19/03/2025
CORRUPTION NETWORK IN THE MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM.
PART 1. SUDD PETROLEUM OPERATING COMPANY (SPOC).
Your Excellency, President Salva Kiir Mayardit, we are aware of your leadership where you are always relieving those who are involved in malpractice. We SPOC Subcontractors employees, both Tharjath and Mala Oilfields, are seeking the removal of Eng. Diew Charow Walok, the recently appointed VP of SPOC.
The removal of Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar as the Vice President of SPOC, was ostensibly motivated by the desire of Mr. Saber Ojak to exploit manpower contracts for personal gain. Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar had previously made significant adjustments to the salary structure for subcontractors, with SPOC offering a package of 180 United States Dollars per day, amounting to 5,400 United States Dollars per month for National employees. 1,000 USD per Day, which sums up to 30,000 USD per month for expatriate employees. During a management meeting, Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar reinstated the salaries of operators, technicians, and other national personnel from 700 USD to 3,500 USD, allowing subcontractors to retain 1,900 USD as administrative and profit margin. Companies implicated in underpaying operators include PETROTECH, owned by Eng. Ayuel Ngor, and Eagle Services, owned by Eng. Diew Charow Walok. Dietman Nile and B&S, Who were given contracts, are also among the companies involved in this practice over the past three years. The agreement, signed within the last three years, involved Eng. Ayuel Ngor MD of NILEPET, Eng. Deng Lual Undersecretary of Petroleum and Eng. Diew Charow. During WNPOC, which is now SPOC, there were initially 500 and 200 Permanent positions, respectively, including Sudanese employees who have since departed, with their roles outsourced to foreigners, leaving South Sudanese individuals unemployed.The deal for outsourcing was a completed deal involving the PETRONAS and OVL Country Offices and SPOC where Malaysian and Indian Nationals were employed. The OVL Chairman, Mr. Rengit John, has been accused recently during their visit to Tharjiath and Mala oilfields where the Technicians had raised their grievances, but instead of listening to the field staff's grievances, he suggested that such issues would be discussed in Juba.
However, after arrival to Juba, OVL went to MoP and complaint why SPOC Vice President Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar, who had been rescuing the South Sudanese regarding their compromised organizational chart as well as their salary structure based on the Unified Human Resources Policies Manual removed?,We are also aware that OVL was not happy due to the audit findings where Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar was trying to adjust Nilepet crude sale proceeds, which had been taken by PCNL and OVL since July 9, 2011, worth 23,000,000 USD and to adjust 61,000,000 USD expenditures to balance the Account of NILEPET. For this reason, OVL had influenced Eng. Ayuel using the SPOC failure to reduce WPB in 2024. How come SPOC could reduce the budget for projects which are in progress? The budget for OVL was a planned strategy to ensure that the Auditors who are Mr. Gatkuoth Kun and Mr. Dhieu Dok, were not in SPOC before the adjustment exercise in April 2025 after the Partners Audit closure. It was also confirmed that rejected audit findings from WNPOC between January 1, 2008, to July 8, 2011, worth USD 130,000,000 million. In addition, pre-incorporation expenditures worth 8,000,000 and accelerated expenditures worth 8,800,000 USD were brought to inflate the expenditures for the government of South Sudan at the watch of Eng. Deng Lual. The adjustment for all the money mentioned above would have reduced the total recoverable expenditures from the Ministry of Petroleum by USD 150,000,000 Million and reduced the NILEPET'S Account by 25,000,000 USD where by December 31, 2024, following the adjustment, the NILEPET'S Account would have been zero. Therefore, instead of protecting Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar, Vice President for SPOC, Undersecretary of Petroleum Deng Lual Wol recommended Diew to facilitate and maintain the Corruption network in SPOC. We, SPOC subcontractors’ staff who have been mistreated, demand the removal of Eng. Diew Charow and reinstated Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar as SPOC Vice President. We are also demanding the relief of Eng. Deng Lual, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Eng. Ayuel Ngor, Nilepet Managing Director to rescue the oil Sector. Transferring Two qualified Auditors, Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar and Mr. Dhieu Dok, before completing their two tenures in SPOC has raised an eyebrow at the massive corruption that has been going on in SPOC for Years.
Your Excellency,
We are asking your administration wise to intervene with immediate effects to rescue the dying oil sector from Deng Lual and his extended corrupt network. Eng. Diew and Mr. Saber are terrorizing SPOC by attempting to terminate the permanent and temporary contract of employees which was signed by Mr. Gatkuoth Kun Dar. We are calling OVL headquarters to withdraw the secondment of those who have been involved in the corrupt practices, I.e., Mr. Rengit John, Mr. Gajendra, the Exploration and Development General Manager who has only one employee in the Exploration department, and he is now doing the job for finance and administration instead of technical jobs. Mr. Rengit John has been violating EPSA, TA, JOA, and JOCSA at the expense of PCNL share transactions to NILEPET. JOA has clearly stated that if one partner leaves, the other remaining partners have to continue. The question here is why the OVl Country chairman operates alongside MoP by following Eng. Deng Lual’s directives rather than following the policies and procedures? Why does OVl retain Mr. Gajendra, who has been accused and summoned by the Corruption agency over the three years of advance payment of millions of dollars for group medical insurance?
By: SPOC Subcontrators Employees
