{"id":59,"date":"2026-06-18T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:12:48","slug":"president-kiir-directs-acceleration-of-civil-service-reforms-and-salary-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"President Kiir Directs Acceleration of Civil Service Reforms and Salary Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0fb5ea90-87be-47a0-8001-7c62e721f09b.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0fb5ea90-87be-47a0-8001-7c62e721f09b.webp 1200w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0fb5ea90-87be-47a0-8001-7c62e721f09b-300x169.webp 300w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0fb5ea90-87be-47a0-8001-7c62e721f09b-1024x576.webp 1024w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0fb5ea90-87be-47a0-8001-7c62e721f09b-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Juba, May 4, 2026 &mdash; The Minister of Public Service, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, has briefed His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit on the progress of the ongoing biometric registration exercise and the challenges affecting salary payments for civil servants across the country.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Minister Lol outlined the steps being taken to modernise the public service payroll while noting existing gaps that have delayed timely disbursement of salaries and arrears. He reaffirmed the government&rsquo;s commitment to reforms aimed at strengthening accountability and efficiency within the public service.<\/p>\n<p>Following the briefing, President Kiir directed that the Ministry of Finance and relevant financial institutions begin implementing the necessary measures to ensure the prompt payment of salaries and outstanding arrears owed to civil servants. He stressed that timely payment remains a priority for maintaining a functional and motivated public workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions also touched on preparations for the upcoming elections, with emphasis on creating conditions that will allow the people of the Republic of South Sudan to freely go to the polls in December this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba, May 4, 2026 &mdash; The Minister of Public Service, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, has briefed His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit on the progress of the ongoing biometric registration exercise&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}