The journalists’ report that H.E. Hon. Pagan Amum, the SPLM SG said SPLM is ready to adjust the CPA for the sake of resolving the problem of the marginalized people of Darfur is correct and not distorted at all, as some people are try to deny it. What safes H.E Pagan is the use of the conditional term “if”, which he employed in his argument: SPLM is ready to review the CPA “if” this can lead to the resolution of the case of Darfur. I followed that interview from the beginning to the end. The interviewer repeated the same question to make sure that Hon. Pagan meant what he said, and confidently our SG confirmed it. This confirmation is also evident in the current press statement where SG Pagan explained what he meant by the adjustment. But you cannot deny adjustment if you are talking of changing the 70% lion share of the NCP or any other share stipulated in the CPA. Also in that interview Hon. Pagan said that what GoSS has achieved now (in regard to development) under the leadership of SPLM is more than what was achieved in fifty years by the previous governments that ruled the Sudan after the independence. Nonetheless, Southerners are a bit relieved now when their brother Hon. Pagan is coming to their side as I suggested in my article last two weeks "CPA Adjustment and Southern Sudan Development" that any adjustment should not affect the interest of Southern Sudan, particularly the Right for Self-determination and the independent status of the SPLA. Any way, it should be clear that the current percentages of Wealth and Power sharing are going to get disqualified after the result of the 2009 general elections. But until that time, the Southerners should be keen to maintain their current share in the CPA. Whatsoever the case, our brother Hon. Pagan Amum should remember that he is a Southerner and should protect the interest of the South even if he sympathize with other non-southerners in his politics. It is good to please Darfurians and gain them to the side of SPLM, but it is not right at all if it is done in the expense of the interest of Southern Sudan in the CPA. Let the rebel movements of Darfur try their best alone as SPLM and Southerners tried their best before they could achieve the CPA. I believe that there can be peace in Southern Sudan even if there is no peace in Darfur because Darfur is not part of southern Sudan. It can make me happy if Pagan Amum utilizes his political energy to become the president of the Independent State of South Sudan in years to come than waste his energy on how to make SPLM become the majority ruling party in the ’Unattractive unified Sudan’, which is so often portrayed in the Sudan TV as an Arab and Islamic Country, and with no much consideration to African and Non-Muslims citizens. Does Pagan Amum think the extremist Muslims and the chauvinist Arabs in the Sudan will respect the SPLM to become the ruling party in the whole Sudan when its top leadership are non-Muslims and non-Arabs? It is better to leave the Arabs and the Muslims alone to enjoy their freedom and what they think is good and right for them in the North Sudan, and let Southerners prepare themselves to form their own state the way they like it as granted in the referendum options in the CPA. Let the SPLM cadres from Southern Sudan take it seriously that time is not for us to confuse ourselves with what we do not want and what we will not benefit from in future.

It is not clear what the intention of Mr. James Okuk by his continuing attacking on the SPLM Secretary General, Mr. Pagan Amum and attacking some elders in the Chollo community. Is this man real "Chollo"?

The intention of James Okuk is to make them avoid fatal errors and do something good for the people of Southern Sudan; it is not to eliminate them because we need them for Southern Sudan. If Mithjwok A. does not know that 'this man' (James Okuk) is a Collo let him go to ask Hon. Pagan Amum who is related to Okuk in Palo village. Let him go to ask other Collo elders he referred to here and they will confirm to him that James is also related to them in one way or another. Let him ask the webmaster of this website and his doubts shall be cleared. But the issue is not the relationship here but politics of protecting our common interest.

I watch the interview myself and have heard with my own ears what our brother said. You know during interviews one can get confuse and utter things not what he/she intends to say. By denying, it is just like adding more fuel on fire, because it is a very negative attitude. You know the T.V is a worldwide screen and watched by many people. Since he did not mean what he said, we hope that next time he is more careful in answering complicated questions. Our brother should also know that he is the focus of the media, espcially after the controversial pull out of SPLM cadres from the cabinet last year and his appointment as minister of GONU.