Hamdouk: Addressing of Public Interests Is Entry Point To Achieving National Development Project

Khartoum (SUNA) – The Prime Minister, Dr. Abdalla Hamdouk, has stressed that to realize the development project in the country, which has not been achieved since independence, there must be addressing to the public interests by issuing the laws that regulate the behavior of individuals and citizens politically, economically and socially, and to apply them to everyone through Judiciary, a matter which represents the essence of the rule of law.

In the paper on the general framework of the democratic and development state and the components of the transitional government program, which he presented at the First National Economic Conference in the Friendship Hall Saturday, Dr. Hamdouk stated that the integrated development project needs to mobilize the resources represented in taxes, customs, Zakat, fees and the natural resource’ revenues and to spend them on security-keeping and judicial organs and the infrastructure that are necessary for production and the exchange of goods and services, including education, health and care for the vulnerable.

Hamdouk emphasized that the reasons for the failure of the national development project since Independence are represented in four axes: managing post-independence challenges, top of which are the managing of the cultural, ethnic and geographical diversity, building modern institutions for governance and administration, in addition to the locking of productive energies, the absence of visions, the weakness of will and the inability to plan and build a modern economic system based on clear bases, along with the institutional impediments and the empowerment system of the June 30th, 1989 coup established through the Islamic movement.
He said that Sudan has faced several and great challenges since Independence, the most important of which are the high aspirations for equality, justice, renaissance, and joining the developed nations, in addition to the challenge of regional disparity in the levels of development, the strength of ethnic and regional loyalties and the absence of a national developmental development project.

Dr. Hamdouk pointed out that the challenge of foreign interference in the internal affairs by friends and enemies necessitates confrontation to it with the presence of national intellectual and political leaders of high capabilities and a desire to achieve progress in Sudan.

He said that the absence of a national project has led to an increase in disputes and wars, the waste of time and human and financial resources, and a decline in national visions and development planning.