The King of the Anyuak and community elders have pledged to work with and support the Sudan People`s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party.
The development follows a meeting between SPLM party Secretary General Peter Lam Both and Akwai Agada Akwai Cham, the King of the Anyuak, Intellectuals, and community elders at the SPLM House in Juba on Thursday.
Addressing the press after the meeting, King Akwai Agada Akwai Cham said they discussed various issues concerning his community, the country, and the SPLM party which they pledged to support.
“We want to work for the SPLM party now and into the future and we will be with the SPLM party for a very long time,” the king said. “As people of South Sudan, we must embrace peace with all communities for this country to prosper. We need peace, we need to stop the senseless wars in our communities.”
Meanwhile, Bol Makueng, the SPLM party secretary for external relations, said the Anyuak area is one of the areas that has been affected by conflicts and that the king and his subjects want development in terms of roads, schools, health centers, agriculture, and livestock.
“It is in the plan of the SPLM party to take towns to the people and nobody should be left behind,” he said. “So, the discussion centered on a common agreement that the SPLM structures devoid of the Anyuak people will include them in the coming arrangement where congresses are going to be held.”
Makueng revealed plans to reorganize the party to accommodate all the tribes in its structures.
“From this month onwards, SPLM will go to all the areas of South Sudan to reorganize and hold congresses and primaries and will see that all the members of South Sudanese communities will be reflected in the party and government structures,” he said. “We also promise that our leader the SPLM party chairman, Comrade Salva Kiir Mayardit, is always willing to meet the leaders of the different communities in South Sudan. His Majesty the King will have an opportunity and a time to meet him.”