Dr. Lumoro denies being kicked out of Tumaini Initiative

Author: Emmanuel J. Akile | Published: 40 minutes in the past

Cabinet Minister Dr. martin Elia Lomuro. (File picture).

The rapporteur of presidency delegation to the Kenya-led South Sudan peace course of has refuted social media reviews that he was thrown out of the Tumaini initiative by the chief mediator.

Unverified allegations surfaced on social media platforms after the talks resumed – that Kenya’s veteran peace mediator Gen. Lazarus Sumbeiywo expelled Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro from the peace convention in Nairobi.

The rumors have it that Dr. Lomuro angered Sumbeiywo after denying that President Salva Kiir wrote a letter requesting Kenya’s President Ruto’s help to mediate peace between the transitional authorities and holdout opposition teams.

But Cabinet Minister Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro described the net allegations as a adverse social media marketing campaign towards the Tumaini Initiative.

According to him, some people are concentrating on him just because he’s the federal government rapporteur and secretary of the high-level standing committee on implementation of the revitalized peace settlement.

“This press is essentially to alleviate the concerns of our citizens and our people who know that we are here to negotiate peacefully, and to negate the negative social media campaign,” he mentioned addressing the media from Nairobi on Monday.

“I want to assure our people that I’m here. Lazarus Sumbeiywo is a very responsible and very well-known peace mediator. He cannot be described as someone who could chase a senior minister of a government delegation.”

“So this news which has been spread actually undermines the name of Lazarus Sumbeiywo. So I want to tell our people not to listen to the negative propaganda that is out there in order for them to lose trust in the government, to divide our delegation and to make them lose hope.”

The Tumaini peace initiative resumed 4 days in the past and mediators have been holding session conferences with the events to attempt to bridge the gaps of their positions forward of the primary a part of the negotiation anticipated on Monday.

The events have differed on the initially agreed protocols which compelled the withdrawal of a piece of the transitional authorities from the talks in June this yr.

The authorities crew means that the Nairobi peace course of shouldn’t be a renegotiation of the 2018 peace deal, whereas the opposition insists the talks ought to decide up from the place it stalled.