S. Sudan official dismisses alleged scam at foreign affairs ministry
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February 7, 2016 (JUBA) - A South Sudanese government official has
dismissed reports alleging that senior foreign affairs ministry
personnel using their positions to enrich themselves at expense of
providing services, yet the nation was struggling economically.
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South Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation Barnaba Marial Benjamin (Photo AP /Alexander
Zemlianichenko)
"I don’t think that is true. There is nothing like. When any official
of the government including the ministry of foreign affairs and
international cooperation goes out, he or she does that on behalf of
the government and the country. That person goes for a mission in the
interest of the country," said Abdon Terkoc, the undersecretary in the
foreign affairs ministry.
"So it should be important that our people look at these foreign trips
as not for money”, he added.
Terkoc described the foreign affairs minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin
as incorruptible after unconfirmed reports claimed the finance
ministry paid him huge sums of money.
“I am not aware of these allegations. I have not seen those reports.
So I cannot comment on that but I know it is not good to smear the
name of someone for nothing and it is unfortunate this nonsense is
being circulated by people with bad intentions”, he stressed.
Terkoc was reacting to reports showing financial documents, including
a cheque uploaded by Twitter and Facebook users, which labeled senior
foreign officials, including Marial as being “hawkers, money minded,
looters, heartless and disgraceful people”.
In a poor country where corruption has been a central issue for years,
the revelation sparked a public angry at the lavish lifestyles of the
political class in the young nation.
Daniella Valentino Wol, a sister to one of South Sudanese deputy head
of mission to the United States, Baak Valentino Wol, and one of the
alarmed and annoyed South Sudanese citizens angrily reacted to the
allegation and asked President Salva Kiir should be detained and
charged for corruption for allowing resources of the country to be
looted.
"President Kiir should be detained and charged for corruption that is
going on in South Sudan, said Daniella in a post on her Facebook page.
There is not a day that goes by without suffering, dying of citizens
through direct or indirect systematic killing but corruption continues
with the government officials”, she added.
She accused Kiir of allegedly failing to address corruption, fight
corruption and being the "only leader in the world who travels with a
lot of money for a few day foreign trip."
“Kiir refuses to lead with the accountability and transparency because
he has failed to tackle corruption in his administration and Kiir is
the only president who travels with over one million dollars in the
world and spends it on a trip for a few days and South Sudanese jails
are full of innocent people whilst criminals walk free in Juba”, she
added.
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