A member of the civil society organization, Edmund Yakani has called for documentation of presidential decrees and put them in archives.
He says this will make it easy access for the public and future reference to retrieved orders the head of state has issued
Yakani who is the Executive Director of Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) discouraged verbal orders and directives without written documents.
The activist was reacting to the decision of the Presidency to remove the Power that permits the National Security Service to arrest without a warrant of arrest.
The Activist demanded all Presidential orders should be officially written and authenticated by the office of the President so that the information can be retrieved in cases of violations.
“Presidential Directive and Orders need to be written officially and documented in archives for referral if there’s any case of violation in a court of law,” Yakani said.
He claimed that presidential decrees communicated verbally make it difficult to hold the violators accountable before a court of law.
Yakani says they are going to start monitoring the implementation of the President’s directives through their initiative called “Civic Space Watch.”
CEPO expressed readiness to write a monthly report of violations of the Presidential orders and directives after scrapping the powers of National Security to arrest with or without a warrant of arrest.
The activist appeals to the citizens to always report incidences of arrest by the National Security to any of their offices across the ten states and that will be included in the monthly reports.
Spokesperson of Transitional National Assembly, Hon. John Agany says there procedure required to effect the amendment before parliament passed the amended article.
“It upon the Presidency to call for amendment of the NSS Act and give it to the Ministry of Justice, the Minister of Justice will present it to the Parliament and then the amendment will be done by the Assembly,” John Agany
Last week, the government announced that President Kiir Salva and his Deputy Dr. Riak Machar, have resolved to remove the powers of the National Security Services that mandated them to arrest persons without a warrant.
The President has issued a series of Republican orders on the national broadcaster SSBC since the independence of South Sudan.