Government disagrees with parliament to suspend officials The Citizen Juba, 14/06/12 - The Minister of Information and Broadcasting who is also the government official spokesperson Dr.Barnaba Marial Benjamin has disagreed with parliament decision asking the President to suspend the 75 officials charged with corruption. “First of all the 75 people who were written letters by the President were not suspected of having embezzled funds, we would like to make that clear,” said Marial adding that the decision taken by the parliament was “unwise”. He said the parliament should have encouraged the President since he has already started the work with the help of anti-corruption commission. Marial said most of these funds were associated with the grain saga known as “Dura saga” of which many companies were expected to be paid after delivering the grain. The Minister said others were paid when they had not delivered and some after delivery and that’s where most funds got misappropriated. Marial empathized that the National Legislative Assembly should have encouraged the President to proceed with the step he has already taken and not to prescribe to him the solutions. He said the President was clear that he was not accusing anybody and parliament should have adopted the methods which were put by the President to recover the lost money.
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