Good morning ladies and gentlemen!
My name is Pierrette,
I am 9 years old and I am from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I am 9 years old and I am from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I am reading this message on behalf of Mr Pacifique Sukisa-Makasi, the President of the Revolution Congolaise or RC in short.
Mr Pacifique Sukisa-Makasi wrote:
Beloved compatriots and distinguished guests,
I am happy to be with you today!
Allow me please, to start by thanking everyone present in this room because without your presence here this event could not be called an event at all.
Many thanks to CIVICUS - World
Alliance for Citizen Participation, the World Movement for Democracy, ARTICLE
19, the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law and the government of
Sweden who made this event possible and for their vital commitment to the
promotion of a viable civic space, democracy, human rights and good governance
across the globe.
Many thanks to my compatriots and
other Global citizens committed to the building of a peaceful, stable and
prosperous DRC.
I, on behalf of the RC, deeply
thank those who initiated and those who signed for the "Framework of
hope". I mean, the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the region.
My name is Pacifique and means
“tending to make or preserve peace”.
My surname is Sukisa-Makasi and can translate into English as Victorious.
My surname is Sukisa-Makasi and can translate into English as Victorious.
I was born in a small village called Cagala in the eastern South-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I am a farming-lover villager pushed to a peaceful revolution.
My peaceful revolution's VISION
is: a PEACEFUL, STABLE and PROSPEROUS DRC with future good governance;
attractive economic management and a viable environment to the private sector,
based on democracy, the universal declaration of human rights and other
universal principles.
Yes, I have been trained by many
formal and informal institutions and in various fields but, I have failed to
acquire the academic qualifications I wished for.
All I have is an
agricultural/veterinary diploma but I believe that I also special social,
economic and political degrees from the University of life and the school
of hard knocks.
I am, on today's Global Day of Citizen Action and on behalf of the Revolution Congolaise, your host.
The aim of this event is mainly
to support CIVICUS and partners across the Globe's campaign for a viable civic
space, Democracy and good governance across the Globe.
The second aim of this event is
to kick-start the RC's second project that is:
"An educational campaign for
a Needed New Beginning in DRC and that requires us to put our differences aside
and focus on building a NATION out of our divided societies through the
understanding that a Peaceful, Stable and Prosperous DRC are a responsibility
of every DRC citizen (leaders and ordinary people)."
As most of you know, there is a
worrying crackdown on pro-democracy activists that is currently taking place in
the DRC.
That is why, the Revolution
Congolaise team has refused to sit - paralysed - simply watching and
looking for someone to blame and hoping for the solutions to the DRC's social,
political and economic problems to fall from the sky.
That's why, sooner after the flawed 2011 presidential elections, I, on behalf of the RC initiated the national and inclusive dialogue that has been gaining momentum in the DRC politics. Even though this national and inclusive dialogue that we initiated in the year January 2012 and that we have been advocating and lobbying for since that year seems to have already been hijacked by the very politicians we want to retire from our country's leadership, the RC believes to have successfully completed its first project:
"To Advocating for Africa’s sub regions, the African Union and the broader International community to assist the Congolese people to challenge the current political system, through an all-inclusive dialogue involving political actors, Grassroots/civic organizations and the Congolese diaspora. This dialogue must address the 2011 post-election problems and defining factors of the overdue deadlock in the DRC, as well as governance, social justice and cohesion to encourage political maturity and must address the post President Joseph Kabila’s current term".
Our advice to the International
Community is:
We highly appreciate your good
will and commitment to try and make our beloved country a better place.
However, because of its sovereignty and being an unaligned country, we advise
you to take a risk to try us as your new DRC partners and my promise to you is
that we will positively surprise you.
We are the DRC potential reliable
partners that you have been looking for.
Until Mr. Nelson Mandela was
given a chance to put in practice his personal views, few people in his own
country or in the World, expected from him the statesman and humanitarian who
has become an inspiration to many across the Globe.
Yes, we have never been in
government before, meaning that we have no governance skills but like Mahatma
Gandhi, "I have a belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the
capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning"
That it is why one of our main
objectives is to position our country on the Global arena so our beloved county
can become part of the free world, a world family that we believe that, through an
effective collaboration holds the master key to our country's social, economic and
political improvement.
To my compatriots.
Wherever they
currently are on planet earth, I need you to understand that:
Our enemy is not that individual
we do not share a tribe, or a province, or a language, or an opinion or a
political party, or a religion or social class but poverty, unemployment, lack
of access to basic needs such as clean drinking water, health care electricity,
quantity and quality food, clean air. Our main enemies are: diversity
intolerance, bad governance based on selfish ambitions and the finger on the
trigger, poor management of our country's natural resource, poor environment
for the private sector, weak and unethical state institutions such as the IEC,
the Supreme Court, army, police and national security agencies.
Therefore, there is an urgent
need for a new beginning in our country.
