Juba, July 31, 2017 (SSNA) — South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has ordered issues an order, banning all top government officials from using the national army (SPLA) for personal protection.
The order, which was endorsed by the Council of Ministers at a meeting on Friday, prohibited any top government official from using SPLA as a personal guard.
It is not clear if the presidential order applies to SPLM-IO faction led by First Vice President Taban Deng Gai.
However, a senior government official at the ministry of foreign affairs told the South Sudan News Agency that the order applies to all top government officials who hold constitutional posts regardless of their political affiliations.
South Sudan’s information minister Michael Makuey Lueth said the order calls on all top government officials to immediately surrender their SPLA bodyguards.
Makuey stated that the constitution only allows police to be used for personal protection.
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This is now another good step, our people don’t even to know those people at all.
Congratution mr. president 4 your wise moves
You are not everyone’s cup of tea!
[…] South Sudan government officials banned from using SPLA for protection […]
the order will Evans
bce there is not implemention
I don’t think this order will be implemented
2-Aug-2017
HOW SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEES ARE TREATED IN SUDAN
What is going on now in khor warol camp in white nile state of sudan?
sudanese policemen attack the camp where south sudanese refugees shelter . number of young men was wounded and killed, the bodies were carried by the arab soldiers and many were arrested. the situation is unsettle since last evening, where is the government of south sudan, the splm io, all the warring parties. no body cares , where is UN and the international community? where is the media. an action must be taken now, the government in white nile must be charge and held accountable.
why not to go and take them back to south sudan if they really not feeling safe in sudan???