The secretary general of the United Democratic Salvation Front – Mainstream party in Western Bahr el Ghazal, Juma Zacharia Deng, has blamed the newly appointed governor of Wau state Elias Waya for failure to contain violence in the state.

Juma said in statement to Radio Tamazuj that the governor is the head of the state security committee and yet he has failed to hold any urgent security meeting to contain the clashes that erupted this week in the state and continued for two days.

“Since the formation of the new government in Wau the citizens did not enjoy any sense of stability and they were targeted and killed every day in Busari and Busalia besides the incidents of looting and killing in the residential areas in the town,” he said.

Juma said that SPLA forces are in most of the residential areas of the town beating and looting citizens. He called on the government to commit to the ceasefire and give peace a chance.

Meanwhile, Col. William Gatjiath Deng, military spokesman of the rebel group SPLM/A-IO accused the government forces of attacking their positions in Western Bahr el Ghazal and Western Equatoria.

He pointed out that such incidents are threatening the implementation of the peace agreement, especially at a time when they are ready to come back to Juba to implement the deal.