Ministers residing in hotels should leave immediately to reduce government expenses, South Sudan opposition leader Peter Mayen Majongdit said on Thursday.
Majongdit made the comments in response to allegations that South Sudan’s Ministry of Health has 5 million SSP in unpaid hotel bills, and refuses to leave or pay.
“What is wrong with staying with their families, it seems whenever one is appointed into a position he sends his family to aboard and continued to stay in hotel at the expense of citizens” Majongdit said in a press release.
The opposition leader claimed that officials are using money for hotels that would have been used for service delivery to locals who are going hungry or without medical services. Majongdit added that the transitional government is unlikely to reform.
“Currently the reforms of (the government) has the highest record of ministers staying in Juba’s most expensive hotels” he said “This is not a reformist ways of doing things,”
He proposed the government should find a place for the ministers to live, or construct a residence.
Majongdit urged South Sudan donors to take note of the nepotism of the transitional government.