File]
celebrations and prayers while our Bishop The object of a New Year is not that we
Emeritus Joseph Gasi has been unwell. should have a new year. Bishop Barani Eduardo Hiiboro
He remains an important symbol of our It is that we should have a new soul, be Kussala is the Catholic Bishop of
struggle for peace, Freedom, maturity always at war with vices, at peace with Tombura-Yambio Diocese
and also development. your neighbours, and let each New Year
We should continue to keep Bishop Gasi find you a better man.
in prayers. This Centenary Year’s end is neither an
I wish all South Sudanese and our end nor a beginning but an ongoing

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