Sudan’s Central Bank fires southerners in the north
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By Julius N. Uma
April 30, 2011 (JUBA) - The fate of South Sudanese, who hitherto,
worked as employees in the Khartoum-based Central Bank remain in
jeopardy after management reportedly, issued them with termination
letters, Sudan Tribune has learnt.
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The move, according to Sudanese Media Center (SMC), a pro-government
agency, was taken by the bank and other departments within the federal
government after southerners overwhelmingly voted for separation
during the January self-determination referendum.
The plebiscite was a key part of the Sudan’s 2005 Comprehensive Peace
Agreement (CPA); the accord which ended over two decades of a bloody
civil war between north and south of Africa’s largest country.
Recently, southern legislators serving in the country’s National
Assembly were also denied participation in the August House, after the
northern leadership claimed they belonged to the southern assembly
after the referendum. John Luk Jok, the southern minister for legal
affairs and constitutional development told Sudan Tribune that there
is a need for the expansion of the current Southern Sudan Legislative
Assembly (SSLA) to accommodate the bulk of the southern legislators
from the National Assembly.
“We have no option. If the Khartoum government says they do not want
our MPs [Members of Parliament] to make contributions in the National
Assembly, then we just have to accept them back and accommodate them
in our Parliament. We also need to find a way of paying them
salaries,” the minister said.
Juma Malok, who returned from Khartoum where he worked as a court
magistrate, told Sudan Tribune that the majority of southerners
currently holed up in north of the country have embarked on an exit
strategy to vacate the region before the July independence declaration
of the south.
“What do you do when you have no clue of what to do next? It’s better
to define your next move before things get out of order. In any case,
southerners were well aware of all these and it was simply a matter of
time,” Malok said.
Established in 1956 by the American Federal Reserve Bank, the Central
Bank emerged to replace all those institutions, which carried out its
functions of regulating currency issuance and planning monetary and
financial policies to serve economic sectors, and build a strong
banking system capable of responding to Sudan’s economic development
needs. It became independent in 1960.
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