{"id":38459,"date":"2025-08-08T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=38459"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:32:55","slug":"kiir-appoints-western-equatoria-state-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/kiir-appoints-western-equatoria-state-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiir appoints Western Equatoria state Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38460\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/presido-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/presido-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/presido.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Salva Kiir Mayardit (photo: PPU)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>By Lodu William Odiya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Salva Kiir Mayardit has appointed James Al-Taib Jazz Berapi as the governor of Western Equatoria State succeeding Alfred Futuyo, who was relieved of his duties in February.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment was announced in a Presidential decree read on State-Run TV SSBC yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Futuyo was removed on February from his position as a governor of Western Equatoria State, four years after his appointment to the transitional government under South Sudan People Liberation movement in Opposition ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Western Equatoria State had been under the stewardship of Deputy Governor Daniel Badagbu since February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The continued delay in the appointment of a new governor has been drawing increasing attention from local leaders, citizens, and traditional authorities who fear that prolonged uncertainty could derail the fragile peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The continued absence of a substantive governor has sparked mounting calls from community leaders for urgent action.<\/p>\n<p>In June this year, Communities across Western Equatoria State had appealed to President Salva Kiir to urgently appoint a substantive governor, five months after the removal of former Governor Futuyo Karaba.<\/p>\n<p>However, President Kiir also made some reshuffles in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lodu William Odiya President Salva Kiir Mayardit has appointed James Al-Taib Jazz Berapi as the governor of Western Equatoria State succeeding Alfred Futuyo, who was relieved of his duties in February. The appointment was announced in a Presidential decree read on State-Run TV SSBC yesterday. Futuyo was removed on<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/kiir-appoints-western-equatoria-state-governor\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38459","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\/2025\/08\/presido.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38461,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions\/38461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}