JUBA – South Sudan’s main armed opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has asked the People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA) to avoid blaming ‘everybody’ in Juba over the delays and failures in the implementation of the peace agreement.
This comes after the PCCA said in a statement marking two years since the formation of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGONU) that President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his first deputy Dr. Riek Machar Teny are not working together in in good faith for the implementation of the peace agreement saying everyone is working against the other.
This, the group said, makes it difficult for the main signatories of the revitalized peace agreement to implement the peace agreement which has seen setbacks in the implementation of many of its most important provisions such as the security arrangements which calls for the reunification of the rival forces.
The PCCA said “the Revitalized Government of National Unity is neither national nor united; it is hardly a government … This is a government of warlords who have held our country hostage to their insatiable hunger for power and money in total disregard to the welfare of citizens.”
The protest organizer added that the “presidency is not coherent; everyone is working against all the others. It has become a gossiping parlor, trading accusations about which citizen is in whose camp. They have lost track of their main purpose in office: the welfare of the people of South Sudan and nation building.”
Speaking to Sudans Post this morning, Dut Majokdit, SPLM-IO member of National Liberation Council (NLC) and close ally to First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny said, the People’s Coalition for Civil Action should not blame both sides of the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement because the SPLM-IO presence in Juba indicates Machar’s commitment to the peace implementation.
“First of all, the ‘blame-both-sides’ strategy being used by the PCCA is not right. The SPLM-IO has been in Juba since 2019 and this indicates that we are committed to the implementation of the peace agreement and the PCCA should not blame the opposition for the delays in the implementation of the agreement,” Majokdit said.
“We recognize their concerns, but they should also understand that the implementation of the peace agreement largely lies in the hand of the other signatory which is controlling everything including the resources to fund the implementation of the agreement. My message to them is that don’t blame everybody in Juba,” he added.
