FORMER SPLM YOUTH LEAGUE DEFECT TO SPLM-IO

Former SPLM –Youth League National Secretary for External Relations and former president of South Sudanese students Union in Uganda announced his defection today.

Thon Chagai Riak’s letter is read with due honor and pleasure. I would like to express my intention to join SPLM-IO under your able and constituent leadership. My interest in joining SPLM-IO is to participate in a Revitalized peace agreement for the resolution of conflict in the Republic of South Sudan which focuses on good governance principles including the rule of law. Transparency. accountability, free and fair election.

  Several members of the Sudan people’s Liberation   Movement in government led by President Kiir have shifted their political allegiance to the SPLM-IO

In a statement released on Saturday, the party youth leader expressed his frustrations on issues to do with rule of law and accountability which is why he joined the opposition party SPLM-IO under the leadership of First Vice Dr. Riek Machar. saying that SPLM In Government