UNIFIED COMMAND STRUCTURE OF THE SOUTH SUDAN PEOPLE'S DEFENSE FORCE (SSPDF)

 

NO.	RANK/NAME	POSITION	STATE	GENDER	ETHNICITY	PARTY	QUALIFICATIONS
1.	LGen. Santino Deng Wol	Chief of Defense Forces	NBG/ Aweil	Male	Dinka	IG	Secondary school certificate from Sudan.  Trained SPLA cadre. Attended several military trainings in East Africa, Zimbabwe & Ethiopia.
2.	LGen. Gabriel Duop Lam	Deputy Chief of Defense Forces	Jonglei	Male	Lou Nuer	IO	Data N/A
3.	LGen. Koang Gatkuoth Kerjok	Inspector General	Jonglei	Male	Lou Nuer	IO	Data N/A
4.	LGen. Thoy Chany Reat	Assistant CDF for Operations	US	Male	Nuer/ Ayod	IG	Data N/A
5.	LGen Peter Dor	Malakal Sector COMD	Lakes	Male	Nuer	SSOA	Data N/A
6.	LGen. James Koang Chuol	Assistant CDF for Training and Research	US	Male	Nuer Nasir	IG	Data N/A
7.	LGen Stephen Marshal Babanen	Chief of Military Intelligence	Pibor	Male	Morle	IG	Data N/A
8.	LGen. Malual Majok	Assistant CDF for Admin & Finance	Jonglei/ Bor	Male	Dinka	IG	Data N/A
9.	LGen. Ernest Dut Wol	Director for Procurement	Warrap	Male	Dinka	IG	Data N/A
10.	LGen. Al-Tayib Gatluak	Director for Military Production	US	Male	Nuer/ Mayoum Bantiu	IO	Data N/A
11.	LGen Thiik Achiek	Commander of Ground Forces	Warrap	Male	Dinka	IG	Data N/A
12.	LGen. Rabi Majung Emmanuel	Airforce Comd	CE	Male	Yangwara	IG	Gen. Mujung is a graduate of School of Sciences Management with emphasis in Business, University of Juba, South Sudan; Sudanese Military Academy; the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) in London, U.K. Gen. Mujung was a classmate and roommate of King Abdullah II of Jordan. He holds Certificates and Diplomas in Standard Military Course (SMC), and Regular Career Course (RCC) and Certificate in senior military Command and Leadership from the US-African Strategic Research Centre. Gen. Mujung is well-respected senior military officer who commanded several fronts during the war liberation and by far is the most qualified, experienced and skillful SPLA officer, but as a non-Dinka he was deprived of promotions and benefits such as vehicle and others for over 10 years, even though he is an SPLA officer fought in Southern and Eastern Sudan bushes, while illiterate Paul Malong without formal education and military training was promoted to Lt. General and Chief of Staff of SPLA to preside over qualified, competent, experienced, skillful and senior non Dinka Officers (The 2005-2017 SPLA Promotions List).
13.	LGen. Wesley Welebe Samson	Assistant CDF for Logistics	WE	Male	Moru/ Amadi	IO	Data N/A
14.	LGen. Ashab Khamis Fahal	Assistant CDF for Moral Orientation	WBG	Male	Balanda/ Fertit	IO	Data N/A
15.	LGen. Garang Ayii Akol	Commander for Riverine units	NBG	Male	Dinka	SSOA	Brother of VP Abdel Bagi Ayii.

*IG        In Government

*IO        In Opposition

 

 BY STATE (2022)

STATE	CE	EE	WE	JONGLEI	US	UN	LAKES	WARRAP	WBG	NBG	PIBOR
No of  Officers	1	0	1	3	3	0	1	2	1	2	1
Percentage %	7%	0%	7%	20%	20%	0%	0%	13.3%	7%	20%	7%

 

BY GENDER (2022)

ITEM	FEMALE	MALE	REMARKS
No of Officers	0	15	Defeats CPA 25% quotas for women
Percentage %	0%	100%	N/A

*CPA  The Comprehensive Peace Agreement

 

BY PARTY (2022)

ITEM	IG	IO	SSOA	KITGWANG	REMARKS
No of Officers	8	5	2	0	N/A
Percentage %	53.3%	33.3%	13.3%	0%	N/A

 

BY ETHNICITY (2022)

