Furious Unity State governor suspends SPLM-IO commissioner of Panyijiar

JUBA – The governor of South Sudan’s Unity State Joseph Manytuil Wijang has issued a gubernatorial decree from the nation’s capital Juba where he is being kept by the president suspending the SPLM-IO commissioner of Panyijiar.

“Governor Manytuil has issued gubernatorial decrees for the suspension of Gabriel Majiok Bol as Panyijiar County Commissioner,” the governor’s office said in a statement extended to Sudans Post on Tuesday evening.

The suspension comes days after senior officials of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IG) faction accused the commissioner of deporting dozens of their members including the SPLM-IG chairperson in Panyijiar County.

The commissioner who is a member of the main armed opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny denied the claim and said the SPLM officials were distributing uniforms to schoolchildren which he said is against the law.

SPLM DETAINEES RELEASED

In an interview with Radio Tamazuj on Tuesday, the Panyijiar County educational director William Nyak Buom Gatluak said he and four others who have been in detention were released Friday by the commissioner.

“On 23 October, we were arrested by the county commissioner of Panyijiar and fortunately we were released on Friday 29th October and I am among those released,” said Nyak.

“We are five members of SPLM IG. We were detained in unknown locations in Panyijiar County. We are the five people and we have been released officially,” the senior local official added.