By William Madouk<\/p>\n
A leader of an armed group, known as \u201cAgwelek forces\u201d that split from government army, arrived Juba for peace implementation and he assured the people that South Sudan would not relapse back to war. <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI was born and grew up here in Juba and I shot my first bullet in Juba\u2026I come to join hands with president Salva Kiir so that we do one thing and I hope South Sudan will not relapse back to war,\u201d General Johnson Olony remarked on arrival at Juba airport.<\/p>\n He jetted with around 200 soldiers including high-ranked members, such as Lt-Gen Thomas Mabor his deputy, Lt-Gen Beny Muon including generals among other team of the delegation.<\/p>\n A moment after touching ground, at Juba airport, Gen. Olony stated that he is in the capital to join hands with President Salva Kiir to expedite the implementation of the Khartoum Declaration.<\/p>\n \u201cI am here for peace, the peace that we previously signed with the government,\u201d the leader of Agwelek, on Sunday, 14th<\/sup> May2023 told journalists on arrival from Upper Nile state of South Sudan.<\/p>\n \u201cI was supposed to have come earlier but had some few issues to settle first, and I am here today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The SPLM-In Government and SPLM\/A-IO Kitgwang factions signed the Khartoum peace agreement last year. However, there has been a delay in the implementation of the deal.<\/p>\n Although the agenda of his visit is not disclosed to the media, the head of Agwelek forces is expected to stay capital for five days, in which he will have a thorough conversation with president Kiir on how to implement 2022 peace deal.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope will go back after 5 days to Upper Nile and rally people of Upper Nile to re-build Malakal,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, presidential advisor for security affairs, Tut Gatluak, lashed out at the \u2018doubting Thomases\u2019 and told them off that their \u2018hearsays\u2019 are now dead because Olony had already arrived Juba.<\/p>\n \u201cSome people don\u2019t want to give peace a chance. They are always after hearsays but today it becomes true, and all rumors failed. Olony is now with us here in Juba as a response to the president\u2019s call,\u201d Gatluak stressed.<\/p>\n Mr. Gatluak added that Upper Nile state is now at total peace and appealed to the residents who fled conflict to POC and refugees\u2019 settlements to return back, affirming that the state is now free from any \u2018armed\u2019 group.<\/p>\n \u201cThe peace was not complete but now with the arrival of Olony, I assure you that everything is completed expect those whom we did not sign agreement with, and we are continuing to bring all oppositions on board,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n In January 2022, the Kitgwang SPLM\/A-IO faction signed a peace agreement in Khartoum with President Kiir\u2019s government.<\/p>\n The agreement was signed by security advisor, Tut Gatluak, the Director-General of the National Security\u2019s Internal Security Bureau, Akol Koor, and the SSPDF Military Intelligence Director General Stephen Marshal on behalf of the South Sudan government.<\/p>\n Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual and his deputy, Gen. Johnson Olony, inked the deal on behalf of their SPLM\/A-IO breakaway Kitgwang faction.<\/p>\n The agreement entailed that; the government of South Sudan would facilitate the creation of coordination offices in Juba, Malakal, and Bor to assist in the process of assembling and reintegrating the Kitgwang faction.<\/p>\n It also guarantees the implementation of the security arrangements and a permanent ceasefire and grants the Kitgwang faction amnesty, containment, and reintegration of the breakaway forces into the SSPDF within three months, among others.<\/p>\n The Kitgwang faction under Gen Gatwech however became disappointed months after the signing of the peace deal and blamed the government for not implementing it.<\/p>\n Gatwech and Olony later fell out and the former fired the latter as his deputy and their forces clashed severally. 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