The secretariat of South Sudan’s ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), has conducted a one-day induction meeting for members of the SPLM interim secretaries in the states on how the members should behave and improve their relations within the party’s regulations.

Speaking during the opening ceremony on Tuesday, Jemma Nunu Kumba, Acting Secretary-General of the SPLM party, accused some people of trying to spoil the SPLM party.

 “I urge you all not to let down that trust the SPLM has vested in you. I want you to lead the party with new energy and equity that our people will look at every day and have hoped,” she said.

“We are not an ethnic party, we are not a regional party, we are not a local party, we are a national party which is represented by all the people of South Sudan,” he added.

Kuma advised the SPLM interim secretaries not to do recruitment people based on tribalism and nepotism that cannot take the vision of the SPLM party forward. She also urged them to engage and work with communities in grassroots for the party to move forward.

Meanwhile, Daniel Awet Akot, member of the SPLM Political Bureau and Presidential Advisor, said that there is need for the party to change its attitude towards solving issues so that the objective of the national dialogue called for by President Kiir can be fully achieved.

Awet urged the party members to liberate themselves first from ethnicity before liberating other people to embrace the spirit of nationalism.

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