By Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak,
Jan 23, 2022 — The Liech community Association in Kenya formerly Unity State community Association is in receipt of the Peace Agreement signed between the government of South Sudan and the three leaders of the SPLM-IO (Kitgwang fiction) led by General Simon Gatwech Dual on 16th January, 2022 in Khartoum, Sudan.
On behalf of this Association and the entire people of Unity State, I congratulate you on your success in restoring peace in our country.
On 7th August, 2021, we wrote a petition letter asking the office of the Moderator General of the Presbyterian Church of South Sudan and Sudan, to mediate between the two SPLM-IO factions to avoid bloodshed. However, when this did not happen as we expected, many precious lives and valuable properties were lost as a result of violence clashes between these two factions mainly in Upper Nile State.
We did not know that His Excellency the President would be willing or voluntarily accept to initiate a talk with Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual, because he declined to work with him when he was appointed as Presidential Advisor on 20th June 2021. As such we equally express gratitude to the SPLM-IO Kitgwang Leader for the positive change of heart, and for seeing into it that the country and peace are better than anything else.
I take this honor to assure his Excellency the President that he has the full back of our Association. We shall play our part in disseminating messages of peace and reconciliation within and among our people in South Sudan and the region at large.
Thanks,
Dak Buoth Riek-Gaak,
Chairperson, Liech community Association in Kenya
19th January, 2022
Nairobi, Kenya
Leaders of the Liech community Association in Kenya Post for group Photo after a meeting in Nairobi
