Dinka Bor community youth group criticise South Sudan’s new cabinet formation
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August 29, 2011 (JUBA) – A Dinka Bor community youth group has
criticised the formation of South Sudan’s first independent cabinet,
saying it has not given their community its deserved representation
and called upon those appointed to refuse their positions.
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Dinka Bor dancers, Malakal, July 31, 2011 (ST)
In a letter signed by the Chairman of the Greater Bor Youth
Association (GBYA), Juma Arok Maketh, and published in Juba on Monday
by The Citizen newspaper, the group expressed their discontent with
the formation of the government, claiming that the positions given to
their community did not match its contribution during the liberation
struggle.
Oil-producing South Sudan declared independence on July 9, after
southerners overwhelmingly voted to secede from the north in a January
referendum.
The buildup to its birth was marred by a wave of clashes between rival
tribes and renegade militias, armed with weapons left over by decades
of civil war with the north.
Kiir announced the cabinet late on Friday, naming ministers from a
wider selection of areas and ethnic groups than the previous caretaker
administration. He has promised that posts will be filled based on
qualifications and not tribal affiliations.
The group said the Greater Bor community, which inhabit the three
counties of Bor, Twic East and Duk, with the combined total population
of 382,000, has been mistreated and under-represented in the
government.
In their letter the group said indicative of the problem was the
retirement of 17 generals from the police, headed by Makuei Deng,
despite the fact that “officers older than most of them from other
communities were not removed.”
They also claim that when members of the government have been
dismissed they are generally replaced by members of the same ethnic
group, which has not happened in the cases of Thon Leek and Rebecca
Nyandeng, who are Dinka Bor.
They give the following examples as evidence of their claim: the
former minister of finance, Arthur Akwen Chol, from the Dinka Aweil
community, was replaced by Kuol Athian, from the same community in
Northern Bahr el Ghazal state; and the former minister of Sudan
People’s Liberation Army affairs, Deim Deng, who died in a plane crash
on 2 August 2008, was replaced by Nhial Deng Nhial from the same
community in Warrap state.
They claim that the only representation that the Dinka Bor community
receives is with the minister of parliamentary affairs, Michael Makuei
Lueth and Majak Agot, the deputy minister of defence.
(ST)
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