SPLM branded by Yau Yau as ‘organized conspiracy and violent tribal organization’

JUBA – South Sudan’s former deputy minister of defense, David Yau Yau, has characterized the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IG) as “a violent tribal organization,” cautioning that the country will continue to suffer unless decisive action is taken.

A former rebel leader who held various positions after a 2015 peace agreement with the government, Yau Yau asserted that there are individuals within the ruling party primarily pursuing their personal interests to the detriment of the populace.

“There are those who are feasting on the suffering of the people of South Sudan and they insist to promote their selfish interest at the expense of the people and the state and they have become very powerful and wealthy,” he remarked during a press briefing in the capital, Juba, on Monday where he announced his departure from the SPLM-IG to join the main armed opposition SPLM-IO.

“These individuals have increased in number, strength and around the office of the president to the extent that they have captured the organs and major sectors of state and government,” he added.

The former Chief Administrator of the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) lamented that the ruling political entity has been manipulated by unspecified figures into an orchestrated plot and tribal entity.

He cautioned that if left unchecked, what he described as a “state sponsored conspiracy” would plague South Sudan’s prospects for generations to come.

“They have reduced SPLM-IG to an organized conspiracy and violent tribal organization rendering the party’s organs and structures meaningless, dysfunctional and visionless,” he said.

“The failure to arrest this form of state sponsored conspiracy, South Sudan have been faltering and bleeding and shall continue to do so…” he added.