Comprehensive Defense and the Prime Minister

Dr. Hassan Issa Al-Talib

What is urgently required today from the state’s leadership, as a decisive necessity and a pressing national duty, is the issuance of a decree mandating governors to form popular advisory councils at the state level and popular advisory committees at the locality level through broad national consensus. These bodies would contribute to and participate in state administrative, legislative, and security decisions. As the saying goes, “He who consults is never disappointed,” and collective opinion is better, more blessed, and safer than that of the individual or a small elite group.
This step is both necessary and essential for constitutional legitimacy.
The country has long been deprived of the virtue of consultation and popular advisory opinion, as well as the principles and foundations of good governance—ever since the decisions of April 2019, which sidelined the head of state, dissolved the elected National Assembly, and dismissed the Chief Justice. As a result, the Constitutional Court was marginalized, the Constitution was violated, and the country fell into administrative fluidity and social disintegration.
What the country suffers from today—due to the encroachment of terrorists, a mercenary militia with its rented rifle—is a direct result of institutional complacency, which has caused a collective disaster. This stems from the intentional neglect of the duty of consultation and the assignment of public national responsibilities, including the second-highest post in the state, to unqualified individuals who lack competence, experience, or prior knowledge in these matters. This constitutes a betrayal of trust and the nation.
Neglecting consultation, as a principle, is extremely dangerous and destructive to the structure of the state and the cohesion of its social fabric. It fosters cliques, corruption, tyranny, regional fragmentation, conflict, and failure. Ignoring consultation means disregarding a religious obligation that is definitively proven in Islamic doctrine, as emphasized in the Qur’anic command: “And consult them in affairs”—specifically in matters of war. Consultation was a consistent practice during the Prophet Muhammad’s leadership in decisive battles, including Badr, Uhud, and the Trench.
Unfortunately, since the administrative chaos imposed on the country through ideological coercion, slander, political exclusion, blatant treason, disgraceful mercenarism, and the mortgaging of national resources to foreign embassy agendas, Sudan has had no advisory bodies, no consultation platforms, and no system of institutional counsel. Public affairs have been governed by whims and individual opinions, with no accountability, transparency, or legal oversight.
Sadly, our country has been managed for the past six years under this shameful model, inspired by the mentality of naive, politically immature youth activists with poor administrative and strategic sense. This reality has been enforced by rented pawns advancing the known foreign agenda—betraying their homeland, killing their people, severing family ties, and selling their honour, religion, and inherited values for a meagre price. They have corrupted the land, torn families apart, and are now cursed by widows, the looted, the raped, and the defeated.
The required solutions today—without hesitation, procrastination, or appeasement—given the existential threat of eradication, displacement, resource occupation, and the ongoing threats by the militias to kill any citizen who doesn’t conform to the occupiers’ agenda, is to mobilize the entire population, across all segments of society, in accordance with the Quranic injunction: “Go forth, whether light or heavy.” Everyone must contribute according to their area of expertise.
Therefore, it is imperative—immediately and effectively, under the supervision of the acting Prime Minister—that grassroots defence and popular mobilization groups be established in every locality, district, and neighbourhood across the country. These popular grassroots structures should be supported by qualified trainers from the armed forces and experts in public security, civil, social, and community defence. Their duties would include weapons training and forming front-line defence units in every region and locality. They would serve as sustainable support resources and a national reserve for Sudan.
The country can no longer be managed, under the current conditions, with the mindset of a single authoritarian ruler who shows his people only what he sees fit, nor through the narrow operational lens of a regional military commander. Public affairs are far greater than the executive and operational capabilities of any individual ruler—no matter his competence or self-confidence. We have, in wise guidance, merciful revelation, historical lessons, and the fates of nations, ample examples from which to learn.

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