Interview with the SG of the SPLM-N (Khamis Jalab Faction), Adam Jamar Kody
Within its endeavors to communicate with ally players in the Sudanese political arena, the Editor-in-Chief of the Citizen conducted a brief interview with Mr. Adam Jamar Kody, who is the Secretary-General of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) – led by Khamis Jalab to shed light on their movement and their views on the ongoing political developments in Sudan.
Excerpts:
Q1: What is your evaluation to the outcomes of Cairo Workshop?
A1: Regards to you, dear Mr. Muawad Rashid
With greetings, respect, and appreciation, I would like to express my congratulations on the resumption of your esteemed and professional newspaper, which reflects the genius of the word, the truth, and the information that serves the nation and the country, especially foreigners and diplomatic bodies in the country. Congratulations again and wish you all the best and creativity that you deserve.
To answer this important question I would like to say that Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-the North, the coming of the leadership of Commander Khamis Jalab to Juba, coincides with the workshop, to meet with the mediation, guarantors, members of the donor countries, the regional and international community, and the government of the South, to brief them on the facts that were unclear to some of our comrades in the peace process and the obstacles to the non-implementation of the agreement manifested in the negligence on the part of the government, the parties to the peace process, including exclusions and failure to follow proper methods in enforcing the articles mentioned in the matrix according to the time frames specified for all the objective reasons that prevented our people from reaping the fruits of peace, especially in areas ravaged by destruction and isolation for a long time.
Q2: What is your opinion on the amended version of Juba Peace Agreement?
A2: As I mentioned to you earlier, will it be building institutions through which to follow up on the implementation of the agreement, such as the mediation office in Khartoum and the technical committee for a follow-up? What is the background of implementation and priorities? Are the items selected a priority? Is there sufficient support? The first is, are there international observers, regionals, and mediation, in the State of the South? If all of what I mentioned is available, the modified matrix can be turned into an action plan.
There are parties we met with, but unfortunately, they were not at the level of responsibility, especially those who split and defected from them, and strong comrades, thinkers, and people of principles emerged from them, which left a great impact on the ranks of those who clung to positions, power, money and strange ambitions in making those people cannot implement the agreement as what happened in the two regions when Malik Agar dealt wrongly with the agreement and nothing was implemented in those areas, so Malik Agar is unacceptable there because such issues should be dealt with through wisdom, responsibility, values and balancing.
Q3: Is there any meetings or contacts between your movement and the political/military players in the Sudanese arena?
A3: Yes, we had important meetings with all that you alluded to in your question, and we stated to them all the breaches that hindered the implementation of the agreement in the two regions, the reasons and proposals to correct the mistakes, find practical and scientific methods and a new approach and benefit from the experiences of the comrades and the government, especially experiences in implementing the CPA agreement.
Q4: Do you think that it is possible to implement the Framework Agreement which leads to democratic civilian rule?
A4: In fact, I do not believe in the current framework situation, because of the mentality of those in charge, framework theorists, and elite members of the old Sudan, arrogance, and misconceptions, distancing the revolutionaries and resistance men and trying to impose a reality; besides the attempts of the FFC Central Council to take advantage of the discrepancies between the military and the Rapid Support and their choice of who to include within the framework with such mentality. Those are the ones who are destroying the revolution and complicating the civil-democratic transformation and an integrated government to build institutions that lead us to a civil state, to achieve the goal of the glorious revolution.
Q5: what is the vision of your Movement to bring Sudan out of its present political dilemma?
A5: Thank you for your good question. We have the new Sudan project. We have been developing it for nearly 40 years and keeping pace with all the developments that occurred in the Sudanese state until the glorious December revolution. We are the masses, members, people, and fans of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, capitalize so far, on the SPLM New Sudan project, implemented in areas controlled by the Movement, as an experiment. We believe that it is a new cooperation with others, parties, revolutionaries, men of resistance, houses of expertise, and civil systems. The current Sudanese crisis and the gloomy horizons are made by opportunistic political work and a lack of intellectual and administrative programs, and a lack of experience in managing the state. The New Sudan Project is an intellectual vision that has been applied in large parts of the homeland. We can harmonize it with others to be a program for managing state institutions.
Adam Jamar Cody
general secretary
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North