Natioanl Legislative Assembly in Juba - June 2013. [Photo by Junior Ali/Eye Radio]

A debate on a report about secondary school final examinations has been suspended in the National parliament.

The report looks into irregularities raised during the examinations, conducted this year.

It included the signatures of the General Education’s minister, Joseph Ukel and also the undersecretary Deng Deng Hoc Yai.

The members of the committee should be the only signatories to the report.

Member of Parliament, Wani Kundu told Eye Radio the suspension was part of parliamentary rules.

“The norms we have in the parliament is that, when a minister and the staff from the ministry are summoned by a committee, they are supposed to sign on a separate paper because this paper is for the members of the parliament. That was only for the committee. But in the plenary, the names of people who attended the meeting are supposed to be the members of parliament not the staff from the ministry of Education or any ministry. Therefore, we still have a list of the members of parliament that attended the committee meeting attached to the report. So that should there be any queries, then they will be the ones to answer these, and the minister to answer whatever questions brought from the parliament.”

Honorable Kundu said that there is need for the parliament to properly study the report and look at the Nation- Wide secondary School Examinations.