Former Petroleum Minister Awow Daniel Chuang. (Photo: Courtesy).

The former Minister of Petroleum Awow Daniel Chuang has denied The Sentry report that he requested Trinity Energy to lend his ministry 100 million South Sudanese pounds two years ago.

The Sentry revealed that on July 10, 2020, former minister Awow Daniel while in office wrote to Trinity Energy boss Akol Ayii requesting “an urgent loan” of 100 million pounds, and equivalent of 621,118 US dollars.

According to The Sentry, the loan was “to support pressing field operational expenses and other projects of the ministry.

The request came a few months after Cairo-based Afreximbank renewed Trinity Energy’s trade finance facility – a 30 million-US dollar loan.

The Sentry report on Tuesday indicated that the letter from the Petroleum Minister did not itemize the operational expenses for which the proposed loan was intended.

Nor the purpose for which it was meant for, yet no schedule for the repayment of the loan was specified.

When contacted, Minister Awow Daniel Chuang described the report, terming it as fake.

“This document circulating on social media is a fake document forged by those who would want to tarnish any progress being made,” he said.

Chuang condemned the “enemies of this country who work tirelessly to destabilize the government through forgery and negative allegations to cripple the country economically and to stop the flow of investors.”

Engineer Awow Daniel Chuang was a former Minister of Petroleum from 2018 to 2020.

In 2020, he was appointed as undersecretary by President Salva Kiir after the establishment of the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity in 2020.

However, in July 2022, he was replaced by Mayen Wol Jong through presidential decree.

Currently Eng. Awow Daniel is serving as technical advisor in the ministry of petroleum.