SSBC ridiculed for giving wrong title to Upper Nile state deputy governor

JUBA – South Sudan’s only state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) TV is being ridiculed again for referring to James Tor, the deputy governor of Upper Nile state, as the governor himself and wrongly referring to Upper Nile state as ‘Nile state’.

While broadcasting the daily Arabic news on Tuesday, SSBC editorial crew wrote under footage of Tor as “James Tor, Governor of Nile state.”

Reacting to the mistake, social media activists dived in and decried ‘reckless’ activities of the state-owned broadcasting corporation with one activist urging the ministry of information to replace the management.

“This reckless activities of the SSBC must end. The government or the ministry of information should take punitive measures throwing the state TV to be ridiculed,” one social media user wrote.

Another social media user said the SSBC has only become “a jungle where illiterate are employed at the expense of educated South Sudanese who do not have Zol Kabirs in the government.”

This is not the first time for the SSBC to make such mistake. Last year, netizens where angered after the SSBC gave wrong title to information minister Michael Makuei Lueth as ‘infeerior minister’ and referring to then minister of trade Paul Mayom Akec as ‘minster of tread and indastery.’