How Insects Devour South Sudanese’ National Resources: Was Bashir Right After All?
How Insects Devour South Sudanese' National Resources; Was President Bashir Right After All About Insects in Juba?
How Insects Devour South Sudanese’ National Resources; Was President Bashir Right After All About Insects in Juba? How else would one explains the disappearance of over $4 billion and the current concerted attempt by the leadership under President Kiir to shift the goalpost by claiming that the money was lost through a private contract–dura saga, not by the government itself?
That is to say that the private sector, to which the private contractors belong, including you and me, are the corrupt one, not the central government. How ridiculous the claim being advanced by Marial Benjamin, MD, and his cohorts is!!
“Marial said most of these funds were associated with the grain saga known as “Dura saga” of which many companies were expected to be paid after delivering the grain. The Minister said others were paid when they have not delivered the dura and some after delivery and that’s where most funds got lost and which was fraud and misuse.” The Citizen Newspaper, June 14, 2012.
Yet, only $200 million was squandered there, not $4 billion. Besides, are the contracted private companies part of the 75 “current and former senior government officials” identified by President Kiir himself? Additionally, what are the names of the over 700 contracted private companies and who owned them? 700 companies for the distribution of sorghum, really? Does South Sudan have 700 registered private companies known to and trusted by the government?
For the sake of the argument, let assumed that the private companies have indeed anything to do with the disappearance of the public funds. Still, isn’t it interesting that all the 700 private companies known to, entrusted and contracted by the government of the republic of South Sudan turned out to be all thieves? I mean, what does that say about the nature of the identification and the awarding of the dura contracts in the first place? And why is it surfacing now, years after it took place?
The ICC-indicted President Bashir might have hit the nail on the head in as far as the leadership in Juba, minus the general South Sudanese masses, is concerned. Only insects, the locust type in particular, could devour over $4 billion within that short span of time.
By PaanLuel Wel.
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