{"id":6938,"date":"2022-06-24T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2022-06-23T19:15:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:15:15","slug":"expedite-arrears-payment-anti-corruption-tells-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/24\/expedite-arrears-payment-anti-corruption-tells-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Expedite arrears payment – Anti-Corruption tells Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rent agreement image (photo: courtesy)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By William Madouk Garang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission (SSACC) is calling on the Ministry of Finance to immediately avail funds to pay cumulative rent arrears of 7,200,000 South Sudanese Pound (SSP) to landlord that accommodates government institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, landlord who rented his buildings to the National Anti-Corruption Commission locked his building after the institution failed to pay over Seven million South Sudanese Pounds, an accrued rental arrears of one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeremiah Ater, the Executive Director of the Commission confirmed to media that indeed they were thrown out of the building due to accumulative rental arrears leaving staff in bewilderment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a phone interview with No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper, Ater said the offices are still locked. He is urging the Ministry of Finance and Planning to speed up the payment of the accrued rental fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need this money to be paid because he [the landlord] has waited for a year. So, he has been patient and now I believe he lost the patience,\u201d Ater reiterated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe landlord has waited for a year! So, let Ministry of Finance release the money so that we can pay the rent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Mr. Ater said they had already sent tenant agreement to the national ministry of finance and was approved, but the administrative procedures are the ones delaying payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYes, we sent the rent agreement and it was approved but the processes take time because it goes to many hands, it goes to 1st<\/sup> Undersecretary, Director General of account, director of account and to account sections in different department. So, we have not received anything yet,\u201d he stated.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further revealed that, the main entrance of the rented offices is still closed, and all the documents, stamps and headed papers are locked inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo operations really because the stamp is inside and the headed papers are inside. So, we are not responding to a lot of communications simply because of the stamp,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe tried to convince him [the landlord], and he\u2019s saying you can give me half of the money and we cannot get half of the money. So, we are still waiting, there\u2019s no operation – we just go and sit there, if there\u2019s any meeting we can see,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The South Sudan Anti-Corruption is a body mandated by the Interim Constitution to investigate cases of corruption in the public and private sectors to help in combating administrative malpractices in public institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By William Madouk Garang South Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission (SSACC) is calling on the Ministry of Finance to immediately avail funds to pay cumulative rent arrears of 7,200,000 South Sudanese Pound (SSP) to landlord that accommodates government institutions. Last week, landlord who rented his buildings to the National Anti-Corruption Commission locked[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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938","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=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6940,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions\/6940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}