Kamil’s Government Versus Sudan’s Government!! 

By Rashid Abdel Rahim

There is no clear plan or outline for Dr. Kamil Idris’s government other than his personal experience in life, practices, dreams, and aspirations. He began his work by dreamily naming the government “the Government of Hope,” in a statement that sounded like an election campaign to attract voters, rather than a government operating under crises and complex circumstances.

This designation is the meaning of the title of his book, “Evaluating the Path and Dreaming of the Future,” which he decided alone would guide the government and its approach to work.

The influence on Dr. Kamil’s long life by the West is evident in two decisions he drew from American history. The first is his decision that any minister who fails to deliver clear achievements within three months will be fired. This is an application of what Roosevelt pioneered as a basis for evaluating a president’s term from the first 100 days of his term.

The Marshall Plan, which he seeks to impose on ministers, is the title of an American plan formulated in 1948 to assist Europe in its economic crisis.

Did Dr. Kamil apply the preconditions he has set on himself? The three-month deadline is about to expire, and his cabinet has yet to be fully named. The decisions and directives issued on important and significant issues were issued solely by him, not by the government.

Indeed, the most important sovereign ministry, Foreign Affairs, remains vacant. The most important service ministry, Health, is also vacant. The most important Ministry of Production and Exports, Animal Resources, is also awaiting a leader.

The government is still waiting for the appointment of a spokesperson to be its mouthpiece.

The Prime Minister also operates through an office that has not been appointed in accordance with the criteria he announced, which stipulate that selection for public positions be through public announcements and open competition.

Who manages his work and organizes his schedule? Who advises him on the selection of ministers?

Personal assessments in this critical position create more problems than solutions. The Prime Minister has complained about the existence of a fifth column within the government apparatus, complaining even though he has the power to appoint and dismiss all those who hold public office, including ministers who have been given a deadline to complete their duties. A government that is given specifics and tasks without being a partner in formulating and discussing them does not need a fifth column to be active within it. It will do so without tiring it.

And how will the ministers function when the sword of dismissal and its justifications are hanging over their heads, and the Prime Minister himself is responsible for it?

All this will lead to a government that cannot be described as civilian, liberal, or free in its work.

The war the country is experiencing, which has not yet ended and whose effects are widespread, does not match the actions and decisions we can expect, which are neither well-considered nor well-thought-out, nor taken, based on consultation, studies, and the participation of ministries and institutions.

If Dr. Kamil Idris does not desert this approach to his work, the government will not last long, and we will enter another repetitive phase in which we will lose significant time. Time in our country is measured by the agricultural seasons and climate conditions. Wasting even a few days of these means wasting money and revenues, the collapse of projects, and widespread unemployment.

We want a government that can be called the Government of Sudan, not the government of Kamil Idris.

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