Matia Samuel
Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The National Legislative Assembly has allayed fears that the recent dismissal of Dier Tong Ngor from the finance docket will affect the ongoing budget preparation for the Financial Year 2023-2024.
“Please take it from me; it will never affect the budget process,” John Agany Agany, Parliament’s spokesperson, said.
Ngor, who was appointed to the capricious docket on August 4, 2022, was sacked by President Salva Kiir on August 3, just hours before his first anniversary in office.
The finance docket is perhaps the most volatile job to hold in South Sudan, with ten heads having been rotated on the same seat between 2011 and now.
Ngor leaves office at a time when parliament is still debating the long-overdue budget that is two months behind schedule.
Agany, however, said, his sacking last Thursday, would not affect the ongoing process.
“The minister who was dismissed (Ngor) was not going to contribute much because the budget is already in the possession of the house (parliament).”
Asked why the changes might have been executed by the appointing authority, Agany said:
“He was one of the best ministers that we have ever had because, from June all, all the salaries arrears (owed to civil servants) have been paid.
“At least he implemented chapter one; let others also come and implement chapter two.”
He cautioned public servants against misusing their offices. “You should not embezzle the public money just because you will be taken away.”
Ngor tabled a SSP 2.1 trillion budget in June.
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