South Sudanese army chief and Aweil governors hold meeting
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February 10, 2016 (JUBA) – The South Sudanese army (SPLA) chief,
General Paul Malong Awan held on Tuesday a high profile meeting with
the three governors of Lol, Aweil and Aweil East states at his
residence in the country’s capital, Juba.
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South Sudanese army chief Gen. Paul Malong Awan speaking at a Dinka
Malual community meeting in Juba on 1 November 2012 (ST)
The meeting, sources told Sudan Tribune, was attended by governors
Rizik Zachariah Hassan (Lol), Ronald Ruay Deng (Aweil) and Deng Deng
Akuei (Aweil East) states. Several lawmakers also attended Tuesday’s
meeting.
Others at the meeting were Major Gen. Santino Deng Wol, police general
Akot Deng and several high and low ranking officials and senior
military officers.
Officials say the purpose of the Tuesday’s meeting was for Awan to
brief the governors on the outcome of the meetings he and several
other military officers from his area held in Aweil town and in
Warawar village.
According to officials who attended the Aweil meeting, one of the
issues discussed was the proposal for the army chief of staff to be
head of the country’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)
party for the three newly-created states as well as remain the Aweil
community leader.
Awan, by virtue of being overall head of the SPLM with
responsibilities overseeing the three states, would now be the one to
approve nomination of officials seeking appointments into various
cabinet and party positions.
The work of the governors, according to the proposal, would only be
reduced to recommending and conducting administrative supervision.
The proposal, accepted by two state governors, was reportedly opposed
by many of the politicians from Lol state, including their governor,
Hassan.
Instead Governor Hassan, sources told Sudan Tribune, preferred
bilateral cooperation rather than the administrative monopoly of the
affairs and immediately declared himself as the ruling party’s
chairperson for Lol state.
The Lol state governor reportedly said he would not accept anyone to
do middle work for him and his community, and preferred to directly
with the president without relying on a middle authority between him
and the latter.
A number of officials, who preferred anonymity, argued that Awan’s
main objective of seeking monopoly of power is to use it as a
political strength which he would allegedly use as a political card to
continue playing influential roles in national affairs as someone with
a strong support base.
However, losing support from Lol state specifically from the two
counties of Aweil West and Aweil North allegedly reduces the army
chief staff’s support base to Aweil East and some elements from Aweil
state.
This, the officials said, makes Awan appear in a weak political
standing on national affairs.
(ST)
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11 February 00:24, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam
No, it is not correct, let each of state have own chairman of SPLM
rather than Malong.
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11 February 00:25, by Gabriel KK
Governor Rizik Hassan is 100% right. there is nobody at all
between a governor of any state and the President. Each governor is a
head of SPLM in his state and should forwarded his concerns to
President only. Paul Malong has to come clean. what is he after?
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11 February 01:01, by Joseph Canada
hahahaha, how can this guy want to monopolize the states? can
you see how Dump these people are? I have never seen anything like
this apart from the Dinka mentality. And isn’t the soldier s work is
to protect the nation and not take political side? LORD HAVE MERCY.
!!!
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11 February 03:26, by lino
Ya Malong Awan, you can dominate everything; there are others to
lead and learn how to do things!!!
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11 February 05:03, by dinkdong
If Malong wants to lead, why don’t he overthrow Kiir?
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11 February 05:07, by Akot Deng
Lol state is quite far for administrative if combined with Aweil
East and Aweil states. But the fact remains we still need each other
as Madingaweil community for social affairs not political issues
because creation of States was to solve political and administrative
that are not well managed due their vastness. Otherwise Mr. Paul is
not a problem rather then those in political assumption.
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11 February 06:18, by Eastern
New leaders should be given a chance to emerge in South Sudan.
This stupid mentality of having stale leaders all the time is backward
and counter productive! Malong Awan and company have outlived their
usefulness!!
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