A member of parliament at the Reconstituted Transitional National Legislative Assembly fell from a Boda Boda while heading work on Monday.
In his address to the Parliament, Malek Kok revealed the sorry incident but never revealed whether the legislator sustained injuries or not.
Mr Kok spoke during a deliberation on the report of a committee on amendment of the Transitional Constitution of South Sudan, 2011, amendment bills number 8 and 9.
The lawmakers had on several sittings complained over their welfare despite receiving allowance recently.
“I rise to bring this to your attention about one of the MPs who fell off early morning when using Boda Boda to come to the house here. This is becoming very disturbing because it is not the first time for the honourable members to use Boda Boda and get an accident,” Kok said.
“Majority of us here are dying silently and I bring this to the attention of the welfare of the honourable members because it is not good for honourable members to use Boda Boda to come and conduct a national issue.”
Manawa Biar, another MP, questioned the status of MPs’ immunity after the police, whom he described as “violent,” delayed him on the road as he road, making him spend 40 minutes from his home behind J1 to Freedom Hall to attend a sitting last Monday.
“They defy the status of my immunity as an honourable to the extent that some they tell me that they don’t even know who are the honourable members,” Biar claimed.
He said an empty stomach is always a devil workshop. He said, “If I don’t have food if my family back home doesn’t have food, no breakfast, lunch, or supper, I won’t be sitting here concentrating on these three books to produce one summary of a question or amendment bill.”
“I’ll be concentrating on where I can get food for my family. So, I am requesting the entire members that any law dealing with amendments to the national constitution not be discussed while our stomachs or families are in pain,” he said receiving rounds of applause from the members.
Biar said they did not want to be responsible for any bad constitution that would affect the country in future.
“I don’t want the 500 members to be held accountable or responsible for producing a very bad document that will affect this nation in future,” he stated.