No.	Ethnic Group	No of Officers	Percentage %	No.	Ethnic Group	No of Officers	Percentage %
1.	Acholi	0	0%	33.	Angakuel	0	0%
2.	Avukaya	0	0%	34.	Bai	0	0%
3.	Baka	0	0%	35.	Balanda	1	2%
4.	Bari	0	0%	36.	Banda	0	0%
5.	Didinga	0	0%	37.	Bongo	0	0%
6.	Dongatona	0	0%	38.	Burun	0	0%
7.	Horiok	0	0%	39.	Dar Fertit	0	0%
8.	Imatong	0	0%	40.	Dinka	5	8%
9.	Jiye	0	0%	41.	Cello	0	0%
10.	Kakwa	0	0%	42.	Jumjum	0	0%
11.	Keliku	0	0%	43.	Jur Beli	0	0%
12.	Kuku	0	0%	44.	Kaligi	0	0%
13.	Lango	0	0%	45.	Kara	0	0%
14.	Larim (Baya)	0	0%	46.	Kichepo	0	0%
15.	Lokoya	0	0%	47.	Luwo	0	0%
16.	Lolubo	0	0%	48.	Mangayat	0	0%
17.	Lopit	0	0%	49.	Murle	1	2%
18.	Lugbwara	0	0%	50.	Ndogo	0	0%
19.	Ma’adi	0	0%	51.	Nuer	6	9.0%
20.	Makaraka	0	0%	52.	Sere	0	0%
21.	Moru	1	2%	53.	Yulu	0	0%
22.	Mundari	0	0%	54.	Anyuak	0	0%
23.	Mundu	0	0%	55.	Data N/A	0	0%
24.	Ndogo	0	0%	56.	Data N/A	0	0%
25.	Nyangwara	1	2%	57.	Data N/A	0	0%
26.	Nyangatom	0	0%	58.	Data N/A	0	0%
27.	Otuho (Lotuho)	0	0%	59.	Data N/A	0	0%
28.	Päri			60.	Data N/A	0	0%
29	Pöjulu	0	0%	61.	Data N/A	0	0%
30	Tenet	0	0%	62.	Data N/A	0	0%
31.	Toposa	0	0%	63.	Data N/A	0	0%
32	Zande/Azande	0	0%	64.	Data N/A	0	0%
				65.	Data N/A	0	0%
				66.	Data N/A	0	0%

THE LIST IS INCOMPLETE

ANALYSIS

DATA DON’T LIE

NO DATA, NO PROBLEM, AND NO SOLUTION

Data shows that the fake, sham, and containment implementation of the Revitalized Peace Agreement of 2018 is mainly about securing political, military, and security positions for individuals belonging to Dinka and Nuer ethnicities. The 2015 Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCSS), Khartoum Peace Agreement (KPA) and the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS), implementation is for Riak to regain his lost powers and Kiir to reconsolidate more powers and ascertain Dinka domination.

In addition to the fact that the R-ARCSS peace implementation is all about dividing security, economic and political positions between Dinka and Nuer ethnicities it has confirmed the ill intention of some Dinka and Nuer ethnicities individuals behaving as if South Sudan belong to them before everyone else and the R-ARCSS peace implementation produced losers.

The Upper Nile losers of the Dinka-Nuer R-ARCSS peace implementation is Kitgwang group which was not mentioned in the R-ARCSS peace agreement, but if Kiir is really for genuine peace he could have rewarded Kitgwang with some positions from his 60% share, but greed prevented him from to accommodating them in the R-ARCSS peace implementation.

The Greater Equatoria losers are Maj. Gen. Joseph Yata Erasto, who defected from IO to IG. Gen. Erasto could have been given a position if he had remained in the IO with Dr Riak. Hon. Henry Odwar who lost his Ministerial and MP portfolios and most importantly sacrificed his life for IO under Dr. Machar and Kitgwang under Gen. Simon Gatwech and brought his political struggle and career to an end. Finally, the big losers are the Equatorians who fed and carried Riak and Angelina on their shoulders to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and helped them airlifted to Khartoum for safety and treatment. In addition to above losers are Equatorians who hosted IO in Kuku and other parts of Greater Equatoria lands. The lessons learned for Equatorians is Angelina & Riek have taken Equatorians for granted with rid and for how long can Equatorians be use as ladder? Can Equatorian learn from their past mistakes or still wanna follow others without thinking.

In nutshell, the R-ARCSS peace agreement is a bad Dinka-Nuer peace agreement and its implementation, because it rewarded the very elements that created the conflicts in the first place. Data shows that Kiir is only interested to use his position to benefit his tribesmen and so is Dr. Machar and the rest of the country can go to hell. The majority of 64 ethnicity groups are not represented in any of Kiir’s appointments, promotions and deployments-whether it is diplomatic, military, police, Prison, SSN, Wildlife, Custom, ministerial and parliamentary portfolios.

Finally, the non-signatories’ parties of South Sudan peace agreement were on the right side of history and prove that the R-ARCSS peace agreement failed to address the root causes of the conflicts in the country. Also, the current R-ARCSS peace agreement implementation reinforces bad governance, insecurity, food security, marginalization, discrimination, nepotism, favoritism, and corruption with impunity in the country, and the conflict continues. Over more, the R-ARCSS peace agreement implementation puts South Sudan for sale to Egypt to build Jonglei Canal, even though Egyptian government was opposed to South Sudan independence and blocked all discussions on Southern Sudan cause globally; Chinese to continue stealing oil; and Sri Lanka to take over Equatorian lands grabbed.