Pagan Amum reinstated as SPLM secretary-general
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June 23, 2015 (JUBA) - The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)
on Tuesday endorsed reinstatement of Pagan Amum as secretary-general
of the South Sudan’s ruling party, in implementation of Arusha
agreement to end the 19-month-conflict.
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SPLM SG Pagan Amum shakes hands with a Chinese oil worker in Bentinu
during a visit to the oil fileds in Unity state in 2008. The then
governor of Unity state Taban Deng Gai accompanied him in his tour.
(SPLM Photo)
On 21 January 2015 the three factions of the SPLM in government, SPLM
in opposition and the former detainees signed the Agreement on the
Reunification of the SPLM in Arusha, Tanzania and vowed to work
together to secure reforms and national unity. Arusha roadmap accord,
also, aims to support the IGAD-brokered process aiming to end the
violent conflict that erupted on 15 December 2013.
A month later, the parties on 17 February agreed on the implementation
mechanisms and called on South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir, who is
also the chairman of the SPLM-in government to revoke the decision
that dismissed party leaders.
On Monday, the former secretary-general returned to Juba as his group
said they are resolved to turn the page on the past events and look
forward to achieve peace, reconciliation and national unity.
An emergency SPLM National Liberation Council (NLC) early on Tuesday
reinstated Amum in accordance with the Arusha deal after President
Kiir reportedly asked the lawmaking body of the SPLM to revoke his
February 2013 decree on the dismissal of the party’s secretary general
.
After being sworn in late on Tuesday, Amum told reporters that he will
organize an apology rally to the south Sudanese affected by the war
triggered by SPLM power struggle, as it is provided in the Arusha
agreement.
“We shall apologize to the public and I hope we shall do our best to
end the war,” he told reporters.
Amum’s swearing in ceremony at SPLM House in Juba was attended by
President Kiir and facilitated by Lauren Khor Bandi, the presidential
advisor on religious affairs.
Kenyan defence minister Raychelle Awour Omamo and a number of senior
members of NLC as well as government cabinet ministers witnessed the
ceremony.
Thousands of people were killed and millions uprooted from their homes
when political debates on reforms within the ruling party turned
violent.
SPLM officials say the return of Amum and the members of the former
detainees group, will help end war.
“This is a good news for south Sudan, for SPLM members and the entire
region as well as the international community,” Akol Paul Kordit, the
SPLM political bureau spokesperson said after the morning meeting.
The leader of the SPLM-in opposition and former vice-president Riek
Machar met last weekend with the Kenyan president to discuss the
ongoing processes to reunify the SPLM and bring peace in the country.
But nothing filtered from the encounter.
Also the leadership of rebel movement, which seems more interested in
IGAD-led peace process, is holding consultations meeting in Nairobi on
issues pertaining to the promotion of peace process.
The SPLM-IO says there is a need to address the root causes of the
conflict and reach genuine reforms in order to achieve a meaningful
peace agreement that will ensure no future return to similar
differences and crisis in the country.
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24 June 04:31, by Akol Liai Mager
That’s great! I hope that the Party’s senior leaders understood
the needs for rapid reforms to pass a revolutionary phase into
democracy phase. That Party must adapt conducting meetings as a way of
running its affairs as well as running the country as a ruling party.
Without meetings, it just means that a one man is making all decisions
of the party as well as the nation.
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