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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span> <\/b> A member of parliament in South Sudan\u2019s Western Equatoria State has announced his defection from the ruling Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IG) party under President Salva Kiir.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a welcoming ceremony at the SPLM-IO headquarters in the state capital Yambio, Torosa Elia who was also the head of the SPLM Youth League in Western Equatoria said he decided to leave Kiir\u2019s party and joined the opposition Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) over corruption.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is next for me after joining SPLM-IO, we want to make a concrete way to organize ourselves. I want to promise you as I joined IO, I am going to be a politician full of discipline, I have realized that its only in SPLM-IO that I can excise my discipline and execute my work very well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The now-opposition member further promised to work hard to mobilize young people to join his new party.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also promise that I will genuinely get into political work and mobilized youth for you because am an influential figure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For her part, the deputy chairperson of the SPLM-IO Youth League in Western Equatoria Elizabeth Gipson Ndoro welcomed the defection of the state member of parliament and described him as an important asset in the mobilization of citizens to join the group in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are standing firm for peace we don\u2019t want war neither discrimination. SPLM-IO is for peace, love and development,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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