Gov’t completion of parliament building nears – lawmaker

JUBA – South Sudan government is closing in on completion of the renovation of the parliamentary building, according to the chairperson of information committee of the recently reconstituted transitional national legislature Paul Yoane.

This is almost three years after the government moved parliamentary sessions to the privately owned Freedom Hall in Central Juba.

Yoane is quoted as saying by Eye Radio that the contractors are working to ensure that the construction of the building of the law-making institution saying the offices have been completed remaining with the house chamber.

“The technicians are working around the clock to ensure that chairs are probably fixed and the AC are fixed, to accommodate the number which is in the new revitalized TNLA. The offices are almost done, what is left now is the chamber or the hall,” he said on Friday.

Yoane further said the next sitting of the parliament will be on the building instead of the Freedom Hall.

“They are now working to ensure that the hall is completed so that in the coming sittings, we don’t go necessarily to the freedom hall,” he said.

“Once it is done, the honorable members will be conducting their parliamentary roles, the oversight role, following up with the ministries within these premises. But at the moment, we will still be going to hall until the hall is completed,” he added.