S. Sudan president suspends top aides over financial scam
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June 27, 2015 (JUBA)-South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has issued
administrative orders suspending two of his aides, hardly a month
after a security officer was arrested.
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South Sudanese president Salva Kiir (Photo: Reuters)
The executive director in Kiir’s office, Mayen Wol Jong and Yel Luol,
chief administrator were suspended on charges related to forgery in
the presidency.
The officials are due to appear before of a panel investigators to
answers questions regarding what they know about alleged forgery,
which led to the loss of hundreds of millions of US dollars in the
name of the president.
Many officials in the office of the president said unspecified amount
of public resources have been lost through scandalous dealing.
The suspension is connected to recent arrest of security officer, John
Agou Wuoi, who was accused and arrested for using the seal and
signature of the President to request payments in his name.
Security sources and presidential officials privy to the processes
have told Sudan Tribune that preliminary investigations discovered
several names involved in the scam.
The South Sudanese presidential spokesperson, Ateny Wek Ateny
confirmed the suspension, but said the decision was meant to
facilitate the investigations.
“It is true that they have been suspended. It is the case of security
officer, Mr. John Agou, who was found in possession of documents
identical to the republican seals letterhead of the president, which
implicated them. This is only to allow for investigation to take
place”, he said,
The presidential said aides there are some sort of negligence on the
side of the suspended officials. Ateny explained that John Agou was
with working with the two suspended officials in the office of the
president and was found possessing seals and headed papers identical
to the official seal and signature of the President.
Agou is reported to have mentioned a number of senior government
officials believed to have played a role in the scandal. He was
apprehended when he requested payment of $ 1 million to be cashed
directly from the country’s Central Bank.
He impersonated president Kiir as the author of the directive for
payment. Security found hundreds of similar documents cashed in the
name of the president in the Central Bank.
This is not the first time for the two officials to be suspended. They
were suspended in 2012 when money disappeared at the presidency in
alleged burglary, which eyewitnesses described ‘as mouse hole’ in the
wall of the office where money got stolen? The office door was locked
and intact, but the money was missing.
Subsequently, the president issued a televised order suspending Mayen,
Luol and Nhomot Agoth. In a surprise move, the president reinstated
the two suspended officials quietly and dismissed Agoth in the same
manner.
Meanwhile, Kiir has appointed Bol Wek as acting chief of staff in
place of Mayen and Rizik Dominic to act as executive director, a
position earlier held by Luol in the presidency.
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