Kiir on those calling for him to resign: they are against the county

JUBA – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has said that those calling for him to resign are the very people who are against the country, days after a civil society organization said it was launching a protest campaign to remove him from power.

Last week, former Northern Bahr el Ghazal state governor Kuel Aguer Kuel and prominent activist Rajab Muhandis forced the People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA), and said that South Sudan had “lost its moral, political, economic and cultural bearing with no collective sense of higher purpose”.

The group also accused President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s government of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) of failure to govern the world’s youngest country.

However, speaking before a group of elders on Sunday, Kiir said the people calling for his exit are enemies of the country.

“There are people writing on the internet and I hear they are mobilizing youth to go on the street and protest. I also hear these activities have been extended to public places like universities. The people behind these activities are imitating what happened in other countries and they do not these activities are not helpful and if there are people who talk to them, they need to tell them to stop,” Kiir said, according to Sudan Tribune.

“What those involved in activities encouraging demonstration was the problem, and that they are the ones who, instead of working with us to rebuild the country, are working hard to tear down and destroy what has been achieved. These are the people who want the country to disintegrate,” he added.

According to the president, there are people he did not name involved in speculations about his health and that some of these allegations are created to incite violence and divide the country.

“When such people continue to engage in such activities, they do not know their activities are causing panic and confusion,” he said.