Participants of the IGAD High Level Independent Experts meeting on the revitalization process in Ethiopia recently have urged the East African regional bloc IGAD to invest the evaluation body with more powers to monitor ceasefire violations in South Sudan.

Speaking to Radio Tamazuj yesterday, Executive Director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), Edmund Yakani said the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) and CTSAM should be given more powers to monitor ceasefire violations by South Sudan’s warring parties.

Yakani revealed that both parties have been violating the signed ceasefire but CTSAM cannot move freely without seeking permission from the warring parties.

Separately, South Sudan’s Minister of Agriculture, Anyoti Adigo, said the provision of ceasefire agreement has not been implemented fully by both parties.

He added that the unilateral ceasefire declared by the president recently has not been respected and the issue of the contentment site has not been implemented.

Speaking during a symposium organized by Al-Wattan daily newspaper on Saturday, Adigo explained that the formation of hybrid court will not be possible in South Sudan.

“You cannot prosecute someone in the government and someone who is having an army, so the issue of hybrid court will not be possible,” he said.