W. Bahr el Ghazal state lawmakers begin three-month recess

August 13, 2015 (WAU) – Lawmakers in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state legislative assembly on Tuesday broke off for a three-months recess period.

The speaker of the state assembly, Mario Nyibang John told Sudan Tribune the long awaited break came after the lawmakers successfully passed the bills required this year.

“Western Bahr el Ghazal state legislative assembly on 11 August officially declared the recess to the honorable members from 11 August 2015 to 12 November 2015, after successful sessions which the members have been deliberating on them,” said Nyibang.

The assembly, he said, managed to pass 13 bills, public bill and private bills which are now before the governor for ascension such that those bills become state laws.

After this tieless work for over three months, it was of the MPs to go for recess, he said.

“Going for recess does not mean that honorable members should go and travel to Kampala to Nairobi elsewhere to go and rest, no this recess mean you should go back to your consistency informating the public about the work of the parliament and the work of the government and particularly the current situation of the country,” stressed Nyibang.

The nation, he said, is now facing senseless war and it is the role of lawmakers to go and inform their communities about steps being taken by the government to bring peace.

“It’s the role of honorable members to sensitise their communities to tell them, this war is senseless, this war will never bring about development, we better advocate for peace, we inform our people not to join rebellion, we inform our people to coexistence with other communities such that this instability brings development to our state,” he emphasised.

(ST).