Ex-NAS foreign relations chief who resigned last month forms new rebel group

JUBA – Former chairperson of National Salvation Front (NAS)’s Foreign Relations Committee, Lako Jada Kwajok, who resigned in October has formed a new rebel group that he said will fight the government in Juba to effect change in the world’s youngest country saying the ruling SPLM party has failed the country.

Lako called his new rebel group ” DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT (DRM).”

“Today the 30th of November 2020; marks the birth of your revolutionary Movement, the DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT (DRM). Our country has been set on a perilous course by none other than those who were regarded previously as liberators but have now turned into oppressors of their people,” Lado said in a statement extended to Sudans Post.

“The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party has failed the nation in a big way. It plunged the country into a civil war out of a power struggle among its elites. It committed heinous crimes against its citizens including war crimes and crimes against humanity. Furthermore, its reign brought no development nor meaningful services delivery to the people of South Sudan. Instead, the South Sudanese witnessed rampant corruption which is unprecedented by any measure,” he added.

The former opposition leader who would be the new rebel group said he is optimistic that uprising and revolution from all across the country is inevitable, and further blamed the SPLM-IO for selling our Nuer civilian who were killed in the aftermath of the December 15, fighting in Juba.

“Upon such dire situation, an uprising was in-evitable and it took place in different forms all over the country. The DRM members were at the forefront of the different Movements that emerged in the aftermath of the Juba massacre of the Nuer Civilians committed by the regime of President Salva Kiir on the 15th of December 2013. However, along the way some of the supposedly revolutionary Movements succumbed and sold out to the regime they fought just few years ago,” he said.

“The Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) contains major flaws. It does not address the root causes of the conflict while allowing those who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity to rule the country. Under such circumstances, the true revolutionaries rejected surrendering to the SPLM party regime and joined forces by launching your all-embracing and inclusive revolutionary Movement; the DRM,” he added.

He further appealed to “all the citizens of the Republic of South Sudan regardless of ethnicity, region, age, gender, religion, and social background to join the DRM in a committed effort to rid the country of the tyrannical regime of the SPLM party. It had brought nothing but devastation and disgrace to our nation.”