The Deputy Chairman of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Hon. James Wanni Igga has urged his party to work hard by empowering the people economically or risk losing to other parties in the 2015 general elections.
SPLM Deputy Chairman James Wanni Igga (R) being greeted by an elder in Juba. [Misuk Moses Mule]
By Misuk Moses Mule
JUBA, 18 May 2013 [Gurtong]- “If we don’t see well, SPLM will be thrown through the window if we do not bring economic development,” he warned.
He said that soon the people will forsake the SPLM and urged his party to ensure that the living standards of the South Sudanese are improved and that there is need to fight poverty.
Igga said that the people of South Sudan have a problem of implementation of the policies and the programs and that there is corruption.
The deputy chairman called on the party to do something to back up the independence that they struggled for.
He called for the need to have research; come with alternatives, follow up, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for the success of the programs and policies.
“My problem always with the South and these decision makers we have big defects when it comes to making policies and planning for the success of this new country,” he said.
Nevertheless, he announced that the political bureau which is the highest decision making body of his party in their two documents of the constitution and the manifesto have given youth 20 per cent political participation and women 35 per cent.
“I want to announce here that in the last meeting of the SPLM political bureau in the two documents of the SPLM which includes the constitution and the manifesto in recognition of the role played by the youth during the 21 years of the SPLM/A the SPLM is going to give participation of the youth in all political posts 20 per cent,” he announced.