Bashir blames South Darfur unrest on ex-governor
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February 3, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese President Omer Al-Bashir
has castigated the ex-governor of South Darfur State against the
background of recent violent events that followed the decision to
replace him.
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FILE - Sudan President Omer Al-Bashir (GETTY)
South Darfur State last month witnessed a wave of mass protest and
concomitant vandalism after the state’s newly appointed governor,
Hamad Isma’il, arrived to assume the duties of his predecessor Abdul
Hamid Musa Kasha.
Kasha, an elected governor, was relived from his position as part of
Al-Bashir’s 10 January decrees which increased the number of states in
Sudan’s western region from three to five and appointed new governors.
Al-Bashir’s decrees were part of the Doha Peace Agreement signed
between the government and one of Darfur rebel groups in a bid to end
the nine-year-old conflict in the region.
The violence has killed at least three people and saw offices of the
ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in the state’s capital Nyala
being looted and destroyed.
A number of NCP officials who commented on the events sought to
absolve Kasha of links to the violence in an attempt to deny the
existence of rifts within the NCP base in the state.
But Al-Bashir, in a two-hour interview with the Blue Nile TV on
Friday, revealed that Kasha and his stalwarts in the state were
implicated in the unrest.
Al-Bashir accused the ex-governor of incompetency, saying he had
appointed too many people to constitutional positions, over 70
officials, thus creating a base of supporters who were responsible for
igniting the violence.
The NCP chairman, who declared that the events in Nyala ended
completely, also accused members of Darfur rebel groups and some
Shamasa, a name for street children in Sudan, of participating in the
violence.
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