Rebecca Garang accuses South Sudan Machar of corruption
August 14, 2008 (JUBA) — Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior, southern Sudan government presidential advisor accused GoSS Vice-president of taking bribes from foreign firms, but Rielk Machar dismissed the charges.
GoSS presidential advisor on Human Rights and former minister of transport told Bloomberg on Thursday “There are individuals in the government of Southern Sudan like our vice president Riek Machar who bring foreign companies because they want to get some percentages of commission from these companies.”
“It gives a bad image of our government to the world,” she added.
The influential widow of the former Sudanese First Vice-President and President of southern Sudan, John Garang, also told southern Sudan legislators on Wednesday that Machar had approved licences for foreign investors in return for a commission.
Since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, the ruling party in the south of the country, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) administrates the semi-autonomous region, decides development programmes and attributes contracts without the intervention of the federal government.
After the tragic death of the SPLM founder John Garang, Riek Machar is appointed as Vice-President of southern Sudan government while Salva Kiir Mayadrit became GoSS president and First Vice President of the republic.
Speaking to the business and financial news service Bloomberg, Machar denied the accusations saying “Those are malicious allegations against me.”
The region recorded 14,000 cases of corruption in the first half of this year, according to Pauline Riak, chairwoman of the Southern Sudan’s Anti-Corruption Commission.
“There is outright stealing throughout the nation because we have a fragile institutional set-up,” Riak said in an interview from Juba, the South Sudan capital, on Aug. 11. `”The commission can not execute its duties because there is no law to enforce its mandate.”
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Mr Point
Rebecca Garang accuses South Sudan Machar of corruption
I heard of public workers in prisons and police and schools in Warrap and Jonglei who have not been paid thier salaries for 3 months, for 9 months.
Can this be true?
Mr Famous Big_Logic_Boy
Rebecca Garang accuses South Sudan Machar of corruption
Absolutely Rebecca Nyandeng I agree with you these guys of Riek and Kiir are the future enemies of South, they are working for their own interest not for Southerners, imagine Kiir is sending an amount of around USD $ 20,000-30,000 every month to his children’s who are living abroad and I want to warn that soon nor later those guys will quit their corrupt politics in South but they will leave a very big sickness behind which is poverty and poor infrastructures. My advice is getting rid of those corrupters is the only way of putting us into the right system.
biarawieu
Rebecca Garang accuses South Sudan Machar of corruption
Hi To All Southerners
its unbelievable and this one is already in our mind, that our leaders are fullfilling their own interested,pocket,life and they forgot the interest of the people of southern sudan. Infact SPLM/SPLA has being fighting for a long time, aims was freedom and right among the southerns, also comprehensive peace agreement or liberation was not done for them, so that they get more money. no problem we pray God to bring people with the courage to put the truth first, those who can alert the public to scandal, danger, malpractice or corruption.in Australia is call (whistleblowers). By Biar M Bul
Thyinka
Rebecca Garang accuses South Sudan Machar of corruption
“The commission can not execute its duties because there is no law to enforce its mandate.’’ What is such a commission that can’t execute it mandate due to lack of laws worth? Is it worth more than the salaries that are paid to it employees for doing nothing? Did anybody thought that the commission wouldn’t be able to carry out it duties due to lack of laws before it was formed? Does such excuses provide a window into the lack of development in Southern Sudan? How long will they continue to fool the public with such excuses instead of doing what need to be done to ensure development?!!!