Custom demote officers lodge complaints against boss
Juba, Ater Garang Ariath
The South Sudan custom officers lodge bitterly complaints against the overall authority in charge of the custom for what the called illegal employment of new recruits and keeping cheating the long experience officers who work there for years.
According to disgruntled group of annoys officers who appeals for the conditions of anonymity to the Citizen Newspaper yesterday said that the government needs to reexamined the custom in order to achieved professionalism and transparency system.
We are about fifty five trained customs officers who demoted by the former chairman of a committee formed by President Kiir decree with abusively used the position to promote corruption in the custom, they group allegedly claimed.
They group pointed out that John Mayen Wol Jongkor the former chairman of committeewho believe to hails in Warrap state jointly agreed with James Yuang Anyieth, the ex-Director General for South Sudan Customs to removed all the customs officers who were employed in 2007 on the pretext of being taken for training.
However, Yuang later briefed the officers at his office in Juba clearly pressed we were to go home until further notice, after some days he was sacked in 2010 following his massive alleged of embezzlement of 3.5 billion SDG equivalent to South Sudanese pounds leading to the worst financial reports from customs contribution to the national budget low as 3%, the group details.
The group further indicated that at the midst of the task to completed Mayen Wol Jongkor went to his home village of Warrap state with the full list of all the customs staffs including the officers they had removed which peak up a figure of 205 in all customs points and illegally replaced 70 officers with his close relatives including his son, Jongkor Mayen Wol and recruited many more to raise the total of 439 officers.
He then took the list to the President to sign having cheating the head of the nation that the work was completed and the number of the officers was as presented and President Kiir signed and issued a decree No 08/2011 for permanent appointments, they group further said.
A few days after this achievement he called the officers whom he had left out and pretended to be sorry and that something fishy must have been the reason behind their exclusion pointed that academic documents must have been the major problems, although most of the neglected group hold degrees, diplomas and form four certificated, they group alerted.
The claimers expresses that to adds further disappointment to the above the Director General of Customs Malek Guot Malek from the same Warrap state told the left out officers that they have ceased receiving their monthly salaries they wait for their appointments to be made.
They vows war against corruption urging that they may cooperate with all South Sudanese to fight corruption together as they liberated this country together.
