SPLM ÐDC MPS IMMUNITY LIFTED DUE TO MURDER QUERIES

The Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly says that it lifted the immunity of four SPLM-DC legislators following a request from a court in Malakal to pave the way for investigations over the killings of a paramount chief and six people in Upper Nile state in May.

Speaker James Wani Igga said that the court asked for the MPs’ immunity to be lifted so that these people, who have to answer certain charges, can be investigated.

He noted that the MPs can not be investigated when they have parliamentary immunity.

However, the SPLM-DC chairman in Malakal, Anthony Edward Nyawello, said that the order came from the GoSS Ministry of Internal Affairs not from the court.

Mr. Nyawello explained that minister Gier Chuang wrote the letter to the Justice Makuei who told the parliament of the need to take away the parliamentary immunity.

He mentioned that whatever Mr. Makuei wrote did not contain any kind of truth in it because no case has been opened against these people in Malakal.