South Sudan presidential affairs minister urges forgiveness in Christmas message

JUBA – South Sudan’s minister of presidential affairs, Bangasi Joseph Bakasoro, on Wednesday called on South Sudanese to forgive each other and reconcile during this Christmas festivals.

Bakasoro made this call in an audio voice message shared with Sudans Post on Wednesday.

“Let us join hands to celebrate this Christmas with joy and happiness. Let us forget and forgive those who did bad to us, it will not take us anyway,” Bakasoro said in his Christmas message.

Bakasoro called for unity and forgiveness among the citizens.

“In this Christmas, it is my happiness, and it is my wish that all corners of South Sudan will be peaceful. All corners of South Sudan should be happy, and all corners of South Sudan should forgive each other,” he said.

The senior government official also appealed to citizens to celebrate this Christmas with joy and happiness and reconciliation.

“Let us celebrate this day with joy and happiness and reconciliation. I am aware of diversity of the country,” he said.

“I am aware of differences among ethnic groups in South Sudan, but division will never take us forward,” he added.

The Presidential envoy urged South Sudanese to learn from experience of Rwanda.

“We need unity for a purpose; we need love among ourselves and let us learn from Rwanda experience. People fought, people killed themselves, people hate each other but at the end of the day, today Rwandans are unity, it is the same for South Sudan,” he said.

“We hate each other, we fought, we killed each other and there are good people who are living well and there are those who can’t live well.

“We have the rich and we have the poor and we have the middle class but all of us are South Sudanese,” he added.

He stressed the need for the citizens to open a new page saying South Sudan is bigger individual.

“If you killed my brother, I will hate you but my brother will never come again. If you killed my father, my sister, my mother, and you continue hating me, those people are not coming back,” he said.

“Why don’t we open a new page and say South Sudan is our country. South Sudan is bigger than our hatred,” he concluded.