{"id":7209,"date":"2022-07-04T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2022-07-03T20:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T20:20:43","slug":"dont-use-govt-funds-to-ready-for-elections-dr-riek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/04\/dont-use-govt-funds-to-ready-for-elections-dr-riek\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t use gov\u2019t funds to ready for elections-Dr. Riek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. Riek Machar Teny Chairman of the SPLM\/A-IO and the <\/em><\/strong>
Country\u2019s First Vice President in the Unity Government (Courtesy photo)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leader of the main opposition Party Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement and Army in Opposition (SPLM\/A-IO),  Dr Riek Machar  slammed the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement in Government (SPLM-IG) questioning them about where they get funds for their party mobilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Machar accused his rivalry party the SPLM-IG, telling them to stop using government funds and say they are ready for election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May this year, the ruling SPLM party launched its party renaissance, a massive nationwide mobilization campaign of the SPLM party where the Interim Party Secretary General Peter Lam Both toured across the ten states rejuvenating the party manifesto, holding massive rallies across the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SPLM renaissance initiative, was aimed at popularizing the ruling party mission ahead of 2023 General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SPLM party has been carrying out several rallies in the States, mobilizing the people to rally behind President Salva Kiir ahead of the anticipated 2023 General elections. This alarmed the SPLM-IO party that seems to have limited resources to question, wondering where the SPLM-IG has been getting its funds to conduct its massive mobilization campaigns, if not from the government coppers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking during the launch of the SPLM\/A-IO Membership registration, Dr Riek said the country hasn\u2019t made the constitution yet, and since they are still under the transitional period, questing where the SPLM-IG is getting their money to launch a big program of campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are groups, they have started with a big program, it\u2019s their right, those red people {SPLM-IG}, and it\u2019s their right to begin, but we ask the question, where are they getting the money from, just imagine that if we get to know! so which law have they used? And the law isn\u2019t yet ready,\u201d Dr Machar questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He now demands that they also be given the share of the national resources if it\u2019s so that SPLM-IG are using them for their campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we also request the same things to be given to us, so if the red is given, we also should be given, because all of us are citizens of this country, if it\u2019s the constitution then we are part of the constitution, and they are also part of the constitution too, if they got this right from the constitution, we too are in the constitution,\u201d Machar argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He called on the SPLM-IG to desist from selfishly using the public funds for their own benefits saying \u2018Stop Eating the Government Money Alone\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He interjected that if it\u2019s the Political Parties Pill, that grants the SPLM-IG the privilege to use the government monies then they (SPLM-IO) are also in it, though he objected that amended Political Parties Act is not yet ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still, so we have the right to request, the blue that is ours is from our own special program\/business, so please don\u2019t eat the government alone, and because they got that back-up\/push, they say they are ready for election, my people this is cheating\/Hypocrisy,\u201d Dr. Riek alleged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He blasted the rivalry party accusing them of using the government budget to put themselves at a prepared position for the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t take the things for the government and say you are ready, give it to everyone and we all can be ready, that is how the competition is supposed to be, about the election, no one is refusing the election, the one who is not doing things official is the one who doesn\u2019t want elections,\u201d Dr. Riek argued .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Dr. Riek stressed the need to have the unified forces graduated and deployed in their respective areas to allow the citizens feel secured, before going for elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe said to do elections this country should be secured, we have to secure it, graduate the forces, deploy them, so that the citizens can trust, we still have people who are still in the refugee, we should return them, because they have the right to come and vote in their home country,\u201d the SPLM-IO chairman emphasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further reiterated that currently the country doesn\u2019t have the constitution, and the necessary laws for elections, saying they should finish implementing faster so that they do the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper\u2019s efforts to reach the SPLM party leadership for their reactions to the allegations made against them by SPLM\/A-IO were not immediately successful by press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tereza Jeremiah Chuei The leader of the main opposition Party Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement and Army in Opposition (SPLM\/A-IO),  Dr Riek Machar  slammed the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement in Government (SPLM-IG) questioning them about where they get funds for their party mobilization. Dr. Machar accused his rivalry party the[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7211,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions\/7211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}