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This comes just days after First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny and Vice-President for Gender and Youth Cluster Rebecca Garang, said there was no need for elections before completion of the implementation of the security arrangements provided for in the revitalized peace agreement.
While speaking during the opening session of the country’s 5th Governors’ Forum in Juba on Tuesday, Machar said elections should not take place in 2023 if the pending peace tasks provided for in the revitalized peace agreement are not implemented saying that will affect the question of whether the elections is to be held.
“To have fair, free, transparent elections, you must have security forces who will protect the state, its people and not interfere in the election processes. And therefore, it is critical [that] if we are going to go for elections, [then] we must complete in the shortest possible time, the security arrangements,” Machar told the forum.
“I believe why our refugees are not coming is because we have not moved forward on the security arrangements. Once they know we have moved forward in the security arrangements, they will come [home],” Machar added.
For her part, VP Garang said the world’s youngest country should not hold elections until when transitional tasks such as the return of refugees, making of the permanent constitution and national reconciliation are completed by the unity government and this is, according to her, to have credible and inclusive elections.
“You cannot prepare for elections before we bring our people from refugee camps, and our people in displaced people’s camps to be settled is great work. We have been pressured by host countries who are hosting our refugees, by next year they do not want to see our people in their countries and I want you the governors to know this,” she said.
“We will prepare ourselves early next year so that there is a committee which will be formed by us, UNHCR, and all our partners so that we can visit those host countries where our refugees are,” she added.
But President Salva Kiir is now saying that elections will take place despite what the politicians say pointing out that the forum itself was convened to discuss the challenges that may result in the postponement of elections.
“The people will decide, and it is on this basis that the elections will take place despite or regardless of what politicians say. For them, this is what is in the agreement, elections should be held at the end of the transitional period. This is why there are arrangements and the reason I keep asking others to start the screening process of their forces so that there is a unified command and forces to allow necessary arrangements as stipulated in the agreement to be met,” Kiir said.
“I have not seen the report because the conference is still ongoing, but I have heard what others said. What they are citing as the reasons which could affect other arrangements, including the conduct of elections, are the issues that can be resolved and that is the reason this conference was convened,” he stressed.
“It is to allow all the leaders, all the governors, relevant ministers, institutions and mechanisms in the peace agreement, vice presidents, advisers, and all the stakeholders to come up with ideas that could be used to address the challenges being faced in the implementation of the peace agreement. So, regardless of what Machar and others say, elections will happen,” the South Sudanese leader concludes.
I don’t trusted all of them. Dr. Riek Machar Teny is Making the unification so gimmick because one and everyone has own separate Army and supposedly, the politicians should not support violence. South Sudan nation will not be stabilizing because of too many militias being supporting by those politicians and I will not trust what they’re talking about election.
Mr. Aduol Liet,
Duɔn kɔn diër wän määth (don’t you worry brother), the owners have taken back their country. ‘wen (gat) Machar was no one’, he was a terrorist, yes, your 100% concerns are prefect, Mr. Salva Kiir Mayardit had let our country and our people be bullied by criminals here in the region, of our IGAD, the African Union (the AU), and their masters in the US, the UK, Their gulf Arab states financiers, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, their UN, their sleazy NGOs, UNMISS of Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Nepalese, Sri Lankans, Rwandans, Nigerians, white English people, white Americans and other piece of piece of trashes on this planet earth. Mr. Greater Bhar El Gazelles, don;t have problem their. But Here in Jonglei and greater Upper we have a lot problems. Our Nuers ke Nyantoc and Shilluks (Chollos) low lives UN are our real big problems. We are going to bomb the vermins/parasites/viuruses out of out of our country anyway. But have to first of all, informed the evils, to get their damned *their UN project of UN and NGOs out of our country and over people, in peace before we touch them, let any piece any South Sudanese piece of trash, ever ever again bring anything connected evil white Americans,white English people, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, our cloned so-called Arabs of North Sudan, Abeshas (so-called ethiopians) prostitutes, some Bantuses, gulf Arab states terrorists, society of Jesuits, Roman catholic church, Anglican church, Episcopal church (their CIA—-Mr. Mark Nickle was brought here to South Sudan by US——-we killed him), he even learned the Dinka/Muonyjaang language. Learning other people languages is not a bad idea, there an English boy. Archdeacon Archibald Shaw
He used to come here to Bor Dinka/muonyjaang local courts, he learned the Bor Dinkas/Muonyjiengs dialect than even some of our low lives. Malek School at the Eastern of the Nile, Archdeacon Archibald Shaw, used to come come tell Kolyang (when the Nile over its banks, the nyang (Crocodile) think, they also follow waters, but waters recede to Nile Rivers and its tributaries, then crocodiles are stranded. The MuonyjaanfJaang/Jenges/Dinkas called it ‘Kolnyang’ Mac Deng (Baidit Mr. Abel Alier village)—-Mac in ‘fire’ Deng (Rain).
Dinkas of the Sudan and Egypt, Deŋ [Deng] means ‘rain God’. we respect our women, Adeng/Nyandeng means rain Goddess, Garang is a woman protector, Col [chol has a lot meanings in Muonyjaang/Jaangs/Jenges/Dinkas, Nuers, Shilliuks (Chollos), Chol, means payback, Women, as I said, Achol, born after after the first one died, so Chol/Achol God pays back. All the Your own are our cattle, Mabiör/Yär/ Amëër and so on, are all our cattle names, we are the Egyptian low lives, Akɔn, after Elephant, when a baby is born when the Elephants are near by, then, he would be named Akɔn, Anyaar, Buffaloes, not like Asian buffaloes though, Kuac, leopards, they are very dangerous, some of them don’t to go to the plains and to play games with, thiaŋ (wildebeest), ŋɛ̈ɛ̈r (antelopes), they like to next South Sudan villages, you let you be distracted, the leopards, goat or sheep try to haul onto try, if you try to chase it, it will out you. These days the South Sudanese authorities, they should not be killed we, that we have to share South Sudan with them.
But tell that to an angry South Sudanese, whose goat or sheep had been by a leopard. Elephants don’t give damb about Dinkas/Muonyjaangs, at the end this month, they will cross the NIle and to ‘toc, sudd’, South Sudan cattle will also cross the Nile. Even crocodiles kill our cattle and sometimes, our people, but crocodiles don’t mess around with Elephants, if the they try, then will are just carried to the Nile banks and crushed and elephants get away with with it. The Elephants even kill our cattle in ‘toc (Sudd)’
The so-called Elephant grass here in South Sudan, if you bump into Elephants when they don’t know, they will kill you. But when the elephants know you are there and not their threat, they will just leave you alone and eat their grass and get