South Sudan activists accuse ‘government agents’ of faking letter alleging cancellation of protests

JUBA – South Sudan’s Peoples Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA) which is organizing anti-government protests tomorrow has accusing “government agents” of faking a letter in which the protest group has purportedly cancelled the National Awakening Day which is scheduled for tomorrow morning.

The PCCA is expected to ask the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny to leave power accusing the two leaders of failing to achieve South Sudanese aspirations which the leaders promised to respect during the liberation struggle.

“The People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA) has learned with dismay this evening, that government agents have issued a fake statement announcing the postponement of the demonstrations tomorrow,” the activists said in the statement extended to Sudans Post.

The statement said the letter is fake and reiterated the intention of the group to go on with protests tomorrow despite government intimidation in which senior government officials have threatened to use live ammunition against anyone who would go out to protest against the government tomorrow.

“This document is fake, the demonstrations are happening tomorrow all-over South Sudan and shall continue until the demands of the people are met. A state that is bankrupt in moral leadership resorts to propagation of lies and intimidation to try to keep itself alive,” the statement said,” the statement said.

“The people of South Sudan have demonstrated over the last four weeks that they have withdrawn their confidence in President Kiir, Riek Machar and their government. We urge the people of South Sudan to disregard these fake government- sponsored messages attempting to prevent people’s participation in the popular uprising against a government that has lost all legitimacy and credibility,” it added.

It further said tomorrow will be “a defining moment when the truth shall square up with the guns and the truth is with the people of South Sudan.”