No development without change

There is no development without change or loss and an environment or human being ought to transform to experience development.  More so, structural development such as the construction of physical infrastructures likes the roads and residences always come with losses due to the restructuring of the area.

 It is clear that all those present cities around the world that we do admire—the Londons, Pretoria, Paris and New Yorks of this world— have gone through demolitions that paved the way for the new structures.

As humans, we must always be ready to accept change in our own lives and the environment we live in such that we can experience development because there can never be development without change.

 Unfortunately, within the society there are those who do not want change; they want things to remain in it. The old looks cannot make bring any development because being resistant to change is a sign of anti-development.

Several people have continued to criticise the mayor of Juba City Council Kalisto Laduo over the ongoing demolition of the structures built along the roadside. And, the best thing the mayor has done is by keeping to his vision and mission of the structuring of Juba City. There is no way we can expect development if we continue to be very rigid to the new ideas for development.  Even within yourself, if you do not embrace changes, you will not have transformation.

As much as some people may not be pleased with the current restructuring of the Juba City that is taking place, in reality, Juba is beginning to look like a city. The capital city cannot continue to have funny structures along the roadsides without proper arrangement.

There are always challenges when effecting changes and even all those cities we are admiring around the world have gone through several reforms; they were not planted.

So, there is a need to implement the urban policy because this will also enable residents in the city to easily access the services. We need easy access to the roads leading from the residential areas to the main. There are some areas in Juba one cannot access easily because some individuals have decided to construct on the public road.

In the past years, Juba was considered the largest village in the world, but this concept has greatly changed in the last 16 years since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005.

So, it is now the time to create new ways to live in the urban sphere—but refusing to allow unlawful structures to be swept away by restructuring them from the traditional outlook— then Juba as the capital will never stand as a beacon for any country around the world to admire. Let us also make people admire us instead of us always admiring from them.  As the Juba city dwellers, we should not be paradoxical to positive change then on the one hand we remain eager to admire all that is new in other countries.