Yakani welcomes graduation of peace forces in Unity State, urges immediate deployment

JUBA – The Executive Director of Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) Edmund Yakani has welcomed the graduation of the unified forces in Unity State and urged to the peace parties to commence as soon as possible the deployment of forces to enhance security across the country.

The call by the prominent activist comes a day after the peace parties graduated at least 1366 soldiers of the unified forces at Muom training center in southern Unity State’s Leer County, which had witnessed grim killings of innocent civilians earlier this year, according to the United Nations.

The graduation of forces in Unity State also came a few days following graduation of thousands of forces in Western Bahr el Ghazal’s capital Wau.

Speaking to Sudans Post this evening, Yakani who has previously called for speedy graduation of forces welcomed the latest graduation and called on the peace parties to commence the deployment of the forces across the country.

“The Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) welcomes and appreciates the graduation of the Necessary Unified Forces in Muom training center in Leer County of Unity State,” the prominent activist said.

“This is a very motivating step by the parties and we urge the parties to continue the spirit of this rapid graduation of the unified forces and we call on them to commence, as soon as possible, the deployment of forces to provide security to our citizens,” he added.

Senior government officials including the presidential security advisor Tut Gatluak is expected to travel to Upper Nile State’s capital Malakal this week for graduation of forces there, according to senior government and opposition officials alike.

There is a huge number of forces in Upper Nile region awaiting graduation after which the parties will then deploy the forces and commence the training and cantonment of the second batch of the peace forces across the world’s youngest country.