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The Transitional National Legislative Assembly adjourned its Monday sitting citing a miscommunication and poor coordination that prompted a postponement.
The Spokesperson of the National Assembly, John Agany, told The City Review yesterday that the legislators were supposed to have held a joint sitting between the council of states and national legislative assembly but it aborted due to poor coordination.
“Technically, it could have been a joint sitting between the council of states and national legislative assembly but that was poorly coordinated and so they did not meet the process and that called for adjournment of the sitting,” said Agany.
According to Agany, when the president addresses the nation through the national legislatures, the two houses must deliberate the president’s speech to make it the policy of the government by making it a working document. But this never happened.
He revealed that the sitting was adjourned till Friday where the two houses will meet to deliberate the speech of President Salva Kiir.
“The speech of the president which included the question of the unemployment of the youth and question of insecurity, the hardships and also our international community relationships and so on,” he said.
Last week, John Agny, told The City Review on Friday that the agenda for Monday’s sitting was already out and the top of the agenda for the House was the presentation of the joint report of the committee on water resources and irrigation and the urgent motion of logging and deforestation of forests in parts of Eastern Equatoria State.
During the reopening of the parliament on April 3, President Kiir called on parties to embrace democratic ways of solving issues amicably and avoid political violence in all forms and warned lawmakers not to stick to power, stressing that an extension of the transitional period would deny citizens an opportunity to choose their leaders.
The president underscored the need to address the economic challenges terming them urgent.
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