South Sudan withdraws diplomatic passports from key former officials
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August 12, 2016 (JUBA) -South Sudanese government under President
Salva Kiir has withdrawn diplomatic passports from key former
detainees and officials, highlighting the degree of disappointment
with their activities and global campaign advocating for placing the
country under temporary administration of the United Nations and for
regional intervention force.
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SPLM Secretary General Pagan Amum (AFP/Getty)
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation, Joseph Ayok Anei, said Friday that officials at
Immigration Service have been directed former public office holders to
immediately surrender official and diplomatic passports issued to them
while they were in office.
Ayok said the decision was not targeting anyone but rather a matter of
enforcing guiding diplomatic policy in the issuance and use of a
particular travel documents by those holding public offices.
"This is a matter of enforcing guiding policy in the use of diplomatic
passport. There is no targeting of anybody who may have been affected.
It is a notice to all those persons holding special and diplomatic
passports which were previously issued to them because of their
assignments. Since they are no longer in the same capacity, there is
no any reason to continue to use the passport as if they are in the
same capacity. They should return them to the Immigration Service
Headquarters with immediate effect. Failure to comply with this
directive will amount to an offence under the Immigration Act 2011.
Such unauthorized possession will be impounded at our control posts on
arrival or departure,” he explained.
Reacting to the decision of the government, Majak D’ Agoot, one of the
key members of former detainees whose diplomatic passports have been
withdrawn described the action as “a feckless and desperate act of a
dictator with no effect and dividend”.
Majak said on his twitter account that the decision would not in any
way affect their activities, stressing that founding leader of the
Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), late John Garang de Mabior,
roamed the whole world advocating for the cause of South Sudanese
without a Sudanese passport.
It is unclear how many members of the group have been affected.
Sources privy to the decision at the ministry of foreign affairs said
up to 24 former government and party officials, including former
Secretary General of the SPLM, Pagan Amum Okiech have been affected by
the decision.
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12 August 23:46, by Eastern
South Sudan has an e-passport one of the few in Africa but it has
a meaningless and useless diplomatic passport. I don’t see any sense
in the Dons and daughters of "former" politicians abusing the
country’s diplomatic passport!
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13 August 00:36, by Force 1
Traitors or those who are selling South Sudan overseas to
foreign powers should know that; they will never set foot on South
Sudan soil for the rest of their lives. Their travelling passports and
visas are all canceled for good. Those are the prices they will pay
for treason against their country South Sudan!
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13 August 05:26, by Shadrack Nuer Machut
Wonders shall never end! All detainees, Dr. Riek & his group
plus some remnant elements in the gov’t are all corrupt, embezzlers,
traitors, useless, pretenders & causative agents of S. Sudan current
crisis. Pres. Omar Bashir referred them as insects & they’ve now
proved him right. They’ll never succeed with their devil wishes!
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