Members of the SPLM branch office in Aweil East County, Northern Bahr al Ghazal have threatened to sue their outgoing leader for allegedly misappropriating funds during his tenure.
Information Secretary John Yel Angok said that they are investigating financial impropriety by former branch head Ngong Chan.
“We will ensure that the outgoing leadership and members are audited and taken to the court of law if the investigation finds that they have misused the public resources, especially assets like vehicles and finance for personal benefits,” Angok said Wednesday. “We will not condone and overlook corruption.”
Angok also told Radio Tamazuj that the county’s SPLM branch has a new leadership board comprised of eleven members drawn from eight payams, and is now led by Garang Malong Yor.
However, Ngong Chan, the former head of the SPLM Aweil East branch, said he is still the legitimate leader of the Aweil East branch.
Ngong accusing Angok’s group of making unconstitutional changes in violation of the 2008 SPLM constitution and basic rules.
“You cannot just come and say you don’t like this person and declared removal and make new appointments,” he told Radio Tamazuj. “There is a system and in a system, people follow procedures and processes.”
“What these people are doing is completely out of system and this is why nobody recognizes and accepts what they are saying,” he continued. “The SPLM national secretariat in Juba and the leadership of the SPLM at the higher leader does not recognize all these because they are done without constitutional basis.”