‘Ruling party hampers eastern Sudan peace accord’
The ruling National Congress Party is “deliberately obstructing the implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement” according to the political secretary of the eastern Sudanese rebel Popular Front for Liberation and Justice (PFLJ). He also accused high-ranking Sudanese officials of being involved in arms trade and human trafficking in eastern Sudan. “The Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA) can be considered as a failure from the start, because it relied on tribal quotas, El Amin Daoud, PFLJ’s political secretary told Radio Dabanga on Friday. “Moreover, the National Congress Party (NCP) has been and still is deliberately hampering the implementation of the agreement by taking advantage of the differences among the eastern Sudanese leaders”. The ESPA was signed by the Eastern Front, an alliance of eastern Sudanese opposition groups, and the Sudanese government in October 2006. Three Eastern Front leaders were appointed as Assistant to the President. “The ESPA contains three protocols: about power sharing, wealth sharing, and security arrangements,” Daoud explained. The contents are supposed to be incorporated in the Sudanese Constitution, but nothing of that happened. The wealth sharing protocol has been restricted to the establishment of the Eastern Sudan Reconstruction and Development Fund, which”, he stressed, “does not serve the purposes of the eastern people, but those of the NCP.” “On behalf of this Reconstruction Fund, the ruling regime in Khartoum is begging from the world for more input, only to achieve its own purposes. Until now, the Fund has only slightly contributed to the reconstruction of what was destroyed by the war. For instance, the people in the southern part of Toker locality still do not have wells. In fact, the provision of clean drinking water is problematic in the entire Red Sea State.” “The Sudanese government managed to extend oil pipelines from South Sudan to Port Sudan, but failed to deliver water to the thirsty in Red Sea State,” Daoud noted. The political secretary of the PFLJ added that the situation in eastern Sudan has worsened significantly owing to the trade in weapons and human trafficking. “High-ranking officials from the NCP, the security apparatus, the Islamic movement, and also some federal ministers are involved in these crimes.” File photo: Sorghum farmers in Toker locality (Adroub.net) Related:Eastern Sudan ex-combatants ‘lose confidence’ in leaders (19 September 2014)‘Eastern Sudan Reconstruction and Development Fund does not work’: MP (22 June 2014)
The ruling National Congress Party is “deliberately obstructing the implementation of the Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement” according to the political secretary of the eastern Sudanese rebel Popular Front for Liberation and Justice (PFLJ). He also accused high-ranking Sudanese officials of being involved in arms trade and human trafficking in eastern Sudan.
“The Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA) can be considered as a failure from the start, because it relied on tribal quotas, El Amin Daoud, PFLJ’s political secretary told Radio Dabanga on Friday. “Moreover, the National Congress Party (NCP) has been and still is deliberately hampering the implementation of the agreement by taking advantage of the differences among the eastern Sudanese leaders”.
The ESPA was signed by the Eastern Front, an alliance of eastern Sudanese opposition groups, and the Sudanese government in October 2006. Three Eastern Front leaders were appointed as Assistant to the President.
“The ESPA contains three protocols: about power sharing, wealth sharing, and security arrangements,” Daoud explained. The contents are supposed to be incorporated in the Sudanese Constitution, but nothing of that happened. The wealth sharing protocol has been restricted to the establishment of the Eastern Sudan Reconstruction and Development Fund, which”, he stressed, “does not serve the purposes of the eastern people, but those of the NCP.”
“On behalf of this Reconstruction Fund, the ruling regime in Khartoum is begging from the world for more input, only to achieve its own purposes. Until now, the Fund has only slightly contributed to the reconstruction of what was destroyed by the war. For instance, the people in the southern part of Toker locality still do not have wells. In fact, the provision of clean drinking water is problematic in the entire Red Sea State.”
“The Sudanese government managed to extend oil pipelines from South Sudan to Port Sudan, but failed to deliver water to the thirsty in Red Sea State,” Daoud noted.
The political secretary of the PFLJ added that the situation in eastern Sudan has worsened significantly owing to the trade in weapons and human trafficking. “High-ranking officials from the NCP, the security apparatus, the Islamic movement, and also some federal ministers are involved in these crimes.”
File photo: Sorghum farmers in Toker locality (Adroub.net)
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