Sudan govt. says limited insurgency under control
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government on Tuesday said a limited insurgency for which the former security chief was accused, has been cornered but stopped short of saying it was totally contained.
Since noon Sudan local time, people heard intermittent shooting in the quarter of Kafouri, an area known to harbor the houses of deposed president Omar Bashir, but the head office of the fearful Operations Department of the trimmed Sudanese national Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and its relieved leader retired Lt General Salah Abdallah Gosh.
The area was sealed off from public by elements affiliated to this highly trained units of the intelligence services protesting that they have not been compensated properly after the government decided to dissolve the NISS and trim its power, confining it to only gathering and analyzing information.
The Operations Department is believed to be composed of some 13,000 well trained elements of whom some 9,000 said they were ready to be relieved and receive after services compensations. It is not known how many are in the highly secured area in Khartoum’s Kafouri and airport area.
But Sudan’s Prime Minister, Dr. Abdallah Hamdouk, reassured Sudanese that the army and other regular forces are containing the situation and the limited rebellion that took place in Khartoum from group related to the former National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) Operation units who were unhappy with their being dissolved and compensated materially.
He said the incidents which took place Tuesday are under control and that they will not stop the revolution from achieving its objectives nor would they be a reason for the government to retreat from the goals of this revolution.
“We want to assure the Sudanese people that the incidents which took place today are under control and they will not stop us and our mission nor will they be a reason for us to retreat from the goals of this revolution," Hamdouk said.
He said this situation would undermine once again the need for the current partnership between the military and civilian components of the government to push the government forward to achieving it higher goals.
“We renew our faith in the Sudanese armed forces and their ability to contain situation," he underlined.
In the meantime, the Vice President of the Sovereign Council, Lt Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, told a press conference in Juba, South Sudan, that he believed the NISS former leader General Salah Gosh, was behind these incidents.
Gosh is currently believed to be in one of the neighboring countries after the US was reportedly said to have barred him and his family from entering the USA.
-0- PANA MO/VAO 14Jan2020
