Hon. Nathaniel Oyet, the First Deputy Speaