No Progress On Post Referendum Issues, Says SSLA Speaker

19 November 2010 – (Rumbek) – The speaker of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly, James Wani Igga says that the NCP and the SPLM have not been making any progress in settling the post referendum issues.

Wani Igga was addressing a gathering at the Episcopal Church of Sudan in Rumbek on Thursday.

[James Wani Igga]: “Our partner, the NCP is making all forms of obstacles and impediments in the road of the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. We are discussing issues without end. We have about nine very important issues that we are discussing for instance, the issue of nationality, security, JIU, the issue of the debts and loans of the Sudan and how to manage oil in the pipelines thereafter. So far, we have made no progress; our partner is making things extremely difficult.”

Honorable Wani commended the successful conduct of the registration exercise across the ten states of southern Sudan. He however blamed the NCP for the low turn out at the various registration centers in the north.