Salva Kiir sacks South Sudan Auditor General

February 20, 2008 (Sudan Tribune)

Salva Kiir Mayadrit the President of Southern Sudan government removed Southern Sudan Auditor General as well as other members of the Audit chamber.The Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) on Wednesday December 12, 2007 passed a vote of no confident in Auditor General of southern Sudan government, Barnabas Majok Barnabas, accused of embezzling public funds and failure to deliver service in auditing government accounts.

Salva Kiir founded his decree to relieve the head and members of the audit chamber on the SSLA vote. He also appointed GoSS Secretary General as a caretaker of the Audit Chamber until the appointment of a new auditor.

The southern Sudan parliament had accused the former auditor general Barnabas of eleven charges including:
Undermining power of GoSS president by removing and suspending presidential appointees without approval of the president, replacing three presidential appointees without the knowledge of the president, promoting William Labi to the position of Deputy Auditor General without presidential decree.
Unprocedural purchased a house for the Audit Chamber at US dollars 395,000 and at the same time needed additional money for renovation of the same house.
Receiving double payments for international trips accounted for by UN and GoSS Chamber of Audit, suspended without pay four presidential appointees on false accusation of misappropriation of US dollars 85,000, - Involved in withdrawal of documents from ministry of finance by using his appointees Mr. William Labi and replaced it with forged documents signed by William Labi, Handling appointments and recruitments into the chamber by himself without involving human resource personnel. - Involved in signing cheques that should have not been done by an auditor for the sake of promoting good accounting system, spending US dollar 160 per day for accommodation and feeding at Nile Comfort Hotel in Juba since the time he was appointed to head GoSS Audit Chamber and awarding unnecessary privileges for members of Audit Chamber amounting to 2000 US dollars per month on accommodations. (ST)