By: Ollus Ndomu
President Salva Kiir has postponed the swearing in of new lawmakers to Monday, next week.
According local media, the 650 members of the Transitional National Assembly and the Council of States were scheduled to oath today, July 30, but the plan changed in national interest.
The President said the ceremony was canceled because it coincided with Martyrs’ Day, the day when South Sudan’s founding father John Garang died.
Garang died 16 years ago in a helicopter crash.
South Sudanese also use this day to celebrate other people that died during the liberation struggle.
