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JUBA – South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit has issued several republic decree establishing the transitional government of the country’s restive Lakes state, days after forming those of several other states.
Those appointed include five advisors to the governor, seventeen (17) state ministers, seven (7) country commissioners, and thirty (30) officials to the state independent commissions.
The appointees are representatives of the main SPLM party of the former Interim Transitional Government of National Unity, South Sudan Opposition Alliance, SPLM-IO, Other Political Parties, and the National Agenda, a partner to the former Interim Transitional Government of National Unity.
Upper Nile and Eastern Equatoria are the remaining states to have a reconstituted government.
Local governments in the administrative areas of Ruweng, Pibor and Abyei are also yet to be reconstituted.
