S. Sudanese minister quits transitional government over peace violations
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Lam Akol, chairman of South Sudan’s main opposition party (AFP/Samir Bol Photo)
August 1, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – Leader of the South Sudan’s National
Alliance parties and chairman of the Democratic Party (DC), Lam Akol
Ajawin, said he has resigned from all his party and government
positions to protest government’s lack of commitment to the peace
agreement.
Akol said the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South
Sudan (ARCISS) is “dead” and will, from now on, join with the
“like-minded” to “broaden” an opposition “outside Juba” to tackle the
ongoing situation in the country.
“This is to inform the public that I have on the 28th of July tendered
my resignation to the National Alliance as Minister of Agriculture and
Food Security in the Transitional Government of National Unity (TgoNU)
and also as their representative in the Joint Monitoring and
Evaluation Commission (JMEC),” said Ajawin in a press statement he
issued on Monday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
He was nominated to the positions by the alliance of 17 political
parties in the country.
“These positions were necessitated by the implementation of the
Agreement for Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan signed in
August 2015. There is no more a peace agreement to implement in Juba.
President Salva Kiir has dealt it a final blow with his actions since
the first week of jolly culminating in the military attack on the
first vice president, dislodging him from Juba and invoking his
absence to fill his position with a person of his choice in the name
of SPLM-IO. One cannot with a clear conscience serve under such a
regime,” he said.
He said he could no longer work with the party of president Kiir in
the unity government, charging that President Kiir and his acolytes
did not hide their rejections of peace agreement.
“He has been putting obstacle after obstacle on the way of its
implementation and violating it with impunity. He cited creation of 28
states, refusing to implement security arrangements, stalling
reconstitution of the transitional legislative assembly, preventing
the ceasefire and transitional security arrangement monitoring
mechanism from carrying out its duty to observe and report on
ceasefire violation,” he added.
The opposition leader accused President Salva Kiir of abrogating the
August 2015 peace deal, adding that appointing Taban Deng Gai to
replace Riek Machar, leader of the armed oppositon faction of the
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO), was meant to destroy the
peace accord.
“The violent events that took place in Juba in the first week of July
were pre-meditated and well planned. The SPLM-IO’s small force was
provoked into an uneven confrontation,” he said.
“While Kiir’s forces hunt for Dr. Riek Machar to get him “dead or
alive” they should be reminded that that will not be the end of the
story. The genie is out of the bottle and the last laugh will not be
theirs. The people of South Sudan will not stand more of a callous,
totalitarian and ethno-centric regime that seems to thrive on the
suffering of its people,” he added, with the statement he signed as
“former” chairman of the DC party.
It is not clear whether or not the leader of the country’s largest
non-armed opposition party will forge an opposition alliance with the
Machar against President Kiir.
(ST)
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1 August 20:25, by dinkdong
Riek is Lam’s former ally. It is obvious he might join him to
fight Kiir’s gov’t.
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1 August 20:42, by jubaone
Thank you Dr. Lam Akol,
You have a clear conscience and you have political sanity. Now
let the monkeys and devils go ahead. You should now work hard to have
Kiir and his men indicted to the ICC, that there is travel ban, no
donor money, no international support, they must be isolated and any
of them MUST be arrested once they get out of Juba for committing
serious human rights (rape, kiling, etc.
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1 August 21:08, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam
Stupid, let them go to exile one.
I do agree with Taban Deng Gai for statement that you go to stay
in Kampala, Addis abba, Nairobi or Khartoum telling to all IO members
alliances with Riek Machar, should join him in abroad or in the bush.
government should issue arrest on Lam Akol once he land in Juba in
next century.
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1 August 21:52, by Native Boy
Ayuiu!
How dare you wrongly advise the govt to arrest Dr. Lam on his
arrival to S. Sudan?
What crime has he committed apart from expressing his
dissatisfaction about the behavior of the entire govt on the ARCISS?
Don’t you know the ARCISS is the only hope to the marginalized
people of S. Sudan?
Don’t you know why people were all quite about everything?
Do you know the ARCISS addresses everybody?
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1 August 22:02, by Native Boy
Do you even know the ARCISS is not about your Riak whom
you naturally hate nor even about you god kiir?
If you have nothing to write, why don’t you just remain
calm learn from how others gives in there opinion? Don’t just write
for the sake.
