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South Sudan Kiir insists on secession, warns of assassination
October 5th, 2010 at 11:15 am

By Mabior Philip, Correspondent

Juba, Sudan (Borglobe) ..... The First Vice President of Sudan and President of the Government of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir, has reiterated his favor of secession option for Southern Sudan in a “decolonization” vote slated for early next year and warned that irritated oppressors would wish to eliminate leaders of the struggling people.

He said five years have gone; the central government in Khartoum was supposed to build schools, hospitals and so far nothing has materialized; instead threats of war are eminent.

“When they talked about unity before the campaigns for referendum, is it a mistake? I will continue to say, is it a crime? Instead of implementing the agreement you are bogged down in fighting”, Kiir said yesterday at the opening of a Church and Government Forum at Nyakuron Cultural Center in Juba.

His statements came days after some voices in the National Congress Party called upon him to withdraw pro-secession utterances he made during a rally at Garang’s Mausoleum following his arrival from Washington, where he led a Sudanese delegation for a high profile United Nations Security Council meeting on Sudan.

Northern unionists said he was betraying unity of the country against the 2005 peace deal, but Kiir downplayed the claim, saying “I am not betraying it, I am telling the truth that we have failed in the course”.

He slammed circles in the north who say that Junubin have already made a decision and should not waste resources on attractive unity projects. When they are joined on letting the south go they turn out to say no.

At the Security Council meeting, Kiir said southerners badly want independence and that should the vote be delayed; there would be possible violence, which shall be the responsibility of the party that delayed the plebiscite.

“I have made the message very clear to the world leaders, it is up to you to take it or throw it out”, he stressed. “If we want to avoid going back to war in our country, it is through maintaining the CPA and implementing all the articles”, he said in reference to the reneging NCP.

Kiir, in what appeared one of his critical addresses, made a reminder of the then struggling majority South Africans, who were oppressed by an apartheid minority clique before 1994. When the oppressed where almost succeeding, the oppressors became so irritated that they eliminated many leaders of the impoverished struggling people. Many leaders of the African National Congress, a party that drummed up for freedom and equality of native South Africans, were assassinated.

“I wish you cannot forget it, it can happen to you here your leaders can be eliminated”, said Kiir, “but you should not keep quiet, let us not give up in this way”.

Kiir took over the country’s second seat and region’s highest chair after becoming the most visible heir apparent following the death of the late Dr. John Garang, who died in a helicopter crash in 2005 three weeks after becoming the First Vice President of the Republic and President of the Government of Southern Sudan.

SPLM and NCP delegations are meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to find ways on how a referendum will be conducted in Abyei concurrently with that of the south.

Kiir lashed out at the National Congress Party for being so much hesitant on implementing the agreement and demanding oil wealth in exchange for freedom. The NCP has backtracked on implementing a verdict issued by The Hague based Permanent Court of Arbitration last year, delimiting Abyei boundaries and defining it as a land for the nine Dinka Ngok chiefdoms.

Experts demarcating the borders were being shot and whatever number of poles they put on were removed by the Misseriya, he said

He also slammed the NCP’s greed; saying within the 50% share of oil revenues for Southern Sudan, 2% goes to Abyei, 2% to Misseryia, 2% to Southern Kordofan in a voluntary distribution scheme that sees the south loses 8%. The south is also being cheated on the share and receives only 26% instead of 50% of oil revenues. The NCP does not give anything to Misseryia and Abyei, he added.

CPA shares the oil in halves and provides for free separation in an internationally supervised plebiscite. “That agreement has been abandoned by NCP, they want more oil and some people came to us and say we must give something to be free”, Kiir said. “Abyei has become a hostage and we did not know. If under hostage, there is always ransom,what is the ransom for Abyei?”.

In a related development, kiir also directed common citizens to avail freedom of campaign for unionists in case they exist in the south. “We want this referendum to be free and fair so that we are not rejected that it was not free”. There are assigned units to keep off the LRA and if need there be, they will be reinforced, he said