Darfur’s Liberation and Justice Movement dismisses its secretary general

Khartoum-SudaneseOnline-Darfur’s Liberation and Justice Movement has issued a decision to fire its secretary general and influential military leader within the former rebel group, Bahr Idriss Abu Garda from the movement.
The movement's spokesman, Ahmad Fadul, said in a press release on Saturday that the decision to dismiss of the Secretary-General came from recommendation made by inquiry committee set up last week to examine irregularities committed by the Secretary-General.
Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, a splinter of Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) is one of the main founders of LJM which signed the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur in July 2011. Recently, he was accused by the group’s head of DDR implementation Haider Galu Kuma, a breakaway of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) of hampering the process.
Abu Garda seemingly is angered by the lack of support from the group’s leader, Tijani al-Sissi, for his request to integrate former combatants rejected by the Sudanese army. On 30 December 2014, he told Al-Jarida newspaper that al-Sissi is “weak and consults in everything the head of Darfur peace office, Amin Hassan Omer”.