South Sudan: More SPLM-IO members defects
South Sudan’s First Vice-president designate, Dr. Riek Machar, is pictured during an interview with Reuters in Rome, Italy, April 12, 2019. (Photo credit: REUTERS/Yara Nardi).
May 12, 2020 (SSNN) – Barely a month after senior members of the SPLM-IO declared that they were defecting to president Salva Kiir’s side, another group is saying that it has defected again accusing Dr. Riek Machar of nepotism and lost of vision.
The group of nine little know members led by Gen. Joseph Ruot Nyieny,
said their decision to abandon the SPLM-IO was effective from today.
They said they will support the leadership of president Salva Kiir via General Koang Chuol Ranley and Dak Duop Bichiok who both defected in February and April, respectively.
“We as SPLM-IO members in Khartoum, Sudan, have decided and concluded to abandon the SPLM/A-IO movement under the leadership of Riek Machar Teny and switched our political support to the leadership [of] Hon. Dak Duop Bichiok & Cdr Gen. James kaong Chuol ranley,” they said in a statement seen by South Sudan News Now.
“The defection reasons are many but herein this statement we would like to highlight some important points.” They said.
The group said they were defecting because of nepotism, lack of transparency, poor system of governance and the control by Machar of the movement’s overall political activities.
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