Upper Nile governor dissolves cabinet, appoints new deputy

September 21, 2015 (JUBA) – Chol Thon, caretaker governor of Upper Nile state has issued a gubernatorial decree on Monday dissolving his entire cabinet and appointing new deputy governor.

Governor Chol, according to the executive order following his last cabinet meeting with state ministers and heads of independent commissions, relieved Philip Gwyne from his position as the deputy governor and replaced him with Dak Tap Chol as the new deputy governor.

The new deputy governor, according to caretaker state information minister, Peter Hoth Tuach, was the former Nasir county commissioner from 2010 to 2014 when he was relieved from his position and given another assignment as the new minister of physical infrastructure and rural development in the previous government of Simon Kun Puoc.

The new state government will however last for only three months as it will be again dissolved and reconstituted in accordance with the peace agreement in which the opposition group will take the governorship and form a new state government.

In the new arrangement, the government will take 46% of the state ministerial positions while the opposition group led by Riek Machar will take 40% and the remaining 14% will be divided between the former detainees and political parties.

(ST)