Speaker Seeks President’s Intervention On Judiciary
The Speaker of the South Sudan National Assembly James Wani Igga is seeking the intervention of President Salva Kiir over actions of the Judiciary to the parliament. 25 April 2013 By Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA, 24 April 2013 [Gurtong] - “Your Excellency the President, since our esteemed Judiciary is denouncing the supervision role of the Legislature over its financial operations, I here call up on your kind timely intervention so that our people and the international community at large don’t view our judiciary as unwilling to abide with widely established Rule of Law and norms of good governance,” Igga told President Salva Kiir yesterday before parliamentarians, the executive, Judiciary, diplomatic corps and activists during the reopening of the parliament yesterday in Juba. In the last sitting the Judiciary has explained in bold to the parliament refusing summons by the National House on several issues including matters in the audit reports of the Auditor General, saying it is an independent institution of the government that is not questionable by any government institution. However, the explanation of the Judiciary violates powers of the South Sudan Transitional Constitution which gives the parliament the powers to summon and question any government official or institution over any issue it has realized is of concern. Posted in: Home, 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.
