The NCP isn’t part of the next day.. The disengagement issue between SAF and the Islamists

The “renowned” Sudan Tribune newspaper revealed information regarding an internal vision of the terrorist Islamic Movement called the National Congress Party (NCP) to establish constitutional legitimacy that enables the Sudanese Army to obtain a popular mandate. That vision was titled; (Future Agenda Proposal for Today and the Next Day).

The worst years for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are the years in which the Islamists used it, its leaders and leadership surrendered to a criminal organization greedy for power, plundering resources, and terrorism. The ominous National Congress Party put forth efforts to hijack the State and its institutions, to incapacitate the Army by killing and displacing its best officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers. The real tragedy of the Army lies in the absolute control enjoyed by a political organization over an institution affiliated with the State and the people.

The biggest crime committed by the Islamists against the Army is its involvement and support in the coups of (June 30th, 1989), and (October 25th, 2022), in addition to the (April 15th) war. Hashem Abdel Muttalib, the former Chief of Staff, admitted in his published testimony that his loyalty isn’t to the Army but to the sheikhs of the Islamic Movement, and the Islamists don’t have the ability to attain power as a political party except by using the lever of the Army, politicizing and distorting it.

If anyone believes that the Islamists are fond of the Army, they are sorely mistaken. The Islamists -only- love themselves, power and prestige before God and His Messenger. They believe that the Army is a provision that God has granted them in order to seize power, and they have tried to destroy it for many years. Their relationship with the Army is ambiguous and based on a marriage of convenience with senior officers.

Stability, development and democracy cannot be achieved in Sudan except by disengaging the Islamists from the Army. Hence, the State possesses what belongs to the State. And the crippled, terrorist Islamic Movement that distorted the State institutions, especially the Army, can lay claim to what the Islamic Movement has. Because without resolving this issue correctly, Sudan will never manage to achieve any progress. The forces of revolution and change must set a major condition in any future political process, represented in the importance of dismantling the empowerment of Islamists in the Army and restoring its professionalism. We are against the elimination of the Army and in favor of eliminating the presence of the Islamic Movement within the Sudanese Army.

A professional Army must be formed, aiming to serve the nation, not a particular party. The Army cannot be a military arm for the Islamic Movement, as this goes against the nature of conduct, against the integrity and neutrality of State Institutions.

The National Congress is a Party of the past, and what lay before it is now behind it. The future belongs to the people and the Decembrists -men and women. The National Congress isn’t part of the next day, but of the previous one. In politics, it doesn’t resort to using political means and wants to hijack the Army’s rifle.

The Sudanese Army is an institution affiliated with the State, so how can a Party own it? Especially since this particular Party is the one that created parallel armies due to its lack of confidence in the Armed Forces.

The vision of the next day is a promise from those who don’t have to others who don’t deserve. The next day is a day to stop and end the war, to return people to the homes from which they were unjustly expelled, to shorten the shadow of the military space and promote the civilian space. If the Islamists continue to control the Army, it will mean recreating the crisis that led the Army into the war and was the basis for the multiplicity of armies’ approach.

The National Congress is a bankrupt Party, empty-handed of any new ideas or solid political jurisprudence. It (chews then regurgitates). It is politically impotent, lacks imagination and innovation except for the dream of controlling the Army’s rifle that placed Al-Bashir behind bars. If you make a comeback, the revolution will return, and prison as well.

March 8th, 2025, may all the women of Sudan and of the world be well.

The revolution and women are more resilient than the war