Henry Odwar, deputy SPLM-IO leader, resigns as minister of mining  owing to health issues

Henry Odwar, deputy chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO), has resigned as South Sudan’s mining minister due to deteriorating health condition.

In the letter, no explanation for resigning was given, but according to the information reaching NCMP, Odwar has been out of the country for treatment for almost nine months now

Odwar, the second-most senior SPLM-IO official, announced his retirement in a short resignation letter received by NCMP.

“As of today, 24.00hrs. Henry Dilah Odwar resigns as mining minister on August 11, 2021,” Odwar stated in a short resignation letter obtained by NCMP.

See his resignation letter below: