MPs Seeking To Increase Their Salaries Members of Parliament in the two houses are seeking to increase their salaries and other allowances in the next financial budget by amending the South Sudan Emolument Act of 2010. 28 August 2017 MPs Seeking To Increase Their Salaries The parliament during a session on Monday [Photo by Jale Richard]
By Jale Richard JUBA, 28 August 2017 [Gurtong]-The MPs including members of both the Transitional National Legislative Assembly and the Council of States have long been complaining of allowances, and unpaid entitlements. Speaking during the presentation of the budget in the third stage, Speaker Anthony Lino Makana assured the MPs that their entitlements will be considered in the next budget if they amend the emolument act of 2010. “After passing the budget, the first agenda will be the amendment of the Emolument Act,” Speaker Makana said. “It will be tabled immediately to enable the members of parliament get their emoluments,” he said. During the second reading of the budget, several members of parliament raised concerns over their emoluments, suggesting it should be passed together with the budget. However, the Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Anthony Lion Makana yesterday said that he cannot solely include the emoluments of the Members of Parliament because the law requires amendment of the Emolument Act, to be tabled by the Minister of Cabinet Affairs. “The issue of your emolument this is your constitutional right and when the time comes you will get it,” Makana said. “It is not clear by how much the MPS need to increase their salaries and other allowances.” The Speaker said the payment of the emoluments of the MPs has been overdue from since 2005 because every time the budget comes it is pushed for next year’s budget. Posted in: Home, Governance -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oq58q%3DY58-cNKWt1Ta5EO3wVURTi_CYJ9VCbMo%3DryKQyg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
