Juba — Retired President Moi started his diplomatic duties in South Sudan last week with the daunting task of averting the collapse of the peace agreement signed in Kenya in 2005.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir launched an attack on the government of President Omar el Bashir as the cabinet remained divided over claims that the Dr John Garang was assassinated.

Mrs Rebecca Garang, who made the claims in Kenya recently, was absent while a Cabinet minister, Mr Aleu Aleng, has been sacked.

Mr Kiir said all the pacts guaranteeing the two years of peace have been violated. He told the press, accompanied by Mr Moi - President Kibaki's special envoy to Igad on Sudan matters-- that the oil-rich Abiyei region was causing a lot of tension, arguing that the northern Sudan government was not transparent about the sharing of the oil proceeds.

"We are supposed to be getting 50 percent of the oil proceeds, which have declined to almost nothing," he said.

"In any case, we don't know the sum total of the amount we are sharing. There should be transparency in the whole arrangement." He also condemned the alleged deployment of armed militia in the region against the peace agreement, claiming grievances during a cabinet meeting attended by the Kenyan delegation.

Minced no words

A communiqué released after the meeting and read by the speaker of the South Sudan legislative assembly, Lt-Gen James Wani Igga, minced no words.

"Peace dividends for Southern Sudan in the name of the $4.5 billion Oslo pledges are not arriving," it said. "The whole road seems to have branched to Darfur. This is happening at the expense of the South and it is unfair."

He added that implementation of the peace pact is "injured with one leg injured and should be accorded an urgent referral for surgery abroad.

"The handicaps are likely to take us back to square one because some people in Khartoum are reluctant to have some protocols implemented, hence the violation of the most essential elements of the accord."

President Kiir said the Abiyei Border Commission has not been established, the National Petroleum Commission formation and the Southern Sudan Border Commission have not been formed and the redeployment of the Sudan armed forces and the disbanding of the militia have not been carried out.

Peace and dialogue

"Instead of implementing the protocols, the reverse is taking place," he added.

"In the oil areas more SAF forces are being deployed rather than being withdrawn, and the future of CPA (peace accord) in this context doesn't aurgur well at all."

Mr Moi urged both parties to embrace peace and dialogue.

It is important, he added, to address the Abiyei issue, the withdrawal of troops and the planning for the population census that would set the pace for Sudan's democratisation. He pointed out that his report would be given to the Igad chairman for implementation, adding that after visiting President Bashir he understood the situation and how to address it.

The former president was accompanied by Sudan peace negotiator Lazarus Sumbeiywo, private secretary John Lokorio, press secretary Lee Njiru and South Sudan liaison office envoys John Duku and Jervasio Okot.