A Call on all Opposition forces to Join hands for Alternative People’s NADAFA Government based on Three Regions

February 16, 2019 Newsbeat, Press Releases

Feb 15, 2019(SSNN) — We call upon and urge all the opposition political forces to join hands with us for an alternative Peoples’ NADAFA Government in South Sudan; by the people and for the people based on the well-known three regions of Greater Bahr El Ghazal, Greater Equatoria and Greater Upper Nile.

As all opposition forces in South Sudan have known so far, President Salva Kiir Mayardit admitted that the current R-ARCSS is a bad agreement and that he nonetheless signed it, apparently to stop the suffering of the people. Yet the UN Refugee Agency (UHCR) reported on Tuesday 12 February 2019 that an estimated new 5,000 refugees crossed South Sudan borders to Congo and another 8,000 are now internally displaced fleeing clashes between government forces and NAS opposition forces in Panyume in Yei of Central Equatoria. This is clearly an aggression by the government forces and it constitutes a flagrant violation of the December 2017 Cession of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA).

Similarly as in the ARCSS 2015, President Salva Kiir has repeatedly failed to observe the CoHA and is consistently showing lack of political will to respect any agreements he signed, and called R-ARCSS a bad agreement. The President is also refusing to renegotiate this bad agreement with the R-ARCSS non-signatories to make it work for the people and not for the President who is the first to violate it with impunity. The recent unfortunate statements resonate with his remarks in Juba in September 12, 2015 expressing reservations about ARCSS; that the peace agreement “is neither a Holy Bible nor a Koran and should be opened up for negotiations”. Indeed President Kiir later opened it up by starting another war.

The Peoples’ alliance, NADAFA urgently calls on all the opposition political forces in the country to unite for an alternative Peoples NADAFA Government that will be based on three regions for our country to end SPLM impunity and rewrite the R-ARCSS agreement to make it work for the country and put not the elites but the people first.

There is now urgent need for all opposition groups consultations about this bad agreement, that President Kiir violated in letter and spirit, and starved it of funds for implementing the pre-transitional mechanisms of the bad agreement.

Peoples NADAFA Government for South Sudan is the alternative way forward in place of the collapsing and bad R-ARCSS

Copies:

CC: H.E.Ambassador. Ismail Wais, IGAD Special Envoy to South Sudan

CC: President Salva Kiir Mayardit, Head of TGONU, SPLM-IG

CC: Hon. Agelo Beda, Co-Chair of The National Dialogue Committee

CC: Dr. Riek Machar Teny, Chairman and C-in-C, SPLM-IO

CC: Mr. Peter Gatdet Yak, Chairman, South Sudan Opposition Alliance SSOA

CC: Dr. Kwaje Lasu, South Sudan National Democratic Alliance SSNDA

CC: Mr. Deng Alor Kuol, Representative SPLM-FDs

CC: Mr. Peter Mayen, Other Political Parties, OPP

CC: H.E. Ambassador Lt. Gen. Augostino Njoroge, Interim Chairperson RJMEC,

CC: H.Es. Ambassador Chris Trott, Ambassador Erling Skjønsberg,,TROIKA