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General John Both Teny is a senior member of the SPLA-IO who has been loyal to First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny since the formation of the main armed opposition group following the outbreak of conflict in Juba in December 2013.
Gen. Both replaces Gen. Yak Dayiem who was appointed as interim commander of sector one commander in August 2021 following the defection of General Johnson Olony Thabo who joined General Simon Gatwech Dual following the SPLM-IO split on August 3rd.
Speaking to Sudans Post this morning, a senior South Sudan army officer who is informed of the changes told Sudans Post that Gen. John Both Teny is the new sector one commander in Upper Nile state, effective March 2nd 2022.
“This is to confirm that the Chairman and Commander in Chief of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA-IO) Dr. Riek Machar Teny has appointed General John Both Teny as the commander of sector one of the SPLA-IO in Upper Nile state,” the office told Sudans Post on condition of anonymity in Juba.\
“This is because General Yak Dayiem was appointed during tough times when our leadership needed a quick decision to choose someone to prevent troops from deserting their bases in the wake of the Kitgwang declaration which has now joined the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces,” the officer added.
“BREAKING | Machar assigns Gen. Both Teny as sector 1 commander replacing Olony”
You better first of all have platoon, before you talk of division to a sign a commander to lead them. Our Nuers, your messy and child-like lifestyles and has dragging us for so long. Your damned gat is dead long time in Juba 2016. Bring another Nuer, your magician, Mr. Ngundeng Buong, white Americans, English people, Arabs, Abeshas prostitutes, evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dog, Bantuses, the UN, their shifty NGOs, UNMISS, Nigerians, Rwandans, Indian, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis or Sri Lankans, Italians, evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, Portuguese into our country and over our people ever ever again in the UN NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BORDERS, GOVERNMENT RUN BY FOREIGNERS, GOVERNMENT RUN With donated money beg around. Any South Sudanese who white people shout pack up his/her luggage and go and live with white man/woman. Pure HATRED and RACISM lurk. We are the ancient Egyptians. We are revengeful people. Many countries always used our country and our people as their only way of making a living of them. And it has becomes a new normal to them. But scores, are going to settled.
Our low lives want to let other people be the ones who do everything heavy lifting for everyone. The world doesn’t rotate that way.