Salva Kiir Mayardit Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==== Consolidation of power ==== After rumours about a planned coup surfaced in Juba in late 2012, Kiir began reorganizing the senior leadership of his government, party and military on an unprecedented scale. In January 2013, he replaced the inspector general of the national police service with a lieutenant from the army, and dismissed six deputy chiefs of staff and 29 major generals in the army. In February 2013 Kiir retired an additional 117 army generals but this was viewed as troublesome in regards to a power grab by others. Kiir had also suggested that his rivals were trying to revive the rifts that had provoked infighting in the 1990s.<ref name=guardian20130724/> On 7 May 2013 Kiir dismissed legal advisor Justice [[Ajonye Perpetua]] and deputy Foreign Minister [[Elias Nyamlell Wako]]. Kiir had announced that he would no longer tolerate criticism by members of his cabinet.<ref name=crisiswatch201305>{{citation |url=https://www.crisisgroup.org/crisiswatch/database?page=1&location%5B0%5D=13&da= |publisher=International Crisis Group |date=May 2013 |accessdate=2023-09-25 |title=South Sudan}}</ref> In July, Kiir sacked his entire cabinet, leading experts to warn of upcoming "a full-blown catastrophe".<ref name=guardian20130724>{{Cite web |date=2013-07-24 |title=South Sudan president sacks cabinet in power struggle |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/24/south-sudan-salva-kiir-sacks-cabinet |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> In December 2013, Kiir accused his vice President and other Party members of plotting Coup' leading him to arrest those politicians<ref>{{Cite web |title=Final report of the African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan - South Sudan {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/south-sudan/final-report-african-union-commission-inquiry-south-sudan |access-date=2023-01-19 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page