Abyei Dinka Council demands implementation of regional protocol and grants them all their rights
Port Sudan:
The Abyei Supreme Coordinating Council for Dinka Affairs has called for the need to return to the implementation of the Abyei Area Protocol and its implementation on the ground.
The leader of the Dinka Supreme Council, Abyei Chol, said on Tuesday during a press conference at the lobby of Daman Hotel in Port Sudan, regarding the Abyei dispute resolution protocol and the agreements related to the Abyei area, that the agreements stipulated that Abyei would remain a bridge between the north and the south, provided that the segment of citizens residing there would not be affected by the secession of the state of South Sudan.
Secretary-General Manyang Elli said Abyei was one of the localities in West Kordofan State, but the signing of the 2005 peace agreement, which dissolved West Kordofan, gave Abyei a special administrative status under the presidency of the republic.
He stressed that the Nok Dinka were excluded from the state of exclusion to which they were subjected as a major tribal component of the region from representation in institutions, noting that their share of oil revenues amounting to 2% remained frozen for years without giving us our opinion. share – he said – and that other tribes granted him this right is complete.
The representative of the Coordination of Return to the Founding Platform, Muhammad Wadaa, stressed the importance of focusing on resolving the issue of the Abyei region, which belongs to Sudan according to all related agreements, stressing that the differences in the tribal components in the region must be the core of peaceful coexistence, calling on his part to grant the Ngok Dinka all their rights of representation in institutions and others.