{"id":3767,"date":"2021-11-14T19:56:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T19:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2021-11-14T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T19:57:34","slug":"president-kiir-raises-eyebrows-on-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/14\/president-kiir-raises-eyebrows-on-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kiir raises eyebrows on corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Salva Kiir speaking during the swearing in ceremony of the newly appointed Ministers of Finance and Economic Planning, and the Minister of Interior at the state house\/Photo:PPU<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Philip Buda Ladu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Salva Kiir has poured out his frustrations as to why he fired former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Athian Diing Athian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiir accused Minister Athian Diing Athian of not feeding him with accurate and timely financial update about government\u2019s finances and also fault him of failing to regularly pay civil servants and soldiers\u2019 salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAgak Achuil, I have two things to tell you; one, don\u2019t follow the things that your predecessors did! Don\u2019t follow them \u2013and the things that those people did was; they didn\u2019t tell me how much money was there in the government coffers\u201d he said after the swearing in ceremony of the newly appointed Finance Minister on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThe money is under me and if the minister cannot report to me about what is in the coffers of the government then to whom will he report to\u201d Kiir questioned his previous staff\u2019s acts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He accused his previous political appointee of misappropriating public funds for their personal gains being wasted outside the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne will go open his private bank account elsewhere in unknown place and siphoning government coffers, the country\u2019s money is being diverted there. He goes and builds skyscrapers in other places this is what my previous staff have been doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President also urged the new minister of finance to eradicate the malpractice of bribery in the Ministry of Finance saying Minister Agak Achuil should stop the issue of staff demanding for some percentage before approving payment of business contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf there is someone who can be bribed because of his work that he has come to serve the people; why does he want to be bribed? This thing, you kill it. If you spot anyone who engage in bribery and you think you can\u2019t dismiss that person you come to me I will dismiss him or her\u201d Kiir directed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He assured minister Achuil of his full support arguing that he (Achuil) shouldn\u2019t be deceived by any lobbyists out there that they are the ones who brought him into the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t listen to any lobbyists who say they are the ones who brought you, no! There\u2019s nobody who came and talked to me (President) that you bring this young man, no it\u2019s me alone who decided to bring Agak Achuil\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Philip Buda Ladu President Salva Kiir has poured out his frustrations as to why he fired former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Athian Diing Athian. Kiir accused Minister Athian Diing Athian of not feeding him with accurate and timely financial update about government\u2019s finances and also fault him[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}