Northern Bahr el Ghazal State MP Garang Majak Bol Dismisses Allegations of Money Counterfeits
Ater Garang Ariath
13 January 2012
Juba — Northern Bahr el Ghazal State MP Garang Majak Bol dismissed the allegations brought against him by three Ministers who convened a press conference on Tuesday at Home and Away Business Centre in Juba striking back at the serious allegations uttered first by him against the cabinet.
The lawmaker expressed that the State cabinet ministers were under the governor’s camp and alleged that he was against the massive corruption and there was an imminent failure to administering the State effectively.
He refuted that the accusations that he was linked with money counterfeit dealers and described this allegation as a concocted story to divert public attention. This is a shallow political propaganda against me, because the President of the Republic of Kenya knows that the President of South Sudan, Foreign Minister and Ambassador to Kenya and if there is such an illegal dealing these figures should be notified by Kenyan authority first before reaching the State in Aweil.
The MP asked the relationship between Northern Bahr el Ghazal State and Kenya, and pointed that the political ties between the two countries is between the national government in Juba and that in Nairobi.
“It does not concern the northern Bahr El Ghazal State,” Bol said. He demanded that the governor of NBGS should apologize to the Kenyan authority of using its name in a misleading statement that the Kenyan President wrote a letter to him seeking him Bol to be arrested for money forgery. The forged money that was displayed by the Minister of Finance, Trade and Industry in Juba had never come from my house, because when the security searched they never showed me such money and this story was fabricated, said the MP.
The source of this money is the Minister of Finance and he will be held accountable for this counterfeit money, adding that the MPs have condemned the Press conference held in Juba and the move taken to twist the story around, said Bol.
The State Minister of Finance, Trade and Industry Ronald Ruay Deng, together with Minister of Information and Communication, Bona Makuach Mawien, Minister of Physical Infrastructure, Peter Kuot Jel and Cabinet Secretary General Garang Kuot Kuot dismissed allegations of corruption leveled against the government especially against the minister of finance and attempt assassination against Bol on Tuesday.
The Minister of Finance categorically refuted claims made by the MP alleging him of misappropriation of the public funds and pointed that he was not aware of any instances where the Governor Paul Malong Awan has by any act or omission interfered with MPs in the discharging of their constitutional mandates. He accused Bol of having political ambitious to pursue the portfolio of the Ministry of Finance, Trade and Industry and acknowledged the differences between both of them since they both come from the same constituency.
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