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President Salva Kiir Mayardit has sacked and appointed new officials in the Central Bank, Ministry of Finance and Planning, Ministry of Trade and Industry, and National Revenue Authority (NRA).
The series of presidential decrees were issued on the state’s television SSBC on Monday 2nd, October.
Those relieved from duty includes governor of the Central Bank Johny Ohisa and his Deputy Addis Ababa Othow who replaced them with James Alic Garang as the new governor of the Central Bank and Samuel Yanga Mikaya as the new first Deputy Governor of the Central Bank respectively.
The president also sacked the Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA), Athian Ding Athian elevated his deputy Africano Mande to be the Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA).
Kiir named Nyiel Gordon Kuol as the second deputy governor of the Central Bank, Albino Dak Kur as the new deputy Commissioner General of the (NRA), and Malual Tap Diu as the First Undersecretary of Finance in the Ministry of Finance and Planning replaced Kuol Daniel Ayulo.
Mary Akech Taban was also relieved as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and her predecessor was appointed immediately.
The motives prompted President Kiir’s major reshuffled of key financial institutions remains unclear