JUBA, South Sudan
The Central Bank of South Sudan has frozen accounts of advocacy groups
in response to its involvement in the People’s Coalition for Civil Action
(PCCA), which called for peaceful protests for regime change.
The
October 6th letter, entitled Directive to Block the Bank Accounts of
Organisation Connected to PCCA, seen by the Sudan Tribune, directed all
commercial banks operating in South Sudan to block bank accounts of
organizations connected to People’s Coalition for Civil Action.
“In
reference to the above-mentioned subject, you are hereby directed to block all
the bank accounts of the below organizations with immediate effect”, reads a
letter signed by Moses Makur Deng, Director General at the bank responsible for
Statistics and research and banking supervision.
Deng
directed all managing directors of all commercial banks to block the bank of
counts of four pro-democracy groups supporting transparency and accountability
in the country.
The four
groups are Sudd Institut, Okay Africa Foundation, Organisation for Responsive
Governance and Foundation for Democracy and Accountable Governance.
The civil
society groups denounced the "bankrupt political system" in South
Sudan and called for peaceful protests for the resignation of President Salva
Kiir and his First Deputy Riek Machar.
However,
the nationwide peaceful protests of 30 August failed to materialize due to the
massive deployment of security forces and preventive arrests across the country.
Amnesty
International, last September, condemned the wave of repression after the
arrest of civil society activists and a politician and the closure of a radio
station and an academic think-tank.
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