"I announce the restructuring of state institutions according to the law and pledge to fight corruption and uproot the regime and its symbols." General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said.
He also ordered the release of all prisoners jailed by special emergency courts and the immediate lifting of a night-time curfew imposed by the council earlier this week. But in a statement Saturday evening, Burhan said the deputy chief of the NISS was a member of the newly formed 10-member council which also includes the police chief and military figures.
Ibn Ouf had served as Bashir's defence minister right up to the president's downfall, ending three decades of iron-fisted rule. "We consider taking of power by the military council as violating the constitution's legitimacy," the NCP said in a statement.
Sudan's main protest group says it will keep up the street demonstrations to achieve its aims that include immediate handover of power to a civilian transitional government