South Sudan: IGAD letter to NAS – Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka – “Re: Invitation to a meeting in Addis Ababa” (01.03.2019)

South Sudan: Pastoral Message from the South Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Meeting Juba, 26th-28th February 2019 (28.02.2019)

Uganda Revenue Authority: Press Release – Temporary Diversion of Traffic to Mirama Hills-Kagitumba Border (28.02.2019)

Opinion: President Kenyatta’s corruption fight is like a mirage

If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.” Alexander Hamilton

After the recent weeks and the new fancy scandals, you can pound and wonder, where is there no corruption, Mr. President?

The President, I am asking today is President Uhuru Kenyatta and his administration. The Jubilee has a special feature, they have a own slogan of fighting corruption, while amassing more of them at the same time. They are capturing the headlines nearly daily.

President Kenyatta and Deputy President Ruto are in the wind, they are battling a big monster, which themselves are contributing too. They are trying to play the card of battling it, while they are feeding it. The Cabinet Secretaries are usually implicated, the Principal Secretaries are as well.

The government are doing it all ways possible, by borrowing money for ghost projects like ghost-dams, which has been revealed recently. The state has taken giant loans from Eurobonds twice and still configured ways to siphon the funds away from the government. The Jubilee have eaten directly from the investment funds directed to youth employment. The Jubilee have been able to take away from health care procurement and waste funds there, instead of helping the sickly in dire need.

This is how we can go-on. This is a continued saga that never stops. While the Jubilee have a stark rise in corruption, at the same time, the state has taken out more and more debt. Therefore, the state is not only owning the creditors more money, but they are also wasting the loans. Which the state will pay back with interests after the grace period. This is will backfire on the next cabinets and next state officials, as they will have to clear the debts and find revenue to repay them. If not sell collateral- or assets. This will really be devastating.

Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto will downplay the indirect bribes, graft and corruption done by their officials, they will say it is less or not really allocated. They will act a fool, but at the same time attack the cause and say they are dealing with it. By going after the minor cases or small fry, they are going after the chicken thief or the small businessmen who does it to be able to trade on the market. However, the ones who runs the market and runs the “monopoly” imports are in the pocket of the administration, and will will not be touched.

As long as Cheech and Chong is running this Republic. The growth of the corruption will continue to rise. As their businesses are growing, their empires are getting stronger. The two leaders are grabbing more land, more government tenders and even development projects. That is what the President and Deputy does. While the Jubilee says they are fighting it.

Therefore, as long as these two are running the government. Expect more graft, bribes, kick-backs, siphoned funds and ghost projects. There will ghost everywhere, the cronies will create straw/shell companies who siphon funds… this will occur again and again. The state will give- or loan for non-function development projects/organizations, whose supposed to do something, but in reality it will be a figment of imagination. It will be a make believe like a mirage. It will only be in the vision of the person hinging for water, but when the person arrives to the mirage. There will be no water, but only more hot-sand. This is what the Jubilee does to the public.

The Jubilee is offering a mirage to continue … and hoping no one is feeling the hot-sand, but believing in the mirage. Peace.

Rwanda Revenue Authority: Public Announcement on construction of a One Stop Border Post at Gatuna Border Post (28.02.2019)

South Sudan: SSNDA Leadership Meeting with the IGAD Special Envoy for South Sudan (27.02.2019)

South Sudan: Twic Mayardit letter to Twic state Local Government – “Objection into forceful recruitment or enrolment to the armed services in Twic state” (26.02.2019)

South Sudan: Press Statement by the SPLM/A-IO (TGoNU) Vote of No Confidence on the Leadership of Gen Taban Deng Gai as the FVP, Chairman and Commander-in-Chief of SPLM/A IO and the Formation of the New Interim Governing Council (IGC) to Manage the Affairs of the Party (25.02.2019)

South Sudan: FVP Gen Taban Deng Gai – Press Statement (26.02.2019)

South Sudan: Maribor Garang de Maribo – Public Service Announcement – The Failure of the SPLM and the Illusion of SPLM Reunification (22.02.2019)