Dozens of youth in Uganda abandon Machar-led rebel faction
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September 28, 2016 (KAMPALA) – At least 26 supporters of South
Sudanese former vice president, Riek Machar in Kampala, Uganda said
they have defected to the faction headed by his successor, Taban Deng
Gai.
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South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar speaks during a briefing
in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa April 9, 2016 (Photo Reuters/ Tiksa
Negeri)
The defectors included former members of the armed opposition faction
(SPLM-IO) office in the Ugandan capital.
Those who abandoned Machar’s faction included ex-Mayom county
commissioner Charles Kuol.
Malek Cook, a defector, described Gai as the only leader capable of
restoring peace and stability.
“Taban’s [Deng] faction is pursuing peaceful means using non-violence
that is why we have defected to support peace. The compromise peace
agreement is to be implemented in later and spirit whereby Taban now
is [implementing]. There are so many milestones that we can see the
positive part compromise peace agreement two is moving on very well,”
Malek told Sudan Tribune on Thursday.
He said those who joined the country’s new first vice president were
due to traverse the various camps accommodating South Sudanese
refugees in Uganda to rally support for the ex-rebel chief negotiator.
“Our strategy [is] to bring the community on board. We are very soon
to launch some conferences peace conferences here in Kampala whereby
we should encourage debate and dialogue and preaching the message of
peace to the community,” further stressed Malek.
James Magok Chuol, a member of the Machar-led faction, however, said
they were undeterred by the alleged defection of some youth to Gai’s
group, stressing that the defectors supported the Juba regime.
“They are none SPLM [South Sudan’s ruling party] members since the
incident of 2013 and if you look at some of them is government
supporters, some of them came to Uganda for school. They are not even
participating in the SPLM activities in Uganda,” Chuol told Sudan
Tribune in an interview.
He said the economic crisis in the country forced many South Sudanese
students to drop out of school.
Those claiming to be Gai’s supporters were simply seeking financial
gains having dropped out of school.
“Some of the students drop out from school if there is any opportunity
for them to get mean then because they are too desperate, because if
you look at Taban group, they are after money,” he added.
Stephen Waat Bipal, who supports Machar, says he too believes his
colleagues who defected to Deng’s faction are expecting to receive
funds from the South Sudanese government under President Salva Kiir.
“I think those members they are the members who want to manipulate the
community and I know that even they know themselves and their chairman
comrade Taban when he defected from the SPLM-IO to the government and
then the decision we know the chairman dismissed general Taban from
the membership of the SPLM-IO and all the positions he held in the
SPLM-IO,” he said.
Machar fled the South Sudan capital, Juba in July after his residence
was attacked prompting his immediate replacement from the coalition
government. The armed opposition leader has vowed not to return to
Juba unless a protection force has been deployed, along the United
Nations peacekeepers to restore calm in Juba city.
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30 September 08:01, by Splm-iG
That’s correct
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30 September 08:08, by Ajongtar
These are food lovers we know them,
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30 September 08:15, by J P Puok
they had been in Uganda during the whole period of crisis and
never had heart on the blood of those Taban conspired against and
especially the victims of his marking in fateful J1 of 8th July. Some
of them never joint IO in the first place. Charles Machieng had been
in Kampala under the govt scholarship. some oil company workers had
been shuttling between Juba and kampala since 2013 since killing!
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30 September 08:48, by Akuma
Puok,
SPLM-IO under Riek Machar are in disarrays and lack
visions that can bring develop youth other than Riek Machar using
those remaining youth to fight for his positions.
Thanks to Youth in Uganda for abandoning useless Riek
organization which is fully with their self-interest.
Other mindful youth from other countries need to also
abandon Riek Machar organization
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30 September 09:28, by Midit Mitot
Hahahah,
I knew these food seekers one by one in Kabalagala (Wakala)
area of Kampala, these are crook guys who have been in Kampala begging
Gov,t official for their school fees for this along without joining
SPLA-IO movement. STD is very desperate to take even those who have no
capacity to do any thing in his Gov,t.
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30 September 12:06, by choldit
That is a wrong info. No body left the pple,s movement. If
anyone, shld be food lovers and Dinka decenders of slaved dinka.
However, they can’t go to juba where Dinka are telling Taban Deng and
his what to do.
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30 September 08:08, by Eastern
Like fathers like sons; anything SPLM/A is always disastrous. It
shameful urban poverty is evening pushing the youth to join the game
of gluttony called "defections"
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