South Sudan's English Daily Newspaper
"We Dare where others fear"
By Simon Deng
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by President Salva Kiir Mayardit has started induction training for SPLM youth members to enlighten them about the upcoming 2024 elections.
Bol Makueng, the SPLM Secretary for External Relations on Saturday said that the induction training will make SPLM youth friendly with youth of other political parties.
“We have SPLM youth who were trained in South Africa, we are giving them an induction training for them to be friendly with other political parties, cooperate with youth of other political parties and discuss harmoniously because it is all about South Sudan and all of us are South Sudanese,” said Makueng during the opening of the induction training at SPLM national secretariat in Juba.
“We are rolling out first to the state level and then the states will take up the training to the counties and counties will take it to payams and down to the bomas, we need them to go to the states and also do the same induction to the youth so that when elections come they should not be a dividing factor for the people of South Sudan,” he said.
Makueng said that the government is ready for the national elections scheduled for December 2024, adding that the youth who account for the majority of the country’s population need to be engaged in positive manner ahead of the polls. “The youth are the majority in this country and we need to engage them positively, we are still going ahead with elections and when elections are over they should not leave a scar of enmity or disharmony among the communities,” he said.
