The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) is committed to the vision and course for which millions died during the liberation struggle, President Salva Kiir said.
Kiir, who is also the chairman of the ruling SPLM Party, was speaking as the country commemorated Martyrs Day in Juba on Tuesday.
“For without peace, we cannot have dreams, leave alone achieving these dreams. We cannot sit and rest in our seats unless we achieve full stability in the country,” Kiir said.
“My job as a president and a surviving founding member of our liberation is to pursue relentlessly the path that we promised our people,” he added.
The South Sudanese leader said there are three stages of the liberation struggle to be achieved, among which, include liberating people from abject poverty, illiteracy and ignorance.
“Our liberation struggle cannot be declared complete until we have achieved the second and the third stages,” Kiir stressed.
President Kiir appealed to the country’s citizens to join his administration in pursing the liberation path for peace. Kiir urged armed opposition groups fighting his government to return and pursue peace by implementing the peace agreement.
In September 2018, President Kiir, opposition leader Riek Machar and a handful of other opposition groups signed a peace deal to end the country’s civil war that killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
However, several armed groups, including those led by former military chief Malong and General Cirillo are not part of the peace deal.