Kiir sacks South Sudan’s bank governor and chief justice
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August 16, 2011 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit
has abruptly decided to sack two senior officials in the government.
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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir (Reuters)
Kiir issued a presidential decree on Monday relieving the governor of
the Central Bank of South Sudan Elijah Malok and replacing him with
his deputy Cornelio Koryom Mayik to run the bank which recently
introduced a new currency to mark the country’s secession from north
Sudan.
He also appointed John Door Majok and Jamal Abdalla Wani as two
deputies of the bank’s governor.
The president also relieved the President of the Supreme Court of
South Sudan, John Wol Makec and replaced him with his deputy, Chan
Reec Madut, as the new president of the highest judicial organ.
Madut had served as deputy chairperson of the Southern Sudan
Referendum Commission, which ran and endorsed the country’s
independence plebiscite. He also chaired the smaller Southern Sudan
Referendum Bureau which was based in South Sudan’s capital Juba.
No reasons were given for the two decisions.
Earlier on, President Kiir announced that his next government’s
appointments would be based on qualifications and not tribal
representation.
It is to be noted that the two new appointees are from one ethnic
group, particularly from Bahr el Ghazal region.
South Sudan’s self determination was agreed as part of a 2005 peace
deal that ended over two decades of civil war. Southerners
overwhelmingly chose independence in the January vote paving the way
for South Sudan’s declaration of independence on July 9, the last day
of the interim period per Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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