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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A senior official in the Office of First Vice President Riek Machar has demanded a formal apology from Kuol Manyang Juuk, Senior Advisor to President Salva Kiir and Chairperson of the High-Level Ad Hoc Committee and the National Transitional Committee, following remarks he made regarding the prolonged detention of the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) leader.<\/p>\n

Machar was arrested in March this year after the White Army, a community militia in Upper Nile State, overran an army barracks and killed South Sudan People\u2019s Defence Forces (SSPDF) commander Major General Majur Dak, along with 27 soldiers, during a United Nations-led evacuation operation.<\/p>\n

Authorities accused Machar of orchestrating the attack to incite rebellion. \u201cDr. Riek Machar was arrested because he is charged, accused of being in conflict with the law,\u201d Michael Makuei, Minister of Information, Communication Technology and Postal Services, said during a press briefing in Juba on March 28, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the beginning of March 2025, and according to our intelligence and security reports, Dr. Riek Machar\u2014First Vice President and Commander-in-Chief of the SPLM\/A-IO\u2014has been in contact with his people and his bases. As a result of these contacts, a lot of incidents occurred within the month of March,\u201d Makuei added.<\/p>\n

Manyang echoed this position in an interview with state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, insisting Machar\u2019s arrest was based on criminal, not political, grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the issue of Dr. Riek [First Vice President], I said that procedures are underway. It\u2019s not a political detention, but a criminal one, and this is the normal procedure when someone is suspected of a crime,\u201d Manyang said, as quoted by Eye Radio.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s connected to the deaths of the soldiers in Nasir and fighting in other areas. This is how we explained the situation to them [the AU delegation],\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

His remarks, made during an engagement with an African Union delegation on a peace mission, prompted a swift response from Gordon Yien Gordon, Deputy Press Secretary in Machar\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe SPLM\/SPLA-IO demands an apology from Kuol Manyang Juuk for his irresponsible and hateful statement towards the First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, and calls for the unconditional and total freedom of the peacemaker, Dr. Machar,\u201d Yien said.<\/p>\n

Machar\u2019s detention has for months drawn criticism from civil society and the international community, with calls for his release to protect the fragile 2018 peace agreement from collapse.<\/p>\n

Oyet Nathaniel Pierino, the SPLM-IO Acting Chairman, termed the detention \u201ctribal and ethnically motivated\u201d, dismissing Manyang\u2019s remarks that the detention was not politically motivated.<\/p>\n

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