Juba dismisses ambassador’s role in alleged coup plot
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January 4, 2015 (JUBA) – The South Sudanese presidency has dismissed
as “untrue” and “unfounded” reports alleging ambassador Gordon Buay
and the Ulang county commissioner, Gatkouth Bim Nyoak plan to
overthrow the Juba regime.
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Gordon Buay Malek (L) with South Sudan President, Salva Kiir (Laco Lomayat)
Buay and Nyoak reportedly described president Salva Kiir’s government
as a private tribal entity and that the South Sudanese leader was
"illiterate" and incompetent.
“I think this is not true. Ambassador Gordon Buay is a staunch
supporter of President Salva Kiir and he cannot work against him.
Instead he is working for his success. He cannot work for the downfall
of the president. What is reported is just a misleading propaganda to
cause confusion”, the presidential spokesperson Ateny Wek Ateny told
Sudan Tribune on Sunday.
Ateny said Buay was in Canada on a family visit and would return for
his duties at the foreign affairs and international cooperation
ministry.
“Gordon Buay is currently visiting his family in Canada and he would
return to resume his duties. All that has been said and attributed to
him is a lie. There is no truth for anyone to accept”, he clarified.
An undisclosed source in Canada quoted Buay to have branded president
Kiir a “lucky” leader, who was in power because of allies.
“If it weren’t because of luck, he [Kiir] wouldn’t have become the
president. In addition, without me, Kiir would have lost his
legitimacy a long time ago. But I happened to be his sharp critique
and protect the constitution of the country, which is what has become
the shell to him internationally," Buay allegedly remarked.
"I have to do this because he can be fooled until he is finished so
that he can go to ICC [International Criminal Court] for killing
innocent civilians in Juba”..
The envoy, according to the source, also vowed to ally with the army’s
chief of staff to take over the leadership should Bor, the capital of
its largest state, fall to the rebels.
In the said interview, ambassador Buay and commissioner Nyoak
allegedly admitted thousands of Nuer civilians were killed in
December, 2013 in Juba by presidential guards and have they evidences
showing more than 20,000 people have so died.
BUAY RESPONDS
But ambassador Buay said the allegations were a concoction by the
rebels in an attempt to discourage diaspora communities and those at
home from supporting government as some Nuer community members have
started abandoning rebellion to join the Juba establishment.
“There is no truth in what has been reported. It is just a concoction.
This is not the first time. They have been doing it to cause
confusion. The website which reported these fabricated allegations has
allegiance to the rebels. Those who run it are supporters of the
rebels,” he told Sudan Tribune from Canada.
“What the rebels need to know is that I am the government and the
state of South Sudan. If you see me, then, you see Salva Kiir
Mayardit,” added Buay, who likened his relationship with president
Kiir to that existing between Jesus Christ and Jehovah.
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