Madam Awut Deng Publishes Bank Account Details in Denial of Corruption
June 23, 2012 (JUBA) – Awut Deng Acuil, a senior member of South Sudan’s governing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), on Saturday published a list of her bank accounts and invited her wealth to be investigated. Acuil is one of 75 top-level government officials who received a letter from South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir asking them to account for $4bn in missing government funds, since the SPLM took power in South Sudan in 2005. She denied involvement in the allegation and is one of the few South Sudanese politicians to declare their innocence after the existence of Kiir’s letter was made public
- Awut Deng Acuil MP letter to Salva Kiir
http://www.sudantribune.com/MP-publishes-account-details-in,43024
Madam Awut Deng, who resigned sometimes back but was recently reinstated in her former ministry, is not sincere, but just selective: what is the proof that those are the only accounts she got? If clearing one’s name is as simple as publishing unverified account numbers, then all the supposedly thieves will go off the hook on day one.
If she is serious about clearing her “clean” name, why doesn’t she take the President to the court of law for alleging that she is corrupt? She would not only clear her names; she will also be compensated for the damaged done unto her “sparkling” names and the records that “speak for itself.”
For the record, Madam Awut Deng, just like most if not all South Sudan ministers and their assistants, is said to have bought a house in Nairobi Kenya, worth about $1.2 million dollars. Is that from her salary and allowances?
It is pointless, if not hypocritical, to publicize selective information when there is no information to the contrary that one has only and only that information–the bank accounts.
And where is the pin number?
By PaanLuel Wel.
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