What is wrong with Dr. Lam when actually he exercised one
of the freedom of expressions which are provided in the Transitional
Constitution of RSS?
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1 August 23:48, by Twin cities
Ayulu,
Be mature and moral in your statements. I had never sided with
Lam Akol in most of his political views, but to day the man had taken
a step that should be acknowledged. As, matters are getting a little
bit gloomy in South Sudan, the noble thing to do is to step aside and
work for the rights of the citizens who are voiceless. I salute Mr.
Lam for his courage to set an example.
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1 August 23:52, by Twin cities
Ayulu,
Make no mistake, b stepping on the sidelines doesn’t
represents defeat. It’s a noble, mature and moral decision that one
has to take. No doubt there are lots in this forum who are emotionally
put in to action and forget to use common sense.
South Sudan needs a collective approach for it to be a nation.
Cut down cow dung mentality and think like a human being who is
suppose to flourish.
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1 August 22:02, by Eastern
With the genie out of the bottle, let’s see what Kiir and cohorts
in Juba will offer those they have prevented from leaving the country.
Peace and security will remain elusive with Kiir at the helm. I have
repeated this numerous time!
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1 August 22:59, by Eastern
Mr Festus "Impotent" the chairperson of JMEC has failed in his
position to reign in Kiir. It’s time for the African solution to give
way to UN Trusteeship.mmorons will begin asking why not Syria, Libya,
etc. It’s South Sudan that real South Sudanese are concerned about not
the other countries cited.,.,
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1 August 23:12, by DHARCHEP
Lam Akol, there is nothing to assure from you whether you resign
or quit your position. First of all, who need you? Second, you talk
about peace in South Sudan, but you don’t know that you are amongst
those of the people who derailed the peace in South Sudan. I know you
resign because you are old enough to necessitate your objectives since
you rebel for a very long time.
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1 August 23:25, by DHARCHEP
Lam Akol, first of all, you are a sycophant leader. In other word,
you are a leader who support somebody for the seek of profit. You
don’t have any objectives to carry. You and your friend Fucken Riek
Machar, will die for leadership,but no one from you will call you as
president in South Sudan. All of you will die as rebels, and your
title will remain as the "leader of the rebels.
Dharchep
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1 August 23:39, by Edward Marshall
This is how the real great leaders of the countries should act.Dr
Lam Akol you are the great man for peace in the south sudan.For the
guns that they are turning it on their own poor people,next time it
shall be turn against them.For the land that they are grabbing
now,next time they shall live it to the owner and the money and the
looting that they are doing next time they will live it to the coun
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2 August 01:18, by Gabriel KK
Mr President will surely regret his actions of being a man of
people in his grave.
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2 August 04:43, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam
Government should block flighing out on IO ministers because the
same routes of 2013 is repeating they go and the propagate the
situation in Juba.
Those ministers who are grivancy to incite situation should face
arrest immediately.
I’m sure government would do it.
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2 August 04:48, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam
Mabior Garang should be arrest I had eared his statement on Juba
violence on 8th July when Riek Machar and his bodyguards were trying
to kill president Kiir Mayardit.
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2 August 04:54, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam
The broken of August 2015 peace agreement was destroyed by Dr. Lam
and Riek Machar.
But still government convincing them to come for implementation of
hopful peace, Lam is advising Riek Machar not to come Juba.
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2 August 05:30, by Whortti Bor Manza
Ayuiu Makuc,
Go to school to learn English before you embark on writing on
this site. Your rudimentary and incomprehensible writings clearly
demonstrate the arrogance of Dinkas on insisting on something they
don’t even know nor understand.
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2 August 06:36, by Akook
Don’t worry about Ayuiu Makuaac Lam guys. He is a known
crazy guy from Rumbek. He doesn’t understand where his interest is!
All intellectual youth members from Rumbek are keeping their lips tied
knowing very well that their REK cousins are destroying behind the
curtain of Dinkanism as a whole. Ayuiu is a lost fellow who innocently
throw himself in places he doesn’t understand anything...
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2 August 06:39, by Akook
Salva Kiir is closed to leave if those types of Ayuiu
have remain his supporters. Ignore him the guy is sick mentally unfit
for meaningful debates. Don’t waste your times respond to whatever he
writes on this site. I know him well ..
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