The Minister of Interior tells officials in the Directorate of Customs Service to prepare for change in efforts to save the country from underdevelopment.
General Alfred Lodu Gore decries widespread employment of unqualified old non-productive people rather than providing work for the highly educated youth.
He warns that the presence of unqualified employees is driving South Sudan backward if not averted.
The Minister advises officials of the Customs Service to devise means of improving revenue collection for better service delivery.
General Lodu cautions officials against wasting national resources in foreign medical service instead of improving domestic health facilities.
“Do not sell the national identity to foreigners; jealously guard it as other nationalities do”, General Lodu cautions immigration officials.
He says those involved in trading on the national identity must be punished.
“Exemptions and insecurity are some of the major constraints to the revenue collection” says, Akok Noon Akok, Director-General in the Directorate of Customs Service.
The officials were speaking in a familiarization meeting at the Customs Service office premises in Juba on Wednesday.
The meeting unveiled that Nimule Checkpoint at South Sudan-Uganda border has collapsed because the money goes into individual pockets of the so called ‘untouchable men in the government’.