Eye Radio: Kiir gives Igga green light to introduce economic reforms

President Salva Kiir has instructed the Economic Cluster of the transitional government to proceed with the economic reform agenda, following weeks of assessment of national revenue stream.

“We are making a lot of changes, a lot of reforms and he [Kiir] has blessed all these reforms as we put them into recommendations to him,” Dr. James Wani Igga, head of the Economic Cluster told SSBC on Thursday.

In July 2020, the Economic Cluster subcommittee conducted investigations on all revenue collection points to assess the amount being collected and how revenues are remitted into the public account.

In its preliminary findings, the committee stated that import taxes among others are still being channeled into private bank accounts.

It called for a thorough investigation into non-oil revenue theft that is believed to be diverted from the designated official account…

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