South Sudan legislator quits to protest security failure
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Taban Deng Gai addresses delegates after he was sworn-in as South
Sudan FVP inside the Presidential Palace in the capital of Juba, July
26, 2016 (Photo Reuters/ Jok Solomun)
June 23, 2017 (JUBA) - A lawmaker in South Sudan’s transitional
national legislative assembly has tendered his resignation over the
poor state of security, accusing government forces of killing and
destroying properties of civilians they are mandated to protect and
safeguard their safety.
Abraham Majak Maliap, a Member of Parliament representing the Sudan
People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led Taban Deng
Gai said in a resignation letter that he would no longer continue to
perform his parliamentary role at the Transitional Legislative
Assembly to protest the violation of the peace agreement by the
government.
The legislator further underscored that the transitional government of
national unity has the obligation to uphold issues of insecurity and
starvation in the country.
“As I am writing this letter, the civilians are dying all over South
Sudan due to inter-clan fighting, starvation, disease and government
forces’ involvement in the destruction of civilians’ property and
looting them to the death of many civilians," he said.
"I cannot be part of a government which left civilians to finish
themselves, like what is happening in Western Lake state where
civilians are killing themselves without government intervention,”
stressed Maliap.
Maliap said he was not only leaving his parliamentary role but also
terminating his political allegiance and membership with the SPLM-IO
faction under the leadership of the first vice president Taban Deng
Gai.
“I am resigning as a sign of my protest to the death of the civilians
in Western Lakes State which I represent, and plus other issues which
I have mentioned," he wrote in his letter od resignation.
"Therefore, I have decided today resign from my position as a member
of the transitional legislative assembly and also from membership in
SPLM/A-IO,” he stressed.
The legislator is one of the many officials and military officers who
have left the unity government which they joined with the hope that
things would change to the expectations of the general public.
His resignation was preceded by the departure from the government of
several military and political figures after Machar was forced out of
Juba following the resumption of conflict in July 2016.
(ST)
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24 June 02:49, by Malakal county Simon
Right call...... No body want to be part of bad history!!
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24 June 07:13, by Eastern
Abraham Majak Maliap will have no guilt conscience hovering over
him and posterity will not judge on the same scale with his former
boss El Tabani Deng...
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24 June 09:46, by Achuil friedman
Let him revolt against Taban
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24 June 10:59, by Redeemer
Abraham Majak
You don’t know who to be blamed on the killing in Lake State,
blame your mad people. They confront any government force with fight
and than you turned the table saying government is killing civilians.
They kill to show who is stronger than the other. It is you to tell
them to stop, you are the gv’t which gv’t are you calling?
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24 June 13:22, by Eastern
The "Hon" Abraham Majak Maliap is already a prisoner of
conscience; HE CAN’T LEAVE the country either through Juba Airport or
Nimule port for the poor people.....Let him fight from within like
me...
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24 June 14:17, by Nyesi Ta
Jenge, Jenge ko kinyo!!! When there is no foot jenge will quit.
Look, most of them who left the diaspora to join the looting spree in
South Sudan are now back to the diaspora after they lost all the loots
they acquired wrongly and their families disintegrated. Born to rule
huh! The Jenge could neither manage their families nor run a country
period.
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