1500 members of SPLM in Unity State announce their defection to SPLM-DC

(01/12/2009, SPLM-DC) On the 26th November 2009, the SPLM-DC Secretary General Eng Charles B. Kisanga received in his office two representative from the Youth Movement in Unity sate.
The Youth representatives handed a Press release to the Secretary General which detailed that 1500 members of the SPLM from both Youth and ordinary members have decided to join SPLM-DC.
The Secretary General is very pleased to announce such big defection from the SPLM and salute the SPLM-DC new cadres. He further calls on them to mobilize and get all the members to register for voting in the Election process so that the failed system can indeed be changed by the democratic process. People should be put off by SPLM intimidations because we expect them to resist change as they know that, afterwards the masses will hold them accountable for failing to deliver to the aspirations of the people of the Southern Sudan for the past five years.

Eng Charles B. Kisanga
Secretary General
SPLM-DC
Khartoum.
E-mail:cbkisanga@yahoo.co.uk

Contents of the Press Release translated from the Arabic version is here:
“The Unity State youth leader opposed to the failed and corrupt system led by the SPLM in Southern Sudan, Mr Thor Simon Bato is announcing today that more than 1500 members form the SPLM have defected and joined SPLM-DC, and this on their own initiative because they believe in the objectives of the SPLM-DC and they admire the leadership of the SPLM-DC for saying they are for the original manifesto of the SPLM and they intend to abide the party constitution.
The leader of the Opposition Youth Movement is hence calling for change so that the corrupt and failed eldership can be removed from power. He further called on all remaining members of the SPLM in Unity not to cooperate or support SPLM any longer because it has become a tribal party which have no internal democracy and have no respect for the party constitution nor can it work for the unity of the South or the entire country.
Further Mr. Bato reiterated that the SPLM has failed miserably in fulfilling the demands of the masses and as such members have to stand together with masses in their quest for freedom, justice, equality and development. As such it is the right thing for the defecting members to desert SPLM and join SPLM-DC so that people can work together and be able to guarantee the masses their right for development and equality in the one country Sudan.