Press release
A Failed Government in Everything Except in Creating Poverty and Collecting Illicit Money!
(Translated)

Finance Minister Jibril Ibrahim, for the fifth time in a row, boldly increased the price of the customs dollar, which began moving in June 2021, from 28 pounds to 370 pounds, then to 445 pounds, then to 564 pounds, then to 650 pounds. Finally, to 950 pounds!! The first reason for the move was that it was one of the requirements for economic reform, increasing revenues, and stabilizing the exchange rate of the Sudanese pound against the US dollar. Practical experience proved the failure of this policy. The state of the economy did not improve, nor did the exchange rate stabilize. Rather, the exact opposite happened. The dollar exchange rate moved from 47 pounds until it reached 600 pounds before the war, and now it has exceeded three hundred and one thousand pounds.

The corruption of these puppet regimes has become clear, which made Sudan, which is rich in its apparent and hidden wealth, plundering the kafir colonialists through forbidden usurious loans and so-called foreign investment, thus impoverishing the people. Then this cursed war was ignited in implementation of the agenda of the colonial kafir West.

This failed government has failed in everything except creating poverty and collecting illicit money. It failed to carry out its duty to preserve the security of the people and handed them over to the Rapid Support Forces, which resulted in bloodshed, violation of honor, the theft of money and the destruction of property, all of that and more which affected the innocent and defenseless people of Sudan.

To further increase the suffering of people exhausted by war, the government raises the prices of strategic goods. By increasing the price of the customs dollar, which was directly reflected in raising the prices of bread flour, and the price of a cooking gas cylinder has tripled, and there is no consolation for the people of Sudan!

Increasing the price of the customs dollar, in addition to increasing people’s suffering, is forbidden according to Islamic law, as Islam has forbidden the ‘sahib maks’, meaning one who taxes people, (customs). The Prophet (saw), said: «لَا يَدْخُلُ الْجَنَّةَ صَاحِبُ مَكْسٍ»“One who wrongfully takes an extra tax (sahib maks) will not enter Paradise.”

There is no salvation for us except by removing these agent capitalists and erecting the great edifice of Islam. The second Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly-Guided Caliphate) on the Method of the Prophethood, so that a safe and reassuring life may return.

[يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَجِيبُوا للهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ]

“O believers! Respond to Allah and His Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life.” [Al-Anfal 8:24]

Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil)
Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Sudan