The document examines appointments, promotions, postings, and deployments of Inspector Generals of Police (IGPs) and their deputies in South Sudan's police service from 2005 to present. Key points:
- Appointments and promotions appear to be based more on tribal/ethnic ties and relationships with the President, First Vice President, or IGPs rather than job qualifications, experience, or merit.
- The police service seems to devalue seniority and disparage experienced non-Dinka/Nuer officers trained in Sudan. Many qualified officers are denied promotions or forced into retirement.
- Since the Comprehensive Peace Agreement era, Dinka members have dominated IGP and police leadership roles in most states, with Nuer members as deputies.
- The police lack professionalism and capacity to protect public safety and lands in a lawful, sustainable manner. Force accused of brutality, corruption, theft.
- Under the constitution, the President has unchecked powers to appoint unqualified, inexperienced officers to leadership roles. Lawmakers rubberstamp laws without understanding police policies.
- Upcoming 2024 elections will demonstrate how tribal police policies are used to intimidate voters and conceal irregularities to keep current president in power.
- Limiting presidential powers and moving police under state/county jurisdiction could improve professionalism, accountability, and serve interests of nation rather than tribe.
The document provides detailed profiles of IGPs and deputies from 2005-present, highlighting lack of qualifications and disproportionate Dinka/Nuer representation compared to other ethnic groups. It advocates reforming the police force to be more professional, accountable, and representative of the nation.
20231225 NAS Christmas Message of hope and resilience... the dawn of justice is near
A message of condolence from the leadership of the National Salvation Front (NAS). His Lordship, Bishop Emeritus Paride Taban, who passed away on 1st of November 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya was a man of peace and lived for the benefit of others.
A Press Release from the leadership of the National Salvation Front highlighting a series of carefully planned target attacks on religious and traditional leaders (and their property).
The leadership and members of the National Salvation Front (NAS) are deeply saddened by the untimely death on September 3 2022 of the late Reverand Dr. Caesar Lukudu Samuele.
The National Salvation Front (NAS) has rubbished a statement made by the regime's Minister of Foreign Affairs as "not only false and baseless but also irresponsible," after the Minister accused NAS forces of an attack along the Juba-Nimule road that left three people dead.
"President Kiir is on record on several occasions complaining that the R-ARCSS is designed not to implement because it is non-implementable. There is no logic in the extension of something that is unimplementable!"
The Non-Signatory South Sudan Opposition Groups(NSSSOG) released a statement entitled ‘An Urgent Call to all South Sudanese Stakeholders’ on 13th July 2022. The statement called on all stakeholders in the country from the political forces, civil society groups, faith-based groups women and youth groups to reject the plans of the R-TGONU to extend its period as the R-ARCSS comes to an end in February 2023 and work towards building a consensus on the way forward to save the country from total collapse and disintegration. The statement further called for a round table conference of all stakeholders in the country to be convened in a neutral venue to discuss the fate of the country and agree on a new dispensation beyond February 2023.
We the Non-Signatory South Sudan Opposition Parties, who rejected the R-ARCSS, and are now driven by the noble goal to rescue our state and our nation from collapse and disintegration, call on all South Sudanese political forces and all the other South Sudanese stakeholders from civil society, faith based, women and youth organizations to forge a way forward, formalizing the current discussion and to build consensus which will lead to the establishment of a New transition with a government of Technocrats/Hybrid government, as the R-TGoNU Transitional Period comes to an end by February 2023.
Jonglei Canal project: a threat to National Security and a betrayal of the people of South Sudan
The National Salvation Front (NAS) has strongly come out to criticise the resumption of the unpopular Jonglei Canal project, which risks draining the Sudd wetlands, as a serious National Security threat and a betrayal of the people of South Sudan.