Crackdown On Illegal Fuel Dealers To Begin In South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has directed the Ministry of Interior to form a task force to crack down illegal fuel dealers. 27 July 2017 Crackdown On Illegal Fuel Dealers To Begin In South Sudan Customers line up for the scarce resource at a filling station in Juba. [Gurtong file photo]
By Jale Richard JUBA, 27 July 2017 [Gurtong]-According to Ateny Wek Ateny, the presidential order requires formation of a task force, before giving an ultimatum of 72 hours for illicit fuel dealers to abandon their practice. “The committee will give 72 hours ultimatum to the illegal fuel dealers, before crackdown by the task force to be formed by the Ministry of Interior,” Ateny said. “Failure to do that after three days, they will be cracked down,” he said. This comes after the President met the recently formed committee to oversee fuel supplies in the country in response to perpetual fuel shortages in the country. Over the past two weeks, fuel shortages have forced the price of fuel to skyrocket to South Sudanese Pounds 700 SSP per liter in the black market. The committee comprises the Minister of Finance, National Security, Minister in the Office of the President, Undersecretary Ministry of Petroleum, the Managing Director of Nile Petroleum Corporation (Nilepet) as well as the two Directors of National Security both Internal and External. Ateny said the President also directed the managing director of the State oil corporation Nilepet to stop issuing personal approval of fuel trucks. According to Ateny, the personal trucks are the biggest problem because the trucks go to the black market but not to the public market at the fuel stations. Mohamed Lino, the Undersecretary in the Ministry of Petroleum later revealed to the press that the directives will be implemented by the Security organs comprising of National Security and National Police. The Minister in the Office of the President, also chairman of the board of Directors of Nilepet is also directed to give directives to the Nilepet Managing Director to cease giving tracks to individuals or institutions. “He must also develop mechanisms on how to deliver fuel to public institutions as well as private companies according to the directives of the President,” said Ateny. Posted in: Home, Governance -- 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/CAJb14or2f3oC5xJ30Tjo3DeA76FVPCdrA5ae2Xw4T4ZAD81GsA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
