Africa-Press – South-Sudan. At least 12 members of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) have declared their intention to join the SPLA-IO faction under General Simon Gatwech Dual, according to a statement extended to Sudans Post.
The group led by Gach Pal, an assistant to the SPLM Secretary General, said Machar “Has betrayed the national interest by compromising key provisions of the 2018 Revitalized peace agreement, particularly the Security arrangements, and by ingeniously surrendering SPLM-IO to the SPLM-IG without championing the desired cause of the struggle.”
Below is their full-text statement.
We, the undersigned members of SPLM-IO in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 19 September 2021, held a virtual meeting in which we resolved to announce our firm endorsement of the historic Kit-Gwang Declaration of August 4, 2021, under the leadership of 1st Lt. Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual, being the legitimate Interim Chairman of SPLM-IO and Interim Commander-in-chief of SPLA-IO.
The members resolved to endorse the Kit-Gwang Declaration due to the following reasons: Owing to the above reasons, we, the twelve members of SPLM-IO as named hereunder, do hereby today, 19th September 2021, announce our endorsement of and our allegiance to the Kit-Gwang Declaration under the interim leadership of 1st Lt. Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual and Lt. Gen. Johnson Olony Thabo.