However, this new beginning
requires us to set aside our differences and focus on building a nation out of
our divided societies.
We are economically and
militarily powerless against a heavily militarized and cruel systems but through us, the people of DRC are soon to be victorious because:
1. We are not at war with
individuals like many DRC opposition parties' leaders. One of our missions is
to light up the candle able to pave a way to a new beginning toward a truly
peaceful, stable and prosperous DRC that shall not only benefit its citizens
but that shall also benefit the sub-regions that it belongs to, Africa and our
interdependent world at large.
2. Like Dr. Martin Luther King,
I believe that “right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil
triumphant."
3. Like Nelson Mandela: "I have
cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live
together in harmony and with equal opportunities".
4. Like President Abraham Lincoln, I
believe in the: "government of the people, by the people, for the
people...”
5. Like President Obama, I believe
that: “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
6. Like President Clinton, I believe
that: “We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter,
but our common humanity matters more.”
7. Like Archbishop Desmond Tutu on
behalf of the Elders, I believe that: “the ones who ought to be held in high
regard are not the ones who are militarily powerful, nor even economically
prosperous. They are the ones who have a commitment to try and make the world a
better place.”
8. Like Elder Kofi Annan, I
believe that: “... For generations, women have served as
peace educators, both in their families and in their societies."
And most importantly,
I am
convinced that with God a mess can be turned into a message, a trial into a
testimony, a victim into a victory and that God's power is made perfect in
weakens.
Remember:
Joshua's ragtag
Israelites army against a well-trained Canaanite army,
Joseph was betrayed for his pride
by his brothers and was put in prison,
Moses was corned on the banks of
the red sea with the powerful army in the world,
Gideon was three hundred against
three hundred thousand,
David against a blood thirsty
giant,
Esther was a woman trying to gain
a world with a pride of a king,
Daniel room met was a lion,
Daniel friends were thrown in an
oven,
Jonah accepted his job and got
stuck in a whale,
Peter was a coward,
Paul was imprisoned,
The five thousand people had no
food,
Lazarus was dead,
Timothy was too young,
Abraham was too old,
The younger son was too stupid,
The wall of Jericho was too
strong
And
Jesus was humiliated, hung on the cross and a buried in a tomb.
Seemingly, the message from the Bible is that when everything else has failed, get ready because that is where God shows up because:
Joseph became second in command,
The red sea departed,
Gideon won without lifting a
weapon,
Goliath's head was on a plate,
Easter spoke and the king
listened,
Daniel tamed the lions,
The oven felt like a room
temperature,
Nineveh repented,
Peter became a rock,
Paul rejoiced,
Twelve basket s of bread were
left over,
Lazarus was just kidding,
Timothy built a church,
Abraham built a family,
The younger son came home to party,
The wall of Jericho came
trembling down
And
Jesus Christ resurrection
defeated sin and death.
It is unfortunate that on our
continent some traditions are unfair just as most DRC politicians are.
However,
as a grandson, a son, a nephew, a brother, a husband, a father and friend of
inspiring women, not only men inspire me but women inspire me too:
“...each one of us is capable of
being anything we want to be. It starts with individuals: each of us should go
out and do more to support each other. And we have to hold each other
accountable." – Dr. Scholastica Sylavan Kimaryo.
"We need to make
sure everyone around the world knows that
a girl has the same value as a boy"
– Graça Machel,
Today's human rights
violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts. – Mary
Robinson,
"If a country doesn't
recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will
not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible." – Hillary
Clinton.
“For me, a better democracy is a
democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be
elected.”— Michelle Bachelet,
“Neither the chains of
dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom
for long.”— Angela Merkel,
“If you just set out to be liked,
you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would
achieve nothing.”— Margaret Thatcher,
“It is not power that corrupts
but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the
scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”— Aung San Suu Kyi,
“Education is transformational.
It literally changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated,
and that is why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the
force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks
every person's God-given potential.”— Condoleezza Rice,
“Happiness is not a goal, it is a
by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to
map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and
exclusively.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,
“One of the lessons that I grew
up with was to always stay yourself and never let what somebody else says
distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false
attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”—
Michelle Obama,
“The size of your dreams must
always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not
scare you, they are not big enough.”— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
IN CONCLUSION LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Our future generations need to inherit a DRC that they shall call home with dignity regardless of whether they are descendants of those currently in power, or in opposition or of ordinary citizens.
The RC team remains committed to non-violent actions. The RC team is in support to constitutionally and timely
elections and remain committed to a national and inclusive dialogue as dialogue
remain one of the best means to finding durable and lasting solutions go any
problem but, because of our government, IEC and Supreme Court's failure to
perform their duties, the RC might be tempted to consider applying the recent
events in Burkina Faso, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and even Cote d' Ivoire to our own country.
May God bless the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Africa and our interdependent World!
I thank you!
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