Opinion: Articles 54 and 55 of the NSS Act: A Threat to Everyone in South Sudan

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  Deng Bol Aruai.  Top News: Breaking News: President Salva Kiir has dismissed the Commissioner General of National Revenue Authority, Hon. Africana Mande, and appointed Hon. Simon Akuei Deng as his replacement President Kiir Strengthens Ties: Receives Credentials from Six New Ambassadors Top Five (5) Best Performing Ministries In South Sudan SPLA-IO Faction Rejects New Western Bahr el Ghazal Governor Amid Leadership Dispute By Deng Bol Aruai Bol, South Sudan is in a strange and troubling place. It often feels like a theater where rumors, propaganda, and misinformation are produced, consumed, and then sometimes turned into law.  What starts as whispers on the street often becomes policy, leaving citizens questioning how such decisions come to pass. Articles 54 and 55 of the National Security Service (NSS) Act are the latest chapters in this unsettling narrative.  These provisions, which give the NSS sweeping powers to arrest, detain, monitor communications, and conduct searches without
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President Kiir fired four SPLM-IO TNLA members of Parliament and Rubkona County commissioner

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File: President Salva Kiir Mayardit 


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President Kiir on Friday fired the commissioner of Rubkona County and revoked the appointment of Four SPLM-IO members of Parliament in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly 'TNLA.'


The decree was broadcasted on the state owned television known as South Sudan Broadcasting Co-operation 'SSBC.'


President Salva Kiir Mayardit sacked Hon. Dhol Koryom Lingling and immediately replaced him with Hon. James Clement July Dodor as the new commissioner of Rubkona County, both are members of the 'SPLM-IO'. 


President Kiir further appointed Mr. Stephen Gatlier Kuac as a replacement of Gender , Child and Social Welfare Advisor in Unity State. 


President Kiir also revoked the appointment of four SPLM-IO 'TNLA' Members of Parliament representing Unity State.


The sacked Unity State TNLA members of Parliament namely are: Regina Stephen Mading Machut, Anok Biar Wol Nhial, Rebecca Anei Diep and Elizabeth Stephen Kol. 


The president immediately replaced them by appointing, Benjamin Awol Malual, Poth Madit Dut Makuei, Agad Chol Ombong Mayik and Achol Marial Deng as 'lawmakers' representing SPLM-IO in the Council of States. 


President Salva Kiir Mayardit gave no reasons as to why had decided to sack Rubkona County Commissioner and the four SPLM-IO TNLA members of Parliament. 


The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition is abbreviated 'SPLM-IO,' and commonly known as the anti-governmental forces (AGF). 


SPLM-IO, is mainly South Sudanese political party and also a  rebel group that split from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in 2013, due to political tensions between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar over leadership of the SPLM.


Tensions grew between forces loyal to President Kiir and Dr. Riek Machar and South Sudan plunged into the South Sudanese Civil War in the year 15/12/2013. 


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