Dinka Ng'ok Demand Removal Of Misseriya Leaders From Abyei Administration

26 July 2010 - (Khartoum) – The Dinka Ngok people of Abyei held a peaceful demonstration on Saturday to demand the quick establishment of the Abyei Referendum Commission, the redeployment of the Sudan Armed Forces outside Abyei area, and the dismissal of Misseriya leaders in the administration.

The Media Director of Abyei Area Administration, Mister Chol Angui spoke to Sudan Radio Service in Khartoum by phone from Abyei on Monday.

[Chol Angui]: “After the ruling of the International Court of Arbitration in the Hague, Dinka Ngok are supposed to have a government of their own. The Misseriya in the government are the deputy chairman of Abyei administration and there are four members in the Abyei legislative assembly, they are five. The people of Abyei are demanding that they should be removed; they should not stay in the government again. They cannot serve beyond the interim period.

Mister Angui disclosed that the unity support fund has been used to implement a number of development projects in Abyei area in the last few weeks.

[Chol Angui]: “Of course up to now, unity support fund is the only body that is working well in Abyei area, and this actually is the work of the people of Abyei because they have initiated a lot of things, amongst these is water network as a proposal, which they will implement over the coming period, water project for Abyei. And what they have implemented so far include: Mobile clinic, renovation of Abyei hospital and laid the foundation stone for Abyei electricity and the road leading outside Abyei and they also donated vehicles the sanitation unit for cleaning Abyei town and they also donated other two vehicles for water, mobile clinic and Ambulance. These are the things that they have implemented."

Mister Chol revealed that 20 thousand Internally Displaced Persons from Abyei
now living in Northern Sudan will be repatriated to Abyei ahead of the Abyei referendum in January 2011.