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JUBA — South Sudan’s Select Committee on Presidential Address to Transitional National Legislature has called on the government to name and shame officials implicated in corrupt practices in the Country.
The committee said naming and shaming corrupt individuals will not only reduce the corruption but will also act as a lesson to others who might have such intentions.
A report by the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan released recently said that political elites had diverted more than $73 million from public coffers and resources without trace since 2018, with at least $39 million being stolen in just two months.
Prof. George Bureng Nyombe, Chairperson for Committee called on the government to empower National Anti-Corruption Commission to boost the fight against corruption in the country.
“To name and shame and public the names of those who were convicted of corruption and recover all stolen assets,” Nyombe said in a recommendation of the committee presented to parliament on Monday in Juba.
It recommended legal actions against corrupt public institutions and individuals across the country as well as monthly audit.
“Impose monthly audit of financial records of all public institutions in South Sudan and in the event of failure to comply, the Director-General of Audit Chamber in collaboration with Anti-Corruption Commission shall initial legal proceeding against an offending institution,” it said.
The committee stressed the need for the urgent establishment Public Procurement Act to deal with issues of goods and services and the contracting of works.
