South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Friday issued a decree relieving the Deputy Governor of Warrap State, Debora Odul Okeich, and appointed Aluel Garang Garang as the new deputy governor.
The Republican decree was read on the State’s own Broadcaster, SSBC on Friday evening, where President Kiir also fired the Warrap state minister of finance, Madut Tong Akol, and the chairperson of the State Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, Gabriel Anyar Madut.
All three officials were members of the Other Political Parties (OPP), a signatory to the 2018 revitalized peace agreement.
The newly appointed deputy governor of Warrap State was a former football starlet and wife of controversial politician Peter Mayen Majongdit.
Peter Mayen was the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management and also the leader of the OPP.
The newly appointed Deputy Governor, Aluel Garang however is not a member of any political party at the time of her appointment into the political arena.
This is not the first time Kiir has made such a move. In 2018, he fired the governor and deputy governor of the Bank of South Sudan in apparent frustration over the country’s failing economy.
In 2022, he sacked the governor of the central bank and the country’s finance minister after less than a year in office.