Date: February 5, 2010
Press Release
SPLM-DC Secretary General Met with Chiefs and Community of Jebel Auliya Today was a historical day for the SPLM-DC in Khartoum Jebel Auliya county when the Secretary General Eng Charles B. Kisanga visited the Jebel Aluliya County in Khartoum.
The Jebel Auliya County is Constituent number 36 in Khartoum and SPLM-DC is congesting it via their candidate Sultan Leonard Tamura. Thousands of displaced people from Southern Sudan and Western Sudan live in Jebel Auliya and most of the area has not been surveyed by the Government nor do the people have any organised government services.
Eng Kisanga and the accompanying delegation was warmly welcome by chiefs from the Nuer, Fur, Zande, Balanda, Shilluk, Bari and many elders of the community. The community expressed their great happiness and said that is the first time a leading politician from any party or Government visits them and they enumerated all the suffering of the community where hundreds of women and youth are in prisons because simply they cannot be accorded a way of life.
Women who brewed are arrested and if they sell tea they are arrested and when the people tried to return to Southern Sudan the failed SPLM system could not help them resettle and some had to return back to Khartoum again. The Secretary General then in turn informed the people and the chiefs that SPLM-DC is for change and working to solve community problems for the people and improve their livelihood all over the Sudan.
Eng Kisanga blasted the SPLM for its failure to provide services in Southern Sudan preferring instead to engage in corruption and tribalism whereby exacerbated tribalism have resulted in tribal fighting in the villages in most Southern states especially Jonglei.
Eng Kisanga assured the people that change is in the corner since the people had a choice for leadership whereby Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin will now be contesting the GoSS leadership with Salva Kiir Mayardit. There is really chance that the people can vote out incumbent failed leadership of Salva Kiir out and bring in a new era of Government of the people by the people.
Further Eng Kisanga explained that the SPLM have failed to unite and now popular independent candidate are all over the Southern Sudan and the SPLM-DC is ready to work with independent candidates to form the new GoSS government. The SPLM so called SPLM Politburo is now discredit as all their choices for candidates were for mostly corrupt individuals who had no backing of the people.
Eng Kisanga explained that SPLM-DC have filed a total of 660 candidates all over the Sudan and this for a party which started only eight months ago. The Secretary General explained also that The SPLM-DC has also filed a total of 95 candidates for the Khartoum state and some of these come from Jebel Apulia. The secretary General explained to the people that he himself is in the party list of Khartoum whereby should he win for National assembly in Khartoum then the services and issues of the displaced people in Khartoum will be his first priority.
The Secretary explained to the people and the chiefs that the really time for campaigning will come soon and he will be back in Jebel Auliya to hold bigger rallies. The Secretary ended his Speech by donating wheeled bicycle for the disabled man who was crawling on the ground to come and greet the Secretary General and. The SPLM-DC head office will collect donations to purchase wheeled chair for Mr Jamal within days and the Secretary General started towards this by donating £s100= and asking his Assistant Secretary General for Kordofan Sector Mr Younis to take charge of getting the wheeled bicycle to Mr Jamal.
Eng. Charles B. Kisanga
Secretary General
SPLM-DC
Khartoum -Sudan.
E-mail:cbkisanga@yahoo.co.uk