{"id":43761,"date":"2026-04-01T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=43761"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:31:35","slug":"speaker-kumba-faces-splm-axe-as-caucus-declares-a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/speaker-kumba-faces-splm-axe-as-caucus-declares-a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Kumba faces SPLM axe as caucus declares a vote of no confidence in her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Yiep Joseph<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Parliamentary Caucus has unanimously declared a vote of no confidence in Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Jemma Nunu Kumba.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was reached during a caucus meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir Mayardit, who also the chairperson of the SPLM.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released by the SPLM National Secretariat, members discussed internal issues related to the management and administration of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions however resulted into declaration of vote of no confidence in the speaker of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Caucus members unanimously declared vote of &#8216;No Confidence&#8217; in Rt.Hon. Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA). Rt. Hon. Cde. Jemma Nunu Kumba. As result, the MPs are waiting for the nomination of a new August House Speaker by the SPLM high echelon leadership\u201d the statement partly read.<\/p>\n<p>Although the statement did not specify the reasons behind the decision, the vote underscores growing dissatisfaction within the party over the leadership of the August House.<\/p>\n<p>The vote effectively sets the stage for Nunu\u2019s removal, with members of parliament now awaiting the nomination of a new Speaker from the SPLM\u2019s top leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Given the party\u2019s majority in parliament, its decision is expected to determine the next occupant of the powerful position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yiep Joseph The Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Parliamentary Caucus has unanimously declared a vote of no confidence in Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Jemma Nunu Kumba. The decision was reached during a caucus meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir Mayardit, who also the chairperson of the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/speaker-kumba-faces-splm-axe-as-caucus-declares-a-vote-of-no-confidence-in-her\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/splm-nunu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43763,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761\/revisions\/43763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}