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National Amendment Constitutional Committee "NCAC" Urged President Kiir To Intervene And Guarantee Their Allowances Are Paid

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The National Constitutional Amendment Committee "NCAC" yesterday on Thursday urged President Kiir to step in and intervene to the delay of their allowances. 


Mr. Ayuel David the acting Chairperson of the "NCAC' committee while speaking to the media said that, since the work of the NCAC was suspended in March their was no proper communications in regards to their "stipends".


According to the NCAC chairperson, he said that the last time they received their stipends was in 2020. 


“The NCAC has consistently followed up on the issue of payment through various government offices including the National Transitional Committee (NTC), the ministers of justice, finance, peacebuilding, presidential and cabinet affairs,” he said. “The first vice president in charge of the economic cluster (James Wani Igga) wrote directing the minister of finance to pay the NCAC dues. The matter of NCAC payment has been raised several times at the RJMEC monthly plenary meetings and resolutions were made for payment,” Ayuel said. 


“In all instances, the government committed itself to make the payment but unfortunately no payment has been made to date.” Ayuel added.


The National Constitutional Amendment Committee chairperson said that, after reviewing the 18 Amendment Bills and the Constitutional Amendment Bills which was also submitted to the Justice Ministry, but unfortunately their work came to an abrupt end without achieving their goals and objectives..


“The NCAC mandate is set to expire in May 2023 without the review of important laws due to the failure by the government to discharge its responsibility of paying the national members their dues. NCAC remains committed to completing its work and urges parties and Stakeholders to impress upon the government the need to prioritize the payment of dues of the national members of NCAC,” he said. “We reiterate our call to the government to expeditiously pay the committee so that review of the outstanding laws can be completed to facilitate implementation of the Roadmap to a peaceful and democratic end of the Transitional Period.” Ayuel said. 

 

The NCAC still has to review some important laws including the Investment Promotion Act 2009, Telecommunication Act 2010, Transport Act 2008, Mining Act 2012, and the National Pension Fund Act, Ayuel said.


“From 2020 to 2022, there was a budget of USD 943, 140 for sitting allowances for members. Then we have the current 2022/23 budget that has not been paid and it is USD 928,200,” he said. “So, when you put this together, the dues that we are talking about is USD 1,871,340. For the last three years, this amount has accumulated.” Ayuel said.

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