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Deng Tiel Ayuel, chairperson of parliamentary committee on legislation and legal affairs, will lead the 23-member committee tasked with scrutinizing President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s speech of April 3, 2024.
Speaking to during a session today, the minister of parliamentary affairs Mary Nawai introduced the motion, saying Kiir’s speech addressed diverse issues including socioeconomic conditions, security, and the political landscape.
“The speech of the president declared and encouraged the citizen of this country to embark on agriculture because agriculture is the backbone of this country,” Nawai added. “The speech of the president talks about elections – that we should prepare the election.”
“With these few remarks, I move that the speech of the president be discussed in accordance with regulation 15 number 5,” she noted.
Lawmakers also approved a motion by Nawai for a vote of thanks on the president’s speech. Traditionally, the legislature sends the president’s speech to a select committee for discussion.
Parliament’s speaker John Agany said, “The speech of the president has already been tabled today and the Rt. Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba has submitted it to the newly formed TNLA ad hoc committee to discuss, scrutinize the president’s speech.”
“And on that regard, it will become the policy framework which will be used by the government especially [in the areas of] security, food security which the president mentioned clearly that we should have agriculture as [the] backbone,” he added.
Agany stressed that parliament will ensure the president’s speech becomes a workable framework for the government.
“We will ask all the sectors, the government institutions, that we must be following exactly what the president has voiced out – we need peace in the country, and we need to be in harmony and also need to put food on the table,” he said.
The select committee will analyze the document for the next seven to fourteen days before reporting back to the national legislature for approval and its adoption as a guiding document for the government.
didn’t talk of cows moving in garden to move back to their original place where agriculture is the backbone
All violence in South Sudan are being investigated by poverty, food insecurity, lack of nationalism and lack of patriotism; should South Sudan embark on agricultural, the more likely they address the root causes of all this senseless violence!
Chol Dongwei, is a South Sudan nationalist residing in, USA.
Insecurity is the only one that cannot allowed people to back to agriculture . arrengement of security is best way to citizens of south sudan and free movement acrose the nation .In the bible we wrote meaningful words that leaders of nation must put all need negitively things inorder to let citizen free atleast . Im feel ashame when i see out poeple suffering while we have prisedent.
That’s great idea to hear from our leader of south sudan for sure thats what we are crying for.lets develop south sudan together in order to achieve what we can.i’m residing from washington!