From left to right: Deng Yiech, Biel Gich-- who have all defected to SPLM-- and SPLM-DC chairman Lam Akol during the SPLM-DC convention in Khartoum last year. (Photo/special for New Sudan Vision)

(Malakal NSV) - A representative of the SPLM-Democratic Change, a splinter group of the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement headed by former Sudan minister of foreign affairs, Lam Akol, has defected back to the SPLM this afternoon, a source inside SPLM-DC told The New Sudan Vision Thursday.

Deng Yiech Bachech, who had been the assistant secretary for external affairs and SPLM-DC representative to Canada in Calgary abandoned his party in Malakal, citing his “disappointment with the way the business is running” in the party, NSV has learned.

The SPLM-DC chairman Lam Akol said he was “surprised” by Deng’s desertion from the party when he was informed of the news. However, he dismissed the move as “individual disenfranchisement” according to a source who wished to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter.

The insider who informed NSV about the development said Deng announced his defection in Malakal while he was together with SPLM secretary general Pagan Amum and former SPLM-DC representative to the United States, Biel Gich, who had left the party last month, saying all its ideals remained on paper.

“What I experienced in the party [SPLM-DC] is very different from the what [image] it portrays in public”,  Mr. Gich said on February 11 when he announced his defection in Juba.

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