Martin Elia Lomuro
Martin Elia Lomuro is a South Sudanese politician. Lomuro is currently the minister of cabinet affairs in the Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity as of 2022. He is also the leader of the National Agenda, a registered political party formally known as South Sudan Democratic Forum, SSSDF.
Controversies
In June 2021 Lomuro's bank accounts with a Kenyan Bank, Cooperative Bank were frozen after he was accused by the Kenya's Assets Recovery Control of an alleged money laundering. But in September of the same year, a court in Nairobi lifted the freeze order after it found Elia was not involved in any form of money laundering.He told a gathering at the launch of his wife’s clothing fashion brand at the Pyramid hotel in Juba in July that he did not corrupt money to help his wife set up a successful business firm bearing the trademark JENM that designs outfits for only women and children raising public suspicions.
Martin Elia Lomuro was part of a committee that extended South Sudan's transitional government by two years, claiming that the decision was taken "to address the challenges that impede the implementation of the peace agreement".