The Executive Director of Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), Edmund Yakani has called on the National Transition Committee (NTC) to convene meeting to address the challenges affecting peace.
Yakani expressed that the peace solution to the current instability will come when all parties to Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) come together and discuss.
He urged the Newly NTC leadership headed by Kuol Manyang as the Senior Presidential Advisor to call for inclusive urgent meeting with the help of the Revitalized Joint Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (RJMEC).
The Activist statement followed the recent Visit of the African Union panel of wise as well as Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, all which have not managed to make breakthrough as tensions remain in some part of the country persists.
Yakani acknowledged the efforts of the visiting delegation and urged the NTC leadership to arrange inclusive R-ARCSS meeting to discuss more on possible solution to the current challenges.
“Allow me to take this opportunity with high respect to appeal kindly to the newly reconstituted leadership of National Transitional Committee (NTC) in partnership with RJMEC to hold an urgent R-ARCSS parties and stakeholders inclusive Round table for us to deliberate on the fate of political transitional process in the country” Yakani said.
The Activist acknowledged that in the recent days, series of confrontations among parties have been reported and there is need to deescalate it.
“We are aware that for the last two and there week we have seen a serious political confrontation we have seen serious Military confrontations some of them constitute a violation of R-ARCSS” he said.
Yakani called on South Sudanese leaders in particular and the Citizens in general to embrace dialogue and cease confrontations.
“But we all belief that violence is not the instrument that we shall use to define the pathway for transitioning our country from Instability to stability except dialogue is the best instrument to transition the country from instability to stability” he said
However, the current challenges to the 2018 peace agreement include the house arrest of the First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar and serious confrontations between South Sudan People Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA-IO) in some part of the country.
