{"id":43583,"date":"2026-03-16T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=43583"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:28:18","slug":"aweil-north-commissioner-resigns-after-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/aweil-north-commissioner-resigns-after-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Aweil North Commissioner Resigns After Suspension  \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>By Hou Akot Hou<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The commissioner of Aweil North County in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State has resigned following a suspension issued by the state government last week.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner, Deng Kuel Kuel, submitted his resignation after facing allegations of misconduct, including claims that he had improperly taken control of a vehicle belonging to the county health department. Local residents in Aweil North also accused him of arbitrarily arresting teachers, which increased tensions in the county.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the complaints and accusations of insubordination, the office of the state governor issued a suspension letter against Kuel pending further administrative action.<\/p>\n<p>Following the suspension, Kuel announced his resignation, stating that he believed the state authorities had taken sides with individuals he claimed were in conflict with him in the county.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have made a decision to resign because the state authorities are trying to infringe on and breach my leadership rights in the county. Therefore, I have resigned effective immediately upon receiving the suspension letter,\u201d Kuel said.<\/p>\n<p>After the resignation, William Wel Deng, a Member of Parliament from Northern Bahr el Ghazal who hails from Aweil North County, called for accountability regarding the allegations against the outgoing commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Facebook, Deng urged the state governor to ensure that Kuel is investigated and audited before leaving office.<\/p>\n<p>He also alleged that the former commissioner may have taken a county ambulance and called on authorities to issue an arrest warrant if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By Hou Akot Hou The commissioner of Aweil North County in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State has resigned following a suspension issued by the state government last week. The commissioner, Deng Kuel Kuel, submitted his resignation after facing allegations of misconduct, including claims that he had improperly taken control of<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/aweil-north-commissioner-resigns-after-suspension\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Suspension.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583","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=43583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43584,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43583\/revisions\/43584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}