{"id":4544,"date":"2021-11-19T15:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking"},"modified":"2021-11-19T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:13:45","slug":"kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking","title":{"rendered":"Kiir summons Central Equatoria governor over mayor\u2019s sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>President Salva Kiir Mayardit has summoned the governor of Central Equatoria state Emmanuel Adil Anthony just a day after the governor dismissed the Mayor of Juba City Municipality Kalisto Lado.<\/p>\n<p>In a move that surprised the public yesterday, the governor issued a gubernatorial decree dismissing Kalisto as Mayor of the capital and the governor went short of citing reasons behind the sacking.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony did not also appointed a successor and the public took to social media to express their anger over the sacking of the only South Sudanese official the public has praised for organizing the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sudans Post this afternoon, a senior South Sudan government official said President Salva Kiir Mayardit has summoned the governor over the sacking after the public uproar saying there is possibility that Kalisto will be reappointed into the position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor has been summoned by the President and I am aware that the president is to ask the governor to reappoint Mr. Kalisto because the public is not happy about the circumstances in which he was sacked,\u201d he said 0n condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>A Tanzania-based South Sudanese lawyer has launched an online campaign asking for reinstatement of the mayor and that campaign has reached 58 signatures to support the call.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. President Salva Kiir Mayardit has summoned the governor of Central Equatoria state Emmanuel Adil Anthony just a day after the governor dismissed the Mayor of Juba City Municipality Kalisto Lado. In a move that surprised the public yesterday, the governor issued a gubernatorial decree dismissing Kalisto as Mayor of the capital and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":4543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,992,2088,233],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-central","tag-mayors-sacking","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kiir summons Central Equatoria governor over mayor\u2019s sacking - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Salva Kiir Mayardit has summoned the governor of Central Equatoria state Emmanuel Adil Anthony just a day afte ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kiir summons Central Equatoria governor over mayor\u2019s sacking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Salva Kiir Mayardit has summoned the governor of Central Equatoria state Emmanuel Adil Anthony just a day afte ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-19T15:50:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-19T17:13:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/11\/img-6197db29f32ff.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"542\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kiir summons Central Equatoria governor over mayor\u2019s sacking\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-19T15:50:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-19T17:13:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking\"},\"wordCount\":228,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/11\/img-6197db29f32ff.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"Central\",\"mayor\u2019s sacking\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-summons-central-equatoria-governor-over-mayors-sacking\",\"name\":\"Kiir summons Central Equatoria governor over mayor\u2019s sacking - 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