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“The Office of the First Vice President would like to categorically deny the false information that [….] H.E. President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, had broken the deadlock over the Republican Decree and Republican Order issued by the President on March 3rd, 2023, in which he unilaterally removed the Minister of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Hon. Angelina Teny, and swapped the Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs with the Ministry of Interior,” it said.
“In that regard, we would like to underline that no breakthrough was achieved at any of the meetings between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon to resolve the current deadlock. We, therefore, would like to urge our members, supporters, and the Public at large not to succumb to this fake news,” it added.
Kiir in March this year issued a controversial decree sacking Angelina Teny from the ministry of defense. He then issued another decree taking away the ministry from SPLM-IO and giving the group ministry of interior in return.
The SPLM-IO has written to the regional bloc, IGAD, demanding that the presidential decrees be revoked because it violates the revitalized peace agreement.
Based on the revitalized peace agreement, Kiir and Machar, as well as other groups, shall share power by appointing officials to senior government positions. According to the deal, each party shall nominate its officials to positions allocated to it, but the final appointing authority shall be the president who will however have no power to remove without prior consultations and consent of the nominating party.
This morning however, social media users circulated speculations that Machar and Kiir have resolved the dispute over the feud. But in a statement seen by Sudans Post, Machar’s office denied the claim and said that the disagreement remains.
I think on my own, it was made to intensified problem any more between Machar and Salva Kiir side. For those who were advising president Salva to swapped the couples of Ministry, Defense and Interior, that issue was a bomb and aiming to create problems once more Machar and Salva Kiir` s wing side, the main leading partner in concern to revitalized peace agreement. Now, that social media platform of today reported the issue to be resolved is also an intensifying the matter, reason being if the issue wasn’t resolved, then why Machar is keeping quite all along? When you people signed revitalized accords, it was in concern to the development and transforming South Sudan image and it’s people and not battering each other again and again. If you accept these people who are trying to push you to another war in Juba, then on my thinking capacity indicates that South Sudan will settled again and will be a ground for war and hunting as Prof. Lobumba quoted some years back from now. The Ministry of foreign affairs is vacant, you give it to Machar and his party such that they remains silence without causing another problem in Juba. Beside that, you people nullified the issue of Rome and let them also joins you in that national cakes and from there, we might have rescued ourselves from dangers of collapsing militarly and economically.
The commentator is an independent Journalist and associates Lawyer.