Sudan: Wad Madani Resistance Committees defy dissolution order

The Wad Madani Resistance Committees have rejected the state governor’s decision to dissolve all grassroots committees in El Gezira, vowing to continue to work towards rebuilding the state and providing essential aid.

In a statement yesterday, the Wad Madani Resistance Committees, operating in the capital of El Gezira, fully rejected the authorities’ decision to ban all grassroot service committees in the state, saying the decision was “not worth the price of the ink with which it was written”.

Fully dismissing the decision, the statement says: “We will continue our work to restore and rebuild our state in the best interest of the Sudanese people.

The “unjustified and malicious” measure “constitutes a systematic targeting of committee members active in providing much-needed humanitarian aid in Wad Madani”, the committee asserted.

“We express our full solidarity with resistance committees in all states as popular, revolutionary, civil organisations, with their own fixed and declared political positions and visions. They were neither formed by an authority order, nor should they be dissolved by such an order.”

As previously reported by Radio Dabanga, the acting Minister of Federal Governance in Port Sudan issued a decree on January 16 banning all grassroots committees in the country that have been set up during the revolution or later, during the war, to help out people in need.

Lamenting the “shameful” withdrawal of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) garrison in Wad Madani, “leaving it an easy prey in the mouth of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)”, the resistance committees demand the governor be “investigated, along with the commanders of the 1st Infantry Division, for their disavowal of their duties to protect the population of El Gezira”.