Sudan’s oil minister accuses top SPLM official of embezzlement
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July 3, 2011 (JUBA) – The Sudan’s federal minister of petroleum, Lual
Achuek Deng, has accused the Secretary General of South Sudan’s ruling
party the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Pagan Amum Akech,
of embezzling millions of dollars.
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Pagan Amum, briefs reporters in the southern Sudanese capital Juba,
Friday, Aug.13, 2010, on the status of contentious North-South
negotiations. (AP)
The petroleum minister, who is Southern Sudanese and member of the
ruling SPLM, was accused by Amum of betraying the South by selling and
giving half of South Sudan’s oil revenues for the month of July to
North Sudan contrary to the CPA agreement which ends the share on July
9.
In his response to Amum’s accusations published by the The Citizen
daily newspaper in Juba on Sunday, Lual Achuek, who arrived in the
Southern capital on Saturday counter-accused Pagan Amum of allegedly
embezzling three million US dollars to his own account from the sale
of the VIVACEL network telephone company. Lual also criticised the
SPLM Secretary General for failing to build the headquarters of the
party.
The minister further accused the senior member of the South’s ruling
party of violating the SPLM’s Constitution.
Lual denied the accusations labeled against him by Pagan on the sale
of southern oil for July, saying he was only implementing orders from
the President of the Government of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir
Mayardit.
“The selling of the oil was not only my responsibility because I came
to the president of the Government of Southern Sudan, General Salva
Kiir Mayardit and he gave order number 33 of forming the committee,
selected in the ministry of finance and economic planning and the
ministry of energy and mining in the government of southern Sudan in
collaboration with my ministry in Khartoum,” Lual was quoted as
saying.
On the current shortage of fuel in South Sudan, Lual blamed it on the
ministry of Energy and Mining in the Government of Southern Sudan,
revealing that the contracted company by the ministry of Energy and
Mining which was supposed to deliver the fuel from North to South
Sudan failed to deliver.
He further explained that the ministry of Energy and Mining in the
South was given 10 million US dollars in order to contract nine
registered companies to deliver fuel to Juba from Khartoum but instead
opted to deal with one wrong unlicensed company which did not deliver
the fuel to the South.
Lual however called on the people of Southern Sudan to remain calm and
celebrate the independence of the region.
(ST)
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