SPLM Not Satisfied With Newly Appointed Presidential Advisors

12 July 2010 - (Khartoum) – The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement says it was supposed to have at least four presidential advisors amongst the newly appoint fourteen advisors.

Last week President Omar Al-Bashir appointed fourteen presidential advisors. None of them are members of the SPLM.

There are four southerners amongst the new presidential advisors.

Doctor Riak Gai Kok of the National Congress Party, Mister Bona Malwal of South Sudan Democratic Forum, Madam Agnes Lukudu of the NCP and Mister Al-Shaykh Besh Kor of the NCP.

The Leader of the SPLM Parliamentary Caucus in the National Legislature the National Assembly and the Council of States, Honorable Thomas Wani Kundu spoke to Sudan Radio Service in Khartoum on Sunday.

Kundu said that the SPLM were able to secure the leadership of five parliamentary committees in the National Assembly.

[Thomas Wani Kundu]: “We are now having five chairpersons and the five deputies as follows: the chairpersons Hamar Amun Daldum is from Southern Kordofan he is the chairperson of Transport, Roads and Bridges, comrade Deng Tong from Northern Bahr El-Ghazal State he is the chairperson of Tourism, Environment and Wildlife, comrade Ramadan Hassan Laku is the chairperson of Peace and National Reconciliation not Peace and Unity because I have been talking repeatedly of the position of the SPLM is that the committee should be called the committee of peace and national reconciliation not the unity because people must reconcile before they come together. So Ramadan Hassan Laku is the chairperson of Peace and National Reconciliation and he comes from Equatoria, he represents Equatoria and number four is Goc Makwach, he is the chairperson of economics and finance he comes from Warrap state, then Lidya Jok Chol is the chairperson of human rights and humanitarian affairs and she comes from Upper Nile”.

Thomas Wani Kundu was speaking to Sudan Radio Service in Khartoum on Sunday.