MPs Seeking To Increase Their Salaries

[Elisabeth Janaina]

MPs Seeking To Increase Their Salaries
Members of Parliament in the two houses are seeking to increase their
salaries and other allowances in the next financial budget by amending
the South Sudan Emolument Act of 2010.
28 August 2017
MPs Seeking To Increase Their Salaries
The parliament during a session on Monday [Photo by Jale Richard]

By Jale Richard

JUBA, 28 August 2017 [Gurtong]-The MPs including members of both the
Transitional National Legislative Assembly and the Council of States
have long been complaining of allowances, and unpaid entitlements.

Speaking during the presentation of the budget in the third stage,
Speaker Anthony Lino Makana assured the MPs that their entitlements
will be considered in the next budget if they amend the emolument act
of 2010.

“After passing the budget, the first agenda will be the amendment of
the Emolument Act,” Speaker Makana said. “It will be tabled
immediately to enable the members of parliament get their emoluments,”
he said.

During the second reading of the budget, several members of parliament
raised concerns over their emoluments, suggesting it should be passed
together with the budget.

However, the Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative
Assembly, Anthony Lion Makana yesterday said that he cannot solely
include the emoluments of the Members of Parliament because the law
requires amendment of the Emolument Act, to be tabled by the Minister
of Cabinet Affairs.

“The issue of your emolument this is your constitutional right and
when the time comes you will get it,” Makana said. “It is not clear by
how much the MPS need to increase their salaries and other
allowances.”

The Speaker said the payment of the emoluments of the MPs has been
overdue from since 2005 because every time the budget comes it is
pushed for next year’s budget.







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