A South Sudanese lawyer has criticized National Council of Ministers for passing President Salva Kiir’s order on the national anthem.
After the council of Ministers last week, government spokesperson Michael Makuei Lueth said President Salva Kiir Mayardit ordered that no national anthem should be sung in his absence with exception of schools and embassies.
But the lawyer who prefers to be anonymous says the ministers are incompetent to pass the order, adding that the national anthem is a symbol of the nation which should not be restricted.
‘I think the council of ministers are not doing enough. I don’t know whether they are being blind folded or not, because they are supposed to advise him [President Kiir] this is a national tool that has to be we the people [South Sudanese] so if he bans it, which means he is banning the citizens from accessing what belongs to them as South Sudanese. So whatever statement or reasons that let him to give him such an order, then he should think twice or else we are losing trust in him. I just want us to have the right people in the right offices. If he says this, and the council of ministers approves it, which means we have wrong people in the right offices. So there should be a change’, the lawyer criticized.
Earlier this month, President Salva Kiir Mayardit apologized to the people for his government failure to deliver services.
I am fully aware that our people are angry because of the difficult living conditions imposed upon them by insecurity and economic hardship. This is further exacerbated by the failure of my government to pay salaries of our civil servants on time. However, little that salary may be; it does make some difference in the livelihood of the families of our civil servants. I want to sincerely apologies to you my people, on my own behalf and on behalf of the government for those failures’, President Kiir apologized.
He made this statement during the independence day while addressing the nation.