State Speaker Cancels Members’ Permissions Following a decision by the Assembly Business Committee last week not to proceed for recess, the Eastern Equatoria State Assembly Speaker, Emmanuel Ambrose Ocholimoi, has announced cessation of all permission to Members of Parliament to help attain full quorum as they discuss key policy statements. 30 September 2013
*By Peter Lokale Nakimangole* *TORIT, 30 September 2013 [Gurtong] – *The move according to the Speaker will help maintaining attainment of full quorum by the Assembly during the deliberations upcoming on Ministries’ Policy Statements as all the sessions will be open to interested citizens and the entire public. The leadership of the state Parliament has just announced that the Members of Parliament will not be released for their recess before the imminent deliberations on the State Ministries’ policy statements Therefore, the Speaker has concluded that approaching MPs’ recess will now be subjected to impediment to enable the state Lawmakers deliberate on the Policy Statements. “The Conduct of Business allows for Members of the Assembly to go for recess after every 36 sittings (three consecutive months’ sittings). However the Conduct of Business also allows the Assembly to convene an emergency or extra-ordinary session on request from half of its Members or upon a call from the Governor,” he clarified. The Speaker confirmed that the Assembly has so far covered 36 sittings since the opening of its fourth session by the State Governor Louis Lobong Lojore on the 25th of June 2013. He, however, disclosed that the move follows consultations with the state Governor, who both resolved that the approaching recess will not be possible as it will be deferred because the Members of Parliament have to deliberate and approve all policy statements from the State Ministries reflecting the Fiscal Year Budget for 2013/2014. He said the recent changes in the government that resulted to reduction of Ministries, merging of some Ministries with the new reshuffle became the main cause for the delay where all the Ministers have been charged to develop and present their policy statements and equally expected presentation at Parliament. The Speaker disclosed that the move followed an Assembly Business Committee (ABC) meeting which in its sitting held on Thursday 26th September 2013, decided that the sittings are going to be unusual because Members of the August House would sit for two sessions in a day, one in the morning and another one in the evening beginning from Tuesday 1st of October 2013; Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday per week as usual. Posted in: Home<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx>, Governance<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/6/Governance.aspx>, Parliaments<http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/33/Parliaments.aspx> -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oqyvABq8AEQzLvJNodM-vL%2Bh1bggocRmRo2zBhZWxpJYw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
