Business woman Achai Wiir didn’t pay South Sudan’s UN membership arrears

Fake News!

Business lady Achai Wiir didn’t pay South Sudan’s UN membership debts.

A news story published by a South Sudanese online news outlet on Tuesday, 15^th of February stated that business lady – Achai Wiir cleared South Sudan’s UN membership arrears. When fact-checked by 211 Check, the story is misleading and qualifies under fake news category.

In an exclusive interview with 211 Check on Wednesday, South Sudan’s deputy Foreign Affairs minister – Deng Dau revealed that the arrears where paid by the Ministry of Finance, a statement that contradicts the news story, which indicated that an anonymous official from Foreign Affairs Ministry said the debts were cleared by business lady Achai Wiir.

“It is the Ministry of Finance who paid the debts. All the government obligations are paid through the Ministry of Finance. It was actually $499,000$ that was paid but due to transactions from one point to another, what arrived seemed to be $495,000.

“The Ministry of Finance wired the money to the Bank of South Sudan and the Bank wired it directly to the Account of UN in New York” Deng revealed. 

He added that the Finance Ministry also cleared the African Union arrears.

“Whatever liquid money that has been going out, is the Ministry of Finance that has been paying. Our role is just to receive the communication from the finance but the finance processes the payment and that is how government works” Deng added.

When contacted by 211 Check, Promoter Kay Two, a close person to business woman Achai describe the news as fake.

“I have just seen that post and it a very big lie. We had not seen or done anything like that and so, we disregard. In fact, we are doing to disregard it right now on Achai Wiir’s page” said K2.

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