Yet White Nile insisted that it had been awarded rights in unorthodox negotiations with Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon a Nuer leader and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior the widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior...
This was unwise given the concerns of John Garang's then deputy Salva Kiir Mayardit now President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) made public at the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army conference in December 2004 about unaccountable business deals contracted by senior SPLM/A members...