{"id":27771,"date":"2024-08-20T07:30:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=27771"},"modified":"2024-08-20T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:30:43","slug":"adil-victim-of-witch-hunt-former-press-secretary-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/adil-victim-of-witch-hunt-former-press-secretary-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Adil victim of witch-hunt\u2019, former Press Secretary claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By William Madouk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In a strong defense of former Central Equatoria Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony, his former press secretary, Derick Derickson, has dismissed accusations that his administration failed to remit revenue to banks, labelling the claims as a political witch hunt.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Mr. Simon Waakhe Wudu, Press secretary of the state governor (Gen. Augustino Jadalla Wani) said that Adil\u2019s administration neglected cash transfers, leading to dysfunction in various institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Governor found that revenue-generating institutions were making unauthorized expenditures on state activities,\u201d Wudu stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe immediately banned this practice and has directed that all spending be managed by the State Ministry of Finance and Planning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>This came after Jadalla instituted three ad hoc committees which were tasked with examining the state\u2019s records, approved budgets, revenue collections, and investments.<\/p>\n<p>This came after Jadalla established three ad hoc committees, which reviewed the state&#8217;s records and approved budgets, revenue collections, and investments.<\/p>\n<p>It also included a committee that assessed the disposal of government assets, while another focused on administrative policies and human resources.<\/p>\n<p>In rebuttal, Derick contends that the attacks are politically motivated, emphasizing that Adil&#8217;s administration worked diligently under challenging circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>He rubbished the allegations and termed them as \u2018baseless\u2019, \u2018untrue\u2019 and mockery political propaganda to tarnish Adil\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe so-called 100 Jadalla report presented by his press Sectary was a kidology, inaccurate and misleading report. In other words, I can describe it as a witch hunt,\u201d said Derick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report alleged that former leadership of Emmanual Adil was doing none remittance of the state resources to the designated account of the government. This is a wild allegation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the minister of finance can give proof against \u2018wild\u2019 claims that the \u2018state is running on no remittance,\u2019 which was inept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministry of finance who was by then in the leadership of Emmanuel can give proof to what they alleged to be running state through no remittance into designated accounts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Derick claimed that Jadalla\u2019s leadership has shown a political witch hunt against Adil since day one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy all this witch hunt against the outstanding leadership of the governor [Adil]? We need a very decisive leadership in CES that can deliver to the aspiration of the people of Central Equatoria state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that Jadalla administration should channel the energy in delivery services rather that turning against Adil\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decisive leadership that is so concerning must use their energy to deliver services to the people of Central Equatoria state then what we call political seeking propaganda that is meant to advance their direction,\u201d Derick added.<\/p>\n<p>e termed the report as \u2018words\u2019 with no proper goals in delivering services to the people in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Madouk &nbsp; In a strong defense of former Central Equatoria Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony, his former press secretary, Derick Derickson, has dismissed accusations that his administration failed to remit revenue to banks, labelling the claims as a political witch hunt. Last week, Mr. Simon Waakhe Wudu, Press secretary<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/adil-victim-of-witch-hunt-former-press-secretary-claims\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-equatoria-state","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Former-governor-of-Central-Equatoria-Emmanuel-Adil-Anthony.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27773,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions\/27773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}