BREAKING: Professor Elias Nyamlel and Other Senior Government Officials Defect To SPLM/SPLA(IO)

[Elisabeth Janaina]

BREAKING: Professor Elias Nyamlel and Other Senior Government
Officials Defect To SPLM/SPLA(IO)
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Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti (L) and South Sudan's former
Deputy Foreign Minister Elias Nyamlell Wakoson (R) hold a press
conference in Khartoum in the past(Photo: file)

Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti (L) and South Sudan’s former
Deputy Foreign Minister Elias Nyamlell Wakoson (R) hold a press
conference in Khartoum in the past(Photo: file)

Jan 20, 2017(Nyamilepedia) —– South Sudan’s former Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Professor Elias Nyamlel Wakoson and the Former
Minister of Education of Western Bhar el Ghazal State, Hon.Salah Salim
Ismail, defect to armed Opposition, SPLM/SPLA(IO).

Ambassador Professor Nyamlel, a renowned politician, who has been
critical of Salva Kiir leadership and his excessive powers joins the
rebel faction under the former Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny.

Dr. Nyamlel Wakoson strongly believes that Salva Kiir’s government is
a rotten tomato.

Following unconstitutional sacking of states’ governors and military
generals in early 2013, Professor Nyamlel went Public in April that
year describing Salva Kiir government as a “system that is rotten to
the core”.

Although Kiir sacked him immediately, Prof Nyamlel welcomed the decree
and remained in the country, hoping that things would change for the
better.

His latest decision to flee Juba was popularly welcomed by other
politicians who also defected Salva Kiir’s system to join rebellion.

Other defected officials include Cde. Abdalla Yangu, a civil servant
in the government of Western Bhar Elgazal, and Cde. Mubarak Deng Tong,
a lawyer and a media practitioner from Norrthern Bhar Elgazal.

In other reports, Professor, Amb. David de Chand Ruai, the Chairman of
South Sudan Democratic Front Party, has declared allegiance to
SPLM/SPLA(IO).

At the time of these defections about 15 rebel officials also defected
from SPLM/SPLA(IO) and returned to Juba. Some of these officials, like
Hon. Gatkuoth Khor, were appointed in absentia as governors of newly
created states leaving doubts on whether they were genuinely in
opposition.