SPLM-IO Equatorian caucus calls for suspension of deputy chairman
Alfred Lado Gore
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June 21, 2015 (NAIROBI) – Senior leaders from South Sudan’s greater
Equatoria region in the armed opposition faction of the Sudan People’s
Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) led by former vice president, Riek
Machar, have called for suspension and investigation of General Alfred
Ladu Gore, deputy chairman of the movement, for allegedly being bribed
and planning to rejoin president Salva Kiir’s government.
In a public statement signed on 20 June by a 27-member of the
Equatorian caucus of the SPLM-IO, it charged the rebel’s deputy
chairman, Alfred Ladu Gore and other two rebel officials including
Ramadan Hassan Laku, who is chief coordinator in the office of the
chairman and Adel Sandrai, representative of the movement in Kenya,
for conducting secret meetings with government agents who planned to
divide the movement and subsequently bring back the defected officials
to Juba.
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Alfred Ladu Gore (Photo from his page on Facebook)
The statement explained that the three officials have been having
unauthorized secret meetings with the three governors of the greater
Equatoria states of Central, Eastern and Western Equatoria under
mediation of the office of president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda with
the aim to either make them a separate movement which can quickly sign
a peace agreement with Juba or simply agree to return to Juba for
positions.
The statement which urged the chairman and commander-in-chief of
SPLM/SPLA, Riek Machar, to suspend the three officials was signed by
27 Equatorian officials of the caucus in the rebel faction, including
Oyet Nathaniel Pierino, chairman of national committee for political
mobilization and orientation; Richard K. Mulla, chairman for national
committees for justice and human rights; Odwar Henry Dilang, chairman
for SPLM/SPLA engagement committee; Aggrey Iddri Esbon, deputy
chairman of national committee for resource mobilization; Mannaseh
Zindo, deputy chairman of national committee for women and youth
empowerment; Marko Lokidor, Lochapio, governor of Kapoeta state; Otim
David, SPLM/SPLA representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, among others.
“Urge the leadership to suspend from office Cde. Alfred Ladu Gore,
Cde. Ramadan Hassan Laku and Cde. Adel Senderi,” declared the
Equatorian leaders in the statement Sudan Tribune has obtained.
“That the leadership establishes a five (05) member independent
investigation committee headed by the Deputy Chairman of the National
Committee for Justice and Human Rights to investigate and render
reports with recommendations within two weeks on the misconducts of
Cde. Alfred Ladu Gore, Cde. Ramadan Hassan Laku and Cde. Adel
Senderi,” partly reads the statement.
They accused the trio of abandoning the official dialogue sanctioned
by the leadership between three pro-government Equatorian governors,
Clement Wani Konga, Louis Lobong and Joseph Bakosoro, of Central,
Eastern and Western Equatoria states, respectively, and 9-member
committee appointed by the chairman led by Odwar Henry Dilang with the
aim to harmonize Equatoria’s position in the peace process, mainly on
the question of federalism and reforms.
The statement alleged that the three Equatorian rebel leaders instead
came up with their own position paper which resorted to “dubious”
deals that involved monetary bribery and activities to dismantle the
rebel movement.
“Condemn the misconducts of Cde. Alfred Ladu Gore, Cde. Ramadan Hassan
Laku and Cde. Adel Senderi for lack of transparency and secrecy in
dealing with the three Equatoria Governors and the fact that the trio
deliberately isolated, ignored and eventually undermined the functions
of the official nine member SPLM/SPLA Engagement Committee,” the
statement further reads.
The caucus further accused the officials of harbouring and pursuing
dubious interests aimed at dividing the ranks and files of SPLM/SPLA
into regional, sectional and tribal groupings and subsequently
defecting from the movement.
“Accepting and receiving funds from the Government of South Sudan
through their agents to facilitate parallel activities within the
SPLM/SPLA and defections of Equatorians who are members of SPLM/SPLA,”
further charged the statement.
It accused them of “holding secret meetings with agents and
governments of countries hostile to the interest of the people of
South Sudan and SPLM/SPLA.”
They cited that Gore and the other two officials undertook illegal
secret mission to Uganda on 25 May, 2015, in order to meet
representatives of the government of Uganda and the Equatoria
governors in Kampala with the intention of consolidating plans
parallel and harmful to the interests of SPLM/SPLA and stability of
South Sudan.
They also charged them for using “seditious, derogatory and divisive
languages” on fellow members of the movement, adding that the
Equatorians caucus in the rebel movement in their four-day meeting
this week resolved to suspend and ex-communicate the three officials
from the membership of Equatoria in SPLM/SPLA Caucus and “cease all
official interactions and business with Cde. Alfred Ladu Gore, Cde.
Ramadan Hassan Laku and Cde. Adel Senderi in their respective
capacities.”
The statement proposed that the report and recommendations by
independent investigation committee be tabled in the next SPLM/SPLA
Leadership Council Meeting for discussion. They also resolved to halt
with immediate effect any engagement with Equatoria states governors
and their “agents” until investigations are carried out.
“Urge the leadership of the SPLM/SPLA and members of SPLM/SPLA to deal
with impunity and remain seized of the matter,” it says.
They also appreciated what they said were the various appointments of
sons and daughters from the Equatoria region into positions of
responsibilities in the rebel movement and urged the leadership to
expeditiously make appointments of states governors in the remaining
newly created five states of greater Equatoria.
There have been speculations that president Museveni was looking
forward to creating another rebellion for greater Equatoria region
which he can control and use as a centre of influence to mediate with
president Kiir’s government on his own terms as the IGAD peace process
seemed to have sidelined him in the process.
(ST)
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