SPLM-DC’s Lam Akol takes Pagan Amum to court over allegations
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March 18, 2011 (JUBA) - The leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement for Democratic Change (SPLM-DC), Lam Akol, announced Thursday
that he will file a court case against the Secretary General of the
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Pagan Amum over allegations
that leaked documents from Khartoum’s defense ministry prove that he
is related to armed groups in South Sudan.
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Lam Akol, head of the SPLM-DC, listens in on a discussion of southern
unity and cooperation, during an all-southern-parties meeting in Juba,
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010 (AP)
Amum this week claimed that documents he presented to the press show
that the northern government was arming militias affiliated to the
chairman of SPLM-DC, Lam Akol. The SPLM-DC chairman has denied the
charges, saying they were fabricated to tarnish the image of his
political party, which broke away from the SPLM in 2009.
In statements published by The Citizen newspaper in Juba on Friday,
the leader of the opposition in South Sudan’s parliament and senior
member of the SPLM-DC, Onyoti Odigo, was quoted as saying that Lam
Akol had already opened a court case and challenged Pagan Amum to turn
up in court and prove his allegations.
“Dr. Lam has filed a case against Pagan Amum but Pagan fears to go and
prove his allegations and what he termed as evidence in court,” he
said.
Odigo who made the statements in a press conference he organized in
Juba on Thursday said Pagan Amum was only expressing anger because he
has lost popularity in the Shilluk land areas. Both Akol and Amum are
both from the Shilluk ethnic group, from Upper Nile and have been
rivals for many years.
The senior SPLM-DC spokesperson said that all the parliamentary seats
in Shilluk areas were won by SPLM-DC during the 2010 April elections.
“There is no doubt the whole community is behind the DC,” he said,
adding that Pagan wanted to divide the people of South Sudan and try
to put a distance between Lam Akol and the South’s president Salva
Kiir.
He explained that the forces that attacked Malakal were being
assembled and fed by the SPLM ruled state government of Upper Nile.
“How can the militias of SPLM-DC stay with the SPLM and who gives them
food, can you stay with your enemies?” he asked.
In his press conference on Monday, Pagan Amum said he was ready to go
to any court because he has the evident connecting the SPLM-DC to
militias.
“Yes, I am ready to go to court but which court did they open their
case, is it ICC?” he asked.
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