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STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / CONSTITUTION
TRT: 01:56
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 APRIL 2017, JUBA SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shot, meeting room
2. Med shot, handover of constitution proposals
3. Wide shot, meeting room
4. Med shot, journalists
5. Close up, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Paulino Wanawila, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs:
“My role as the ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs is to take the Bill as it has been brought to be domesticated to be part and parcel of our constitutional law and to be adopted by our Transitional Legislative Assembly but what I would like also to emphasize is that the government, the parties to the agreement has gone ahead implementing the agreement and the constitution side by side understanding that in case of contradictions the agreement will prevail.”
7. Close up, journalist asking question
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gichira Kibara, Chairman, Committee for National Constitutional Review:
“We will continue be very hopeful that the stability of this country will be secure and there will be a new constitution eventually there will be peaceful and democratic election before the end of the transitional period because part of the work that the committee is doing is to amend the political parties that in order to facilitate proper registration of all parties and also national election act in order to facilitate peaceful democratic and free election.”
9. Wide shot, Minister and the Chairman shaking hands
The South Sudan National Constitution Amendment Committee on Wednesday (12 Apr) handed over a proposal to the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Paulino Wanawila, to be incorporated into the Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan.
If adopted, the proposals will be incorporated into the Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan that was signed in August 2015.
Addressing Journalists after the meeting, Paulino Wanawila Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs said he will present the bill in the Council of Ministers to pass a resolution and to send it to the Assembly.
SOUNDBITE (English) Paulino Wanawila, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs:
“My role as the ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs is to take the Bill as it has been brought to be domesticated to be part and parcel of our constitutional law and to be adopted by our Transitional Legislative Assembly but what I would like also to emphasize is that the government, the parties to the agreement has gone ahead implementing the agreement and the constitution side by side understanding that in case of contradictions the agreement will prevail.”
The Committee Chairman, Gichira Kibara, stress out that they have finished phase one of the proposals to the constitutional amendment and are immediately commencing the amendment of the laws. He added that “part of the work that the committee is doing is to amend the political parties that in order to facilitate proper registration of all parties.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Gichira Kibara, Chairman, Committee for National Constitutional Review:
“We will continue be very hopeful that the stability of this country will be secure and there will be a new constitution eventually there will be peaceful and democratic election before the end of the transitional period because part of the work that the committee is doing is to amend the political parties that in order to facilitate proper registration of all parties and also national election act in order to facilitate peaceful democratic and free election.”
The constitutional key proposals include the establishment of a collegial form of government with power sharing between the President and the First Vice President, the inclusion of all the political groupings into the governing process, effective power sharing between main groupings with specific ratios in the Council of Ministers and the State Executives, and provision for the permanent constitution making process.
