![President Salva Kiir and former petroleum minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth gestures at each other in Juba at an unknown date in 2017 [Photo via Facebook]](https://i1.wp.com/www.sudanspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/lol_kiir_n.jpg)
Gatkuoth was the oil minister from 2016 to June 2019. He was appointed into the position on the ticket of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) faction led by then First Vice President Taban Deng Gai who replaced Machar following the infamous July 2016 fighting at presidential guards.
Speaking to Sudans Post on Friday evening, one senior government official who refused to be named said Kiir has expressed interest in bringing back Ezekiel Gatkuoth into the government with his reappointment into unspecified senior government position being planned for October.
“The president has made it very clear that he is planning to appoint Amb. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth to the government. According to the information I have, Ezekiel will be appointed around mid-October this year into a very senior government position because several ministers are now seen as not capable y the president,” the source said.
Another senior government official said he has been informed of the president’s plan, but said he has no more details as to when the former minister will be re-appointed into the government saying another official is also expected to be appointed along with Mr. Ezekiel Gatkuoth.
“Actually, I am hearing about that but currently I don’t have more deals as to when and as to which position is going to be given to him. What I am hearing is that the governor of Jonglei state Denay Jock Chagor is going to be appointed to, but I don’t know which position as well he will be appointed to,” the source said.
![SPLA-IO deputy spokesman Col. Lam Paul Gabriel speaks to media about the progress and challenges facing the transitional security arrangement in Juba on October 2, 2019. [Photo by Getty Images]](https://i1.wp.com/www.sudanspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/gettyimages-1173073967-612x612-1.jpg)
![Former SPLM-IO Country Representative to Egypt Maj. Gen. Gatkuoth Biel Nyang. [Photo via Facebook]](https://i1.wp.com/www.sudanspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/241752818_835672173805866_1769525348017093149_n-120x86.jpg)
“South Sudan president plans to reappoint ex-oil minister into gov’t – sources”
Ah ah ah?!!! Let Mr. Salva Kiir and his his bunch of lowly educated fools appoint him and let drill oil in Bentiu, Not in Upper Nile and Jonglei. He was SPLM/A Washington before South Sudan her independence. He is a lowly educated Nuer. just like many of our Nuers ke ke nyantoc. Foreign ministers and diplomats are employed to by their ‘governments and their people’ and that is precise when their citizens lost their documents or passports or travel documents, they can call their embassies or consulates. And issue them new documents.
This practice had been done before Europeans, Americans and their other pieces of trashes, we are ‘ancient Egyptians’.
That Mr. Salva Kiir will again employ that Nuer piece of trash. And then South Sudan and Nuers low lives will in together, Oh really? That is not going to happen under ‘the sun, reason, pure HATRED and RACISM. Mr. Salva Kiir and his bunch of low lives have let our country down and our people down. Our Nuer ke nyantoc have no lives, Here in Jonglei and Upper Nile, no one considers them anything. Our Gambella region, is our Anyuak country, Itang, Tharpam and Bilpam are the only our Nuers ke nynatoc countries. Jebel Bongo, our mighty SPLM/A training center; Gambella, Zink, Panyidu, Dimmo, are our Anyuak community villages