President Salva Kiir met with state governors yesterday to discuss the implementation of his new Establishment Order, which creates 28 states in place of the ten existing ones.
According to the president’s press secretary, Ateny Wek, Kiir instructed the governors to form committeees to conduct inventories and split the respective state’s assets such as vehicles. These will then be divided among the newly created states.
Ateny says the governors have also been tasked with sensitizing their people on the new order. He told Radio Miraya in an interview, “The agenda was to discuss how the governors would be going out to sensitize the people and you know each state have been divided into more than two or three.”
“So they want the governors to go back to their areas to form committees that will be sensitizing people and the committees for dividing movable assets because they will have to divide cars.”
Referring to the likely transfer of some officials from current state capital to what are currently county capital, Ateny said, “Some of them will have to operate in very unfavorable conditions but yet they will get it right some time to come because they will have the facilities of being the capital of state and therefore whatever taxes they collect will culminate into creating town within short period of time.”
The meeting in Juba was attended by the 10 state governors and chief administrators of Greater Pibor and the Abyei administrative areas.
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