{"id":8470,"date":"2022-08-15T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T19:27:18","slug":"warlords-trash-alleged-military-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/15\/warlords-trash-alleged-military-confrontation\/","title":{"rendered":"Warlords trash alleged military confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By William Madouk Garang  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SPLA-IO Kitgwang faction and Agwelek have dismissed claims that there were new clashes between forces allied to Gen. Simon Gatwech and that of Gen. Johnson Olony in which Tunga military base was recaptured by Kitgwang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, the Spokesperson of Gatwech, Alfred Gach Thot rubbished the claim, confirming that there was no any military confrontation between Kitgwang and Agwelek forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot true, there was no fighting that has happened within us,\u201d Thot told No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an inclusive interview, the head of Agwelek delegation in Juba, Paul Achot Achobek stressed that there were no clashes, except last week in Wij Panyikang County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRight now, there are no clashes. What they [citizen] get from social media is baseless just an allegation, [but] there is no actual clashes,\u201dAchobekl stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are no clashes and there was no clash today but two days ago there were clashes not in Tunja town but in an area called Wij Panyikang,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Achobek, Wij Panyikang\u2019s attack by \u2018anti-peace\u2019 elements resulted to death of four soldiers and three others were left with injuries from Agwelek forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Achobek stressed that they are serious in implementing the peace deal they signed with government but anti-peace elements are against it and they keep backstabbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese elements who came and attacked us last week are against this initiative and they want regime change\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like to assure people of South Sudan that we will not allow these elements to continue disturbing our people and their peaceful living\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, there was a report that breakaway SPLA-IO Kitgwang faction reportedly retook control of their military base in Tunja of Upper Nile state that was captured by Olony\u2019s forces last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter that, several troops on both sides were killed and there was a silence and then we saw General Johnson Olony\u2019s forces retreating northward and today we saw the forces of General Gatwech Dual inside the base and there is no fighting,\u201d anonymous resident was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Separately, a purported senior member of General Olony\u2019s Agwelek in Khartoum said their forces have tactically withdrawn from the village and it was a matter of time before they could return in order to retake the town from Gatwech\u2019s forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes our forces have moved out of the village and this is there in the military doctrine that when you are in a very bad standing in a battle over an area, you pull out tactically. This is what our forces have done exactly and it is a matter of time before we return to flash them out,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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