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South Sudan President Fires Entire Cabinet
President Salva Kiir Mayardit dismisses his vice president along with the entire cabinet in government “reshuffle”.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dismissed Vice President Riek Machar Teny, along with all his cabinet ministers.
Kiir issued a presidential decree on Tuesday which also removed all deputy ministers of the government, local media reported.
“President Kiir wants to make a major reshuffle, so from the vice president downwards, all national ministers and deputy ministers have been removed,” Barnaba Marial Benjamin, told AFP news agency. Benjamin was, until his suspension on Tuesday, the information minister and government spokesman.
The move has been called a “reshuffle”, and has been expected, but there have been no appointments to replace those dismissed.
The government is currently being run by under-secretaries until further notice.
Kiir also reduced the number of ministries in his government from 29 to 18, though it was not yet clear which ministries had been cut, with no reasons provided for the changes.
Benjamin told AFP news agency that the president had acted within his constitutional mandate.
“It is his constitutional mandate to form and dissolve a government.”
The now dismissed also said that “some of these people will come back and some will not.”
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Wezzy
July 24, 2013 at 12:36 am
Wish is was in our mother Zambia where this happened #sobbing#
Wezzy
July 24, 2013 at 12:37 am
Wish it was in our mother Zambia where this happened #sobbing#
THE OVERSEER
July 24, 2013 at 7:10 am
This not right and unacceptable and useless.THe president has failed to rule himself and he must resign.He iS silly and careless
kaps
July 24, 2013 at 8:57 am
May be he want to involve youths in ministerial positions as this could be a right move of which we are waiting pa zed to happen.
Mwana T B Joshua
July 24, 2013 at 12:31 pm
My Papa T B Joshua has already given a prophecy (14th July 2013 service) that this is what will help the world.Youths should be given deputy ministerial posts and graduates descent jobs failure to which there will be protests in the world that will lead to a revolution.He said that this will start in different countries until people stop being afraid of death. Watch and pray!
AFP
July 24, 2013 at 10:58 am
iyi eeeeh BOOM iyi
JUDGE CHIKOPA
July 24, 2013 at 11:47 am
SATA DO THE SAME…………YOUR CABINET TOO BIG
Mwana T B Joshua
July 24, 2013 at 12:28 pm
When God speaks the wise listen. Are these not the protests that T B Joshua has prophesied about? Watch and pray
Satish
July 25, 2013 at 5:28 am
TBJ is for idiots
made to love
July 25, 2013 at 8:47 am
sathish be careful! you will eat those words!