South Sudan’s assembly speaker assumes office
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August 4, 2016 (JUBA) - South Sudan transitional national legislative
assembly held the first sitting Thursday and unanimously endorsed
Anthony Lino Makana as it’s speaker.
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Lino Makana reacts to his nomination to be the parliament speaker at
SPLM Cancus meeting in Juba on July 27, 2016 (ST Photo)
The assembly has been expanded to 400 members from 332 in accordance
to the peace accord. The amred opposition nominated 50 MPs. Only 20
opposition MPs attended the first sitting and were sworn and the 10
others nominated by from other political parties.
It is not clear if the absence of the armed opposition MPs is a
protest to the leadership of first Vice President Taban Deng Gai who
replaced armed opposition leader, Riek Machar.
Makana, who represents Yambio county in South Sudan’s Western
Equatoria, called on the country’s rival forces to cease hostilities
for peace to prevail in the young nation.
"We have to work hard to implement the peace agreement in spirit and
letter. Our people have suffered enough and it is time to end the war
in the whole country," he explained.
The outgoing speaker Mannese Magok Rundial pledged to cooperate with
his successor. Magok, an MP from former Unity State in Greater Upper
Nile Region, had to step down in accordance to the peace agreement
that required a speaker from Equatoria region.
(ST)
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5 August 06:40, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
All smiles!! An appointee of tribal imperiliasts!! What can you do
that the Zandes in particular want and the entire Equatorian community
in general? A slave always serves the needs of his master. That is
what a present speaker is!! We call for liberally democratically
elected representative of the people to occupy that high office and no
one else!! It is a fight for democracy.
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5 August 08:52, by Eastern
Dramatists doing what they do best......
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