Igga orders public institutions to adapt digitalisation
The Vice President for Economic Cluster Dr. James Wani Igga has directed all government revenue-generating institutions to adapt to digitalization with immediate effect.
Dr. Igga said this would prevent malpractices, enhance efficiency and transparency in service delivery in the country.
He warned those institutions that are resisting adapting to the new e-government system to immediately do so to ease access to government services.
“This is not the first time because I have written to all the government institutions that we must begin to adapt e-government,” said Dr. Igga “This is the directive of the Council of Ministers and it is the law and nobody should go against that,” he stressed.
Dr. Igga added, “Let us bear in mind that this is a cabinet resolution, directing all the institutions in South Sudan. So, we are all under the law, we are subjected to law, every institution and ministry must subject to this new law and directive.”
Speaking during the launch of the e-service system by the Ministry of Investment yesterday, Igga said “institutions must immediately adapt to e-government” and the government would make follow to ensure compliance.
This Ministry of Investment became one of the few government institutions after the National Revenue Authority, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Labour to amply digitalization to provide services.
Dr. Dhiue Mathok Dhiue Minister of Investment said the adaptation of the e-service system will relieve his ministry from corruption as all the institutions’ transactions would now be made available to the National Revenue Authority (NRA).
He said this would ensure direct collection to the government accounts.
Dr. Mathok said the national and foreign investors could now easily and immediately acquire investment certificates online, calling on the line ministries and institutions to employ digitalization to attract mote investors into the country.
He called for the establishment of a one-stop-shop of company registration to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of investors’ registration and certification.
“We believe that the one-stop-shop has to include some of the investment sectors like petroleum, agriculture, the mining, the wildlife because when we issue the certificate, we also make sure that other sectors certify the investors,” Dr. Mathok said.
He said the delay in certifying investors by other investment sectors in the country which sometimes takes about three months for a company to acquire a certificate and letter of no objection, frustrate investors who are willing to invest in South Sudan.
