South Sudan claims former SPLA chief of staff joined rebels
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Former SPLA chief-of-staff Oyay Deng Ajak with co-accused former SPLM
Secretary General Pagan Amum Okiech in court during their trial for
treason on 9 April 2014 (ST Photo)
January 26, 2017 (JUBA) - The office of South Sudan President Salva
Kiir Thursday has claimed that former chief of general of the Sudan
People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) has finally decided to join the armed
opposition .
Presidential spokesperson, Ateny Wek Ateny, claimed General Oyai Deng
Ajak had rebelled, wondering what could have motivated him after had
the opportunity to hold top positions.
“Only greed and exceeding thirst for power, can the one time respected
Commander of Operation Jungle Storm (OJS), in the one-time powerful
and united SPLM/A duration and after the war of liberation, the former
Chief of General Staff, briefly under the former leader John Garang
and under Gen, Salva Kiir’s leadership of the then autonomous Southern
Sudan, a Minister for Investment briefly at independence, a Minister
of National Security in the Office of the President, again becomes the
Chief of General Staff of ill-conceived rebels movement- what a world
of greed? It is a laughing stock, if not absolute idiocy. God safe
South Sudan,” said Ateny on Thursday.
The presidential spokesperson did not provide the source of this
information, also no official statement released by General Oyai, or
any group to which he is purported to have joined declaring his
decision.
It was not possible for Sudan Tribune to know which group Ajak has
joined since there are several rebel factions operating in either
inside or outside the country.
Observers say he must want to associate Oyai with the National
Democratic Movement of Lam Akol Ajawin, the former agriculture
minister who resigned from his position in protest of lack of
implementation of the peace agreement.
Ajak had being detained with Pagan Amum and other leading former
members in the South Sudanese government in December 2013.
During his trial on 9 April 2014, he was accused of rebellion and
treason, after allegations that he and the other political detainees
had attempted to overthrow the government of President Kiir.
However, the court ordered their release on 24 April 2014 "in order to
promote peace and reconciliation among our people".
(ST)
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