By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
Speaker of South Sudan parliament has directed the specialized committee on security affairs to investigate an incidence where a lawmaker was harassed by military personnel in Juba. <\/strong><\/p>\n Rt. Hon. Speaker, Jemma Nunu Kumba was prompted by report from a Member of the National Parliament who claimed to have been harassed by an officer in uniform at the entrance to Dr. John Garang Mausoleum.<\/p>\n The speaker, who condemned the act, urged the honorable members to observe ethics until the committee finishes investigating the matter and tables the findings to the August House.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know about this, and it will be solved. The security committee in the house should look into this matter and address it amicably with care and concerns,\u2019\u2019 Nunu said.<\/p>\n Hon. Ajak Abraham Beer, a lawmaker representing Jonglei state, testified that he was assaulted by security personnel upon entry to Dr. John Garang, despite him holding identification card of the national Assembly.<\/p>\n \u201cI was recently harassed by a military officer as I was trying to access entry to Dr. John Garang Mausoleum. I tried to produce my Identity card as a lawmaker, but they did not value it instead abused,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n The lawmaker lamented that it looks inhuman for military officers to undermine Members of parliament because of using poor means of transport.<\/p>\n Noting that as a part of the three pillars of the government, Members of Parliament deserve respect from the national army.<\/p>\n Hon. Ajak echoed that majority of legislatures suffer different kinds of assaults by military officers along the highways as well as diplomatic scopes.<\/p>\n However, Hon. Ajak did not clarify the occasion that led to his assault neither did he figure out the unit of the officers who subjected him into mockery.<\/p>\n Recently, parliamentarians slammed national traffic police against illegal collection of fees and levying charges on lawmakers and foreign drivers with no clear justification.<\/p>\n However, Lawmakers at the Transitional national legislative assembly(R-TNLA) were shocked on hearing the ugly subjection of their colleague to humiliation.<\/p>\n The House advocated for immediate intervention of the parliamentary administration into the matter.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bida Elly David Speaker of South Sudan parliament has directed the specialized committee on security affairs to investigate an incidence where a lawmaker was harassed by military personnel in Juba. Rt. Hon. Speaker, Jemma Nunu Kumba was prompted by report from a Member of the National Parliament who claimed[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Nunu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14782,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions\/14782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}