The Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA) Council of Ministers has approved the 2024/2025.
The SSP7.9 billion expenditure estimates, approved on Friday, puts most emphasis on service delivery.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj following the Cabinet’s first session for 2025, GPAA Information Minister Jacob Werchum Jouk, said the budget was unanimously approved after being presented by the Finance ministry and that it will be presented before parliament Monday for further deliberation.
He said the budget will prioritize service delivery and covers the government’s cost of operation.
“The budget will prioritize the delivery of goods and services, operation cost of the government, and salaries for our civil servants. The budget has been divided among the various ministries, commissions, and counties,” Jouk explained.
On the sources of the funds, the minister said they would only rely on the disbursements from Juba.
“We are not able to generate revenues locally because our roads are blocked. We solely rely on the national government to fund us,” he said.
South Sudan announced that oil exports through its northern neighbor resumed last week after nearly a year of disruption due to the Sudanese civil war.
Landlocked South Sudan will begin production with an initial 90,000 barrels per day, the country’s Petroleum Minister Puot Kang announced.
The main pipeline transporting South Sudanese oil for export via Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast was shut down in February 2024 due to damage caused by the armed conflict between Khartoum’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).