Northern Bahr el Ghazal State Assembly Is Free From Any Political Crisis: MPs
A group of legislators in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State have denied the allegations from their fellow legislators that there is a political crisis at the state parliament. 26 March 2013 The State Assembly Information Committee Chairperson Majang Ngor Kuany disputed to the allegations by members who had walked out of the deliberations while discussing the reinstatement of former MPs. [Gurtong | File] By Abraham Agoth AWEIL, 25 March 2013 (Gurtong)-Last week, a section of members said the parliament is in a political crisis and needs higher authority at the national level to intervene in regards to the changes which happened within the assembly last year. The members were accused of collaborating with other political parties, misbehaving and being disloyal to their party which the victims denied. According to six assembly members, they were in a position to discuss the reinstatements of former colleagues and endorse the letter sent by the president to the governor. Speaking to the press, the Information Committee Chairperson Majang Ngor Kuany disputed to the allegations released by the nine members who had walked out of the deliberations while discussing the reinstatement of the former MPs. “The Assembly is completely free of any political crisis. How can they claim that there is a political crisis yet the SPLM is the only dominant party? We have only three members of the parliament who are from other political parties and an independent candidate; that’s makes a total of four non-SPLM members in the assembly,” he said. Kuany admits that differences are there to be deliberated and brought forward for the consciousness of the wellbeing in any institution and that cannot be termed as a crisis. The state governor Paul Malong was given directives by the president to reinstate the six members and a former speaker who were expelled from the ruling party and lost their parliamentary seats. Kuany urges the members and the citizens to put aside their differences and join hands for nation building. The MP later dismissed the figure of members who walked out during the last week’s deliberation to be five instead of nine as earlier reported. “How can they claim that they were nine? They were not nine but five? Why did they add members who were officially permitted to go on their private issues? They were quoted by other media houses that there were 18 members in the assembly of which they claimed nine of them walked out of the house. This is completely a big lie! There were 30 members of which five of them walked out and the remaining number was still legal quorum constitutionally,” he said. Meanwhile, Hon. Deng Ayom said that the former speaker, Hon. Aguer Wol Aguer reinstatement is an internal duty for the members to decide whether to re-elect him or not. “Aguer’s issue is an isolated case because he is still a member with us here in the Assembly as he still receives his emoluments. How dare that he tells people to have been removed in power, he was constitutionally impeached based on his performance. He should stop misleading people that he was dismissed in the assembly,” he said. On the hand, Hon. Abdurrahman Akot Akok says they are ready to welcome their colleagues as long as they finish their political differences with their party. Posted in: Home, Governance, Parliaments -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
