Former Mayor Of Aweil Accuses Governor And Some Ministers Of Unprofessional Conduct The recently sacked Town Mayor of Aweil has accused the Governor of the State and some ministers of unprofessional conduct which has caused him his position. 19 July 2016
By Agoth Abraham *AWEIL, July 18, 2016 [Gurtong]- *Andrew Lual Buola, former Aweil town mayor was relieved on Tuesday last week by the State Governor, Ronald Ruay Deng and was replaced by the former deputy Mayor. Andrew Lual Buola who served only for 5 months in the office was sacked by the Governor for what the State government called a normal change. Lual said his relief is politically motivated by those he termed ‘opportunists’ and politicians whom he said wanted to grab opportunities for corruption. He said the Minister of Finance Garang Majak Bol and the Minister of Local Government, Ajak Michael pressured the Governor to relieve him off duty. He said his sacking will encourage more corruption within the leadership as he allegedly accused the two ministers of having raided and closed some shops they alleged the owners were not paying the demanded taxes. “The Governor has pressure. He is having pressure from some people. The people who did this are the Ministers of Finance and Local Government. She has an upper hand and interest of who she needs picked for the position. They say the reasons of removal are that I am a member of parliament but I refuted and told him that everything should be done in line with laws of the country and gave him examples that -Hon. Atak Akello has been a Mayor before me and he was an MP, Jiel Mangok has been a Commissioner for years and was an MP too. And if we really follow the laws, then you as a Governor when you were appointed we were supposed to reject you because the constitution of South Sudan allows only someone above 40 years but you are under this age.” He said. The government secretary, General Dominic Kang says the reaction of the former Mayor is inappropriate as no one is targeting him but says changes are normal in any government. He reiterated that his removal was not politically motivated. “No, there is no misconduct, there is nothing like that, but this is just a normal change of the government, government can also change you and can take you to any place you fit such that you can deliver services to the people and can bring any other person to replace you. I think those are the normal changes which used to happen in government not only in Aweil State government.” He noted. Meanwhile the newly appointed Mayor Hon. Simon Tong expressed his gratitude for his appointment promising that he will not condone corruption in the limited resources of the State. Tong further says his administration will make the town green by planting trees along the main roads. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> - See more at: http://gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/19659/Default.aspx#sthash.hndFjyGp.dpuf -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14opN1kpypf9wRz83rivVZ24L8Lrfc8v3sy1XccAqszZZ0A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
