Samuel Lony Geng, MP


Map of South Sudan’s Unity State.

Name: Samuel Lony Geng MP

Positions:

Unity State’s Minister of Agriculture and Forestry
Unity State’s deputy chairperson of South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)

Background

The Payinjiar community has written to Unity State Governor Taban Deng Gai on many occassions demanding the removal of current Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Samuel Lony Geng, who also holds the post of deputy chairperson of SPLM in the state. If he was relieved of the one of these positions, people from Payinjiar hope they would be able to have another representative at the top of the state government.

Unity State cuts 5 ministries in order to pay civil servants full salaries
Wednesday 16 January 2013
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich January 13, 2013 (BENTIU) - Parliamentarians in South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State passed a resolution on 11 January downsizing the state government as part of austerity measures introduced after oil-production (...)
Unity: Payinjiar removes education director after corruption allegations
Sunday 28 October 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich October 25, 2012 (BENTIU) - Payinjiar County’s education director has been removed after he was accused of corruption by local teachers who say they have gone unpaid forcing schools in the area to close. (...)
Oil shutdown is correcting tax revenue shortfall in Unity State - official
Monday 21 January 2013
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich January 20, 2013 (BENTIU) - The financial crisis caused by the year-long oil shutdown in South Sudan is forcing Unity state to address the government’s relaxed attitude to tax collection, the state’s minister of (...)
Unity State’s Payinjiar County finally united after 2010 elections
Friday 24 August 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich August 23, 2012 (BENTIU) - Payinjiar County, which has been split politically since controversial elections in 2010 has resolved to unite under the theme: “one government, one SPLM party and one community”, (...)

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