SSPDF and SPLA-IO to jointly contain insecurity in Eastern Equatoria
The Eastern Equatoria State council of ministers, during their third security meeting on Monday, resolved that the SSPDF and SPLA-IO forces will work together to combat spiking insecurity in the state.
This resolution was made during an extraordinary security meeting to introduce the SPLM-IO nominated deputy governor, Mary Lodira, who arrived in Torit over the weekend, a month since she was appointed.
Patrick Oting Cyprian, the minister of information and government spokesperson, told Radio Tamazuj, “It was a very good meeting for us to know one another. How the SPLA-IO soldiers can work along with the SSPDF, was the proposal from the minister of peacebuilding who is from SPLM/A-IO. He proposed that the government is welcome all the times and in case of anything they can get the soldiers from the SPLA-IO to escort the governor on official missions.”