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[image: email] Email<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=enviar_email_articulo&id_article=49058> [image: print] Print<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=imprimable&id_article=49058> [image: pdf]Save<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=spipdf&spipdf=spipdf_article&id_article=49058&nom_fichier=article_49058> [image: separation] [image: increase] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49058#> [image: decrease] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49058#> [image: separation] [image: separation] ------------------------------ December 3, 2013 (JUBA) - South Sudan president Salva Kiir has openly accused some members of his ruling party (SPLM) of acting more like those opposed to the leadership of the country. “As you return, you must work very hard to unite the people in your states, structure your cabinet to align with the national cabinet so that resources are reserved to deliver services which our people are in need. You need to work very hard to structure the SPLM at all levels. This is very important since SPLM is behaving like the opposition”, Kiir told state governors during a Monday meeting. There is no opposition party, but the SPLM itself, added the president. Remarks by the SPLM chairperson, political analysts say, highlight the magnitude of tension from the internal wrangles within the party. The South Sudan leader, specifically cited states where governors often took unilateral actions without consulting the ruling party structures and unusual practices whereby some SPLM caucus members disagree with decisions from the executive. “These are things which must be corrected. There is nowhere where members of the same party behave as if they are different parties. There is no secrecy. Things which are discussed and supposed to be treated as internal matters come out before they are even known by some members”, emphasised Kiir. This practice must be discouraged and all of us should work out ways to handle internal matters, he further stressed. The ruling party, according to vice-president James Wani Igga, will hold its long-awaited National Liberation Council (NLC) meeting on 9 December, ending weeks of speculation that often left the public in disarray. *OFFICIALS SPEAK* Martin Majut Yak, the secretary for popular and syndicated organisation at the SPLM headquarters said the party leadership had confirmed that the NLC meeting will be held in the second week of this month. “So as the secretariat, we are preparing accordingly”, Yak told reporters in Juba. The meeting, he further said, would discuss a range of issues relating to the passing of the basic party documents, which was to be revised at the request of senior members to reflect international norms and standards. “The basic documents, which the leadership would hold discussion about, include the SPLM Constitution 2008, basic rule and regulations, code of conduct and its manifesto”, the official said. Louis Lobong Lojore, the governor of South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state confirmed that the president indeed demanded that the party be restructured and the cabinet aligned at state levels to meet the policy of a lean government. “We are from the meeting which was organised by the president. He [Kiir] wanted to brief us about the policy of his government and about the structuring of the SPLM in the states,” he said in a statement aired on the state-owned SSTV. The country’s ruling party currently faces a tough test after is senior members, including former vice-president Riek Machar openly challenged Kiir’s recent pronouncement that the SPLM structures had been dissolved. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14or2Bw1iHVuQkkNt2frmEs2fyMOc0nJU2KW-nYj-GORWUA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
