February 14th 2019 (Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s ruling elites have hijacked the country’s institutions and stoked violent conflict committing atrocities, the enough project said in a report on Tuesday.
“In South Sudan’s system of violent kleptocracy, leaders have hijacked institutions and stoked violent conflict, committed mass atrocities, and created a man-made famine. Amid the chaos of war, the ruling elites ransacked various sectors of the economy,” the report said.
“South Sudan’s violent kleptocracy has distorted the country’s institutions, heaping catastrophic consequences on the national monetary reserve and creating an atmosphere in which too many hands are left to freely and repetitively reach into the public treasury with impunity,” the report added.
The report said while the business practices undermine the rule of laws, services supposedly for the people of South Sudan remains undelivered.
“Services remain undelivered, business practices undermine the rule of law, and corruption abounds. While poor regulatory mechanisms made it easy to loot the public treasury with little consequence, the ruling elites could have chosen to improve institutions of accountability rather than deliberately disempower them,” it said.
“South Sudan’s leaders have incorporated corrupt practices inherited from the north-south war into the current government,” it added.
