The Joint Defence Board ordered all forces of the signatories to the revitalised agreement to report to their cantonment sites and barracks.
The South Sudan people’s Defence Force or SPDF Spokesman Major General Lul Ruai Koang says the forces will start going to their sites and barracks within seven days.
‘The SSPDF have been ordered by the Chief of Defence to monitor and facilitate the movement of the opposition forces to their designated cantonment sites, to avoid the wrong elements not to impersonate as opposition members’, Lul explains.
‘There will be facilitation in terms of road and passing to the SSPDF barracks ‘, he adds
The Deputy Military Spokesman of the SPLA-IO Colonel Lam Paul Gabriel says by the 30th of July all forces will have reported to their cantonment sites and food would be provided.
There are challenges of access to the other cantonment sites due to rain which were not established yet.
Colonel Paul discloses that only 20 cantonment sites have been verified out of 25 and that access to five remains a challenge due to rain.
The opposition forces will report to their cantonment sites while the SSPDF will report to their barracks within seven.
The registration will start and screening of the forces at the cantonment sites to be followed by unification training.
The officials were speaking on Friday at the Eagle House in Bilpham after the security mechanisms meeting.