South Sudan President Issued A Public Apology To Civil Servants Over Six Months Salary Delay

South Sudan President publicly apologized to the civil servants over delay to pay the civil servants salary arrears for six months.  

Kiir made the speech during South Sudan independence day celebrations in Juba and assured the civil servants that their outstanding salary will be paid in full soon.  

President Kiir also said that he understands the living conditions in the country and blame it to the civil war tearing the nation apart.  

“I am fully aware that our people are hungry because of the difficult living conditions imposed upon them by insecurity and economic hardships. This is further exacerbated by the failure of my government to pay the salaries of our civil servants on time. However, that salary maybe little, It does make some difference in the livelihood of the families of our civil servants.” 

“I want to sincerely apologize to you my people on my own behalf and on behalf of the government for those failures.”

“My government undertook several resolutions directing the ministry of finance and planning to pay all the outstanding arrears of our workforce and scheduled prompt payment of salaries to the employees of the government Republic of South Sudan at both the national and states level of the government.” 

Finance Minister Salvatore also said that “The first two months had already been paid, we are now going to two months, which one month is going to be started tomorrow, then the second month.”

The Finance Minister reiterated that “They may confuse that may the employees may be told its only one month. But if the first one is finished then the employees will know which months are coming. So now we are in the third month for salaries payment, and the fourth one is coming. It’s already approved yesterday,” said the minister of finance and planning.

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