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MPs in the first session of 2024 at the New Hall in assembly headquarters in Juba. [Photo: Dedi Samuel]
The National Assembly in its first 2024 sitting tabled the speech of President Salva Kiir before a new committee headed by Deng Ayuel to be scrutinised so that it becomes a policy document of the government.
Addressing the media yesterday, the Spokesperson of the National Assembly, John Agany, said the committee would ensure that the final document is out for its subsequent adoption.
“The speech of the president has been already tabled today (yesterday) and the Rt Hon. Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba has committed to the new committee formed to discuss and tackled, and it will become a policy framework which the government will use,” Agany said.
Agany said the committee would look at the security sector, food security, and more importantly the preparation for the upcoming general elections in South Sudan.
“As national legislature, we will take up this task and we will make it a workable framework for the government. We will ask all the government institutions and sectors that we must be following exactly what the president, the father of our nation has voiced out.”
According to Agany, the country needs peace, harmony, and food production to heal from all the crises facing South Sudan.
The committee is given two weeks to scrutinise the speech and present its report back to the assembly.
However, the Speaker of the Assembly, Jemma Nunu Kumba, revealed that the Parliament lost some members and staff of the assembly during the recess.
“We lost some members during the recess Mr. Edward Lomude and also our colleague Hon Deng lost his dear wife,” she recalled.
On April 3, 2-24, President Kiir inaugurated the National Assembly and called on parties to embrace democratic ways of solving issues amicably, and avoid political violence in all forms and warned the leaders not to stick to power, stressing that an extension of the transitional period would deny citizens an opportunity to choose their leaders.
During the inauguration of the Parliament earlier this month, Kumba also pledged support for President Salva Kiir and the First Vice President Riek Machar that the lawmakers would devote their efforts to supporting the peace initiatives.
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