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Gen. Akol Ayii breaks silence on his removal as customs chief

"I am the first Director General who served in this institution for more than four years and I am consequently thrilled with your respectable leadership for making me to be the utmost serving Director General and confirmed me in June, 2022 as the Commissioner of Customs Service Division when you integrated Customs into NRA."

by Sudans Post
September 7, 2022
Director of South Sudan customs service, Maj. Gen. Akol Ayii Madut, sitting in his office in Juba (Photo via Ministry of Interior)
Director of South Sudan customs service, Maj. Gen. Akol Ayii Madut, sitting in his office in Juba (Photo via Ministry of Interior)

JUBA – South Sudan’s former Commissioner of Customs Service Gen. Akol Ayii has broke silence and welcomed his sacking by President Salva Kiir Mayardit, thanking the head of state for being the longest-serving Director-General of Customs Services in the world’s youngest country.

On Monday, President Salva Kiir Mayardit issued a republican decree dismissing Maj. Gen. Akol Ayii Madut from his position as the Commissioner-General of South Sudan Customs Service.

Gen. Akol’s removal comes exactly two years after a presidential economic crisis management committee recommended the immediate dismissal of the customs chief over apparent allegations of corruption.

Kiir had formed the committee headed by Vice-President James Wani Igga two days earlier with the task to manage economic crisis and streamlining the collection of non-oil revenues.

In a statement, Gen. Akol thanked Kiir and welcomed his sacking.

“Your Excellency, In the previous four years, subsequently 2018, you trusted me with a national responsibility to serve my country under your wise leadership as the Director General of South Sudan Customs Services,” he said in a statement.

“In respect to this, I am writing to express my cheerfulness and appreciations to Your Excellency for having given me such a countless task and obligation to serve our beloved Country under your effective leadership. Thank You, Your Excellency for the trust,” he added.

The former customs chief said “In the history of South Sudan Customs Service. I am the first Director General who served in this institution for more than four years and I am consequently thrilled with your respectable leadership for making me to be the utmost serving Director General and confirmed me in June, 2022 as the Commissioner of Customs Service Division when you integrated Customs into NRA.”

He said through the president’s “patronage, guidance, advice, directives, and teamwork with the Ministry of Finance and Planning. NRA and Economic Management Committee, I managed to implement some improvements in Customs Service, to mention particulars, I constructed and established Customs Offices and Stations across the Country, training of Customs Staff in operational tax collection and management in and out, remittance of tax revenues in the authorized Government bank accounts which resulted to the payment of salaries for the civil servants on time as directed by Your Excellency.”

“I welcome and appreciate your decision and I am ready to continue and serve my Country under your excellent leadership and Government when you offers me obtainable opportunity in the nearest future,” he said.

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  1. Jock says:
    3 years ago

    Don’t worry another good one is on the way

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