By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Spokesperson of South Sudan\u2019s National Legislative Assembly (R-TNLA) criticizes the capital, Juba, as the dirtiest city in the world.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Hon. John Agany cited Juba city\u2019s lack of environmental management policies against climate change.<\/p>\n The MP was speaking during a debate on 2022 report presented at an inter-parliamentary conference, on global climate change held in Egypt,<\/p>\n He blamed the Ministry of Environment for failing to expedite the environmental policies.<\/p>\n \u201cJuba is one of the dirtiest cities in the world, very dirty. You smell something everywhere which is not friendly to your nose,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Agany compared South Sudan to small African countries like Rwanda but said in those countries every street is green and dust-free.<\/p>\n He urged the Ministry of Environment to collaborate with the city council to ensure beautification and cleaning.<\/p>\n \u201cDoes our Ministry of Environment have a working policy framework, if it is not there then it is this ministry to be the first institution to be accused,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Joseph Malual, an MP representing Lakes State, criticized the parliamentary tendency to focus on international treaties without considering internal environmental pollution.<\/p>\n Mayen Deng Alier also highlighted the difficulties in waste management in South Sudan, with garbage being overflowing into the environment, causing serious pollution and affecting people’s health.<\/p>\n \u201cAnother problem we are facing is the issue of people crossing the areas around the river such areas should be allowed for trees to be under,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n Deng also observed parliamentary weakness in using technical people to deal with climate change matters, particularly during climate change conferences.<\/p>\n He called for parliamentarians with knowledge of climate change, energy, environment, and petroleum, as generators contribute to carbon emissions in the country, especially Juba.<\/p>\n A global report from May 2023 revealed that Juba is becoming the dirtiest city in East Africa, with garbage overflowing everywhere, including highways and road junctions.<\/p>\n The report also revealed that some cartels are using the River Nile for garbage dumping, while local, county, and national governments refuse to address this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bida Elly David \u00a0 Spokesperson of South Sudan\u2019s National Legislative Assembly (R-TNLA) criticizes the capital, Juba, as the dirtiest city in the world. Hon. John Agany cited Juba city\u2019s lack of environmental management policies against climate change. The MP was speaking during a debate on 2022 report presented at[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19174","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\/10\/Courtesy-Photo-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174","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=19174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19184,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions\/19184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}