The opposition leader Lam Akol told a public address on Saturday in Juba that: “SPLM has never delinked itself from the SPLA, the national army of South Sudan. Its leaders continued to retain military ranks and some of them continued to have followers in the army. This helps to explain why a dispute in the SPLM could lead to the rift in the SPLA and engulf the country in this bloody conflict”
The during the interim period and after the independence, attempts to professionalise the former rebel guerrilla have failed due to the
emergence of different insurgencies and the need to integrate those who signed peace agreements into the “national army” which remained strongly divided.
The opposition leader made the remarks at a public gathering where he expressed the position of his party on the current armed conflict and ways it could resolved, stressing on the need for a cessation of hostilities.
“Hunger is looming and threatens to extend to next year as we are about to miss the rainy season. Therefore, stopping this senseless war and the attainment of peace is the priority to which all of us should pay undivided attention,” Akol emphasised.
He further pointed out that there can be no winner in such conflict but more destruction and death among South Sudanese
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