Members of Parliament or MPs in the National Legislative Assembly have raised fears that germinating towering buildings in Juba attract disaster like earthquake.
Central Equatoria State’s Yei River County MP Paul Yoane Bonju last week motioned Land, Housing & Physical Planning Minister Catherine Juan Benaiah to answer whether Juba housing is safe for settlement.
Assembly Minority Leader Onyoti Adigo Nyikwec remains in fear of possible looming disaster from notorious dormant volcanic hills of Rejaf in Juba, calling for careful supervision of constructions in the capital city.
Land Minister Catherine Juan Benaiah maintains that the responsibility of supervising physical infrastructural set up rests in the state and local governments until the National Legislature adopts a new policy framework under its scrutiny.
In 2014, a South Sudanese Environmental Economist Dr Spencer Kenyi published a research that Juba City is wrongly placed, citing dangers of Rejaf volcanic hills and floods from the River Nile resulting from confined flow by towering structure along its way and escarpment opposed to previously free meandering.