NCP preaches unity in South Sudan’s Yambio
October 12, 2010 (YAMBIO) – A high level delegation headed by Fateh Izadin from Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) arrived in Yambio on Monday October 11, 2010 and was received by the WES State NCP Chairman, Awad Saidy Kisanga.
Tensions are rising in the south ahead of a referendum on southern independence due in January.
The vote is part of a 2005 peace deal between the NCP and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM), which ended two decades of conflict between the mainly Muslim and Arab-speaking north and the south, which follows Christian and tradition beliefs.
Upon arrival, Fateh said that the “NCP visit was to brainstorm and discuss the referendum as the co-signatories to the 2005 landmark peace deal.”
He stated that, “unity will be the best option to boost the development of the country further.”
While the SPLM has increasingly indicated that it is in favour of seceding and forming a new nation, the NCP is strongly in favour of unity.
“It is high time to discuss the benefits of the two options being it unity or secession of the country,” added Fateh.
“As the Political figure in the Khartoum State, the biggest state in the Sudan, hosting over 1 Million Southern Sudanese, no Southern Sudanese will be intimidated despite the outcome of the Referendum.”
Deputy Governor of WES Sapana Abui who is the chairman of State Referendum Committee said that it was “fair” for all parties to have to opportunity talk about the referendum.
Abui said that he hopes, “the referendum shall be conducted as stipulated in the 2005 peace accord”.
He urged the delegations to feel at home in the state while sharing their messages about the referendum.
The SPLM State Secretary, Manasseh Deboi Agoli, was not so welcoming. He condemned the NCP’s visit saying “it has brought bad image and negative impact on the NCP.”
Manasseh said that, it was too late for NCP to make unity attractive in the south because since the signing of the CPA, the NCP has confined themselves in the national capital, Khartoum.
The position of the SPLM in the state was not to harass pro-unity advocates, unlike the treatment that a pro-separation received in Khartoum on Saturday.
Clashes erupted between pro-unity supporters and pro-southern Sudan independence in Khartoum when a small group of Southerners demonstrated calling for separation during a pro-unity rally.
The Referendum Act state that everybody is free to talk on the benefits of the two options, without intimidations.
Manasseh urged the delegation to tell President Omer Hassan al-Bashir that, “NCP has failed to make unity attractive in Sudan; therefore separation is the only option for total peace and freedom for southerners in 2011.”
Deputy Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly, Stephen Elisa Kayanga said “should southern Sudan votes for unity that means the Christians will be imposed with the Sharia Law of the Muslims, returning life back to square one”.
“We have tried unity several times up to CPA era, all developments are in the northern Sudan […] why not try separation this time?,” he said.
Under the peace deal 50% of revenues from oil from the south should go to the southern government. Kiyanga alleged that the south was only receiving 24%.
Kayanga predicted that, “as southern Sudanese, [we] need good relationships with other countries after our separation. No war will occur between southern Sudan and northern Sudan.”
The delegation comprised of seven members spent one hour in Yambio before returning to Juba listening to concerns raised by citizens in Western Equatoria over the issues of the upcoming referendum and the apparent readiness of the south to vote for separation.
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Butrus Ajak.
NCP preaches unity in South Sudan’s Yambio
Arabs don’t read between lines. Are they being silly or they seem to be sarcastic? NCP Delegation preaching unity at this time!!! They need to forget it.
jur_likang_a_ likan'g
NCP preaches unity in South Sudan’s Yambio
It is good when the truth is spelt right in black and white. Our leaders in Yambio has spoken the unspoken. It is now time to start planning for what our millions have died for. Thank you West Equatoria. We cannot forget the torch Gbadue, late Samuel Abujohn, Phillip Angutua, Gbutala and many others more have done to all of us South Sudanese.
Kideopo Boy
NCP preaches unity in South Sudan’s Yambio
NCP preaches for Unity in Yambio! This is really the tactics of NCP (National Criminals Party). They just went to Yambio not to preach unity but to meet their National Criminals Party members who are roaming in WES plus LRA of Joseph Konyi.
If the NCP was serious about make unity attractive, they were to tell LRA Konyi to quite Southern Sudan soil especially Western Equatoria. Because LRA commanders are protected by the NCP. Who made Joseph Konyi to refuse to come to Juba to sign the peace deal being mediated by our Ist Presdient of GOSS Dr Riak Machar? NCP were part of this failure.
Let’s all wait for the refrendum with NCP or without them.
Thondet Manyang
NCP preaches unity in South Sudan’s Yambio
Dear Southerners,
Lets be one and stand strong and we will be free from this slavery. Therefore I advise no body should stop them from their empty promises, but our community should know what the future means. Since they (Arab/NCP) are trying to collide us (Southerners) to look each other as an enemy of South which is not true. We must have our vision which Separates us from this regime of Khartoum. I know that they (NCP) select only primitives people saying that they are their members to confuse them and complicate the whole process which is clear to everybody. intellectuals of Yambio didn’t attend that rally i am sure.
Leave them alone and truth will come. God help us!!!!!!!
okucu pa lotinokwan
NCP preaches unity in South Sudan’s Yambio
Please, you who are still pro NCP (National Criminal Party)stop making noise in yambio nothing will come out it better go back and tell your master that we fail to convince them.
OKUCU PA LOTINOKWAN