Sudan’s NISS says government keen to support its troops
December 16, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) said the government attaches great importance to train and develop its forces in order to maintain peace and stability and defend the country against any possible attacks.
The parade arrived at the NISS’s headquarters of the military operations in Khartoum on Wednesday morning.
NISS’s deputy director, Khalaf Allah Ibrahim, who addressed the parade upon arrival, said the government is keen to keep NISS’s forces in a permanent state of readiness to protect peace and stability and defend the country against any attacks.
He pointed out that the military parade represents one of the means to build up the troops’ capabilities and keep them at a high state of preparedness.
Ibrahim added that NISS troops and the other regular forces had earlier pledged to protect the national dialogue, saying they are also ready to secure its outcome and gains.
He noted that training and development of the NISS troops comes within the framework of their commitment to support peace and dialogue in the country.
For his part, NISS’s director of operations Ali al-Nasih al-Galla underscored the success of the parade, saying the training unit is keen to raise the capabilities of the forces and keep them on high alert.
“NISS leadership would make every possible effort to develop the entire units of the NISS in order to allow it carry out its responsibilities in protecting the country and peace and stability and defending the homeland and the honour of [its people],” he said.
Earlier this year, lawmakers approved several constitutional amendments introduced by the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) including one that allowed NISS to have an army of its own.
The move which drew fierce rebuke from opposition parties on the grounds that it undermines the role of the army and defeats the purpose of the agency which is tasked mainly with collecting intelligence and analysing it.
(ST)