John Luk Jok

There was ‘a solid group doing the thinking for the South’ commented one long-standing SPLM official citing party Secretary General Pa’gan Amum Okiech Justice Minister John Luk Jok and Information and Broadcasting Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin Bil all SPLM veterans...

• John Luk Jok Justice (no change; earlier Oil): lawyer; GUN Jonglei Nuer joined Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol Ajawin in 1991 split but returned to SPLM; now seen as a force behind SPLM dominance; critics blame him for Transitional Constitution’s centralising powers; former SPLM representative London when Peckham resident...

John Luk Jok (widely but not always favourably known as the ‘Minister of Oil’) leaves Energy and Mining and takes his lawyer’s skills to the Justice Ministry; he lost his bid for an Upper Nile governorship...

He and John Luk Jok a Lou Nuer from Akobo senior SPLM official former minister and former SPLM representative in Britain have weeded out critics of the leadership and those close to Riek and Paulino in the selection of party-endorsed candidates...

Energy Minister John Luk Jok (a lawyer former SPLM London representative and short-term member of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's breakaway faction in the early 1990s) sits on the Nilepet board and is therefore responsible both for selling oil and regulating its sale...

Energy & Mining: John Luk Jok; SPLM; one of two SPLM Nuer in GNU; reportedly refused post; lawyer qualified in petroleum law; seasoned politician...

After the assassination in 1996 of William Nyuon Bany (a chameleon figure sometimes seen as commander of the pro-SPLA wing of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's Southern Sudan Independence Movement) his replacement John Luk Jok precipitously declared unity with the SPLA...