By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
President Salva Kiir has removed the commissioner general of the national revenue authority in a presidential decree on Friday evening.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Patrick Kennedy Mugoya, a Tanzanian national was axed via a presidential decree read over the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Cooperation (SSBC) Radio and TV.<\/p>\n Government of the Republic of South Sudan hired the former revenue expert in October 2020 with the aim of empowering the country\u2019s non-oil revenue institution.<\/p>\n Dr. Mugoya had replaced his predecessor, Olympio Attipo, a Nigeria national who first managed the National Revenue Authority.<\/p>\n According to the decree, Dr. Mugoya\u2019s removal was due to the deadline of breach of agreement.<\/p>\n In a separate decree, president Kiir appointed Athian Ding Athian the former minister of finance as a successor to the former NRA commissioner general.<\/p>\n South Sudan National Revenue Authority (NRA) was established in 2018 with a mandate to reduce dependency on oil revenues and strengthen the non-oil revenue sector.<\/p>\n However, Article 16 (1) of the National Revenue Authority Act 2016, states that the position of the commissioner-general shall be filled through a competitive process by publicly advertising the vacancy and the selection and recommendation of the suitable candidate shall be made by the minister for appointment by the country\u2019s president.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, No. 1 Citizen daily Newspaper<\/em><\/strong> has not come across any advert published on NRA commissioner general\u2019s post falling vacant prior to Dr. Mugoya\u2019s relief and appointment of Athian Diing Athian as his successor.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bida Elly David President Salva Kiir has removed the commissioner general of the national revenue authority in a presidential decree on Friday evening. Dr. Patrick Kennedy Mugoya, a Tanzanian national was axed via a presidential decree read over the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Cooperation (SSBC) Radio and TV. Government[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Dr.-Mugoya.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15216,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions\/15216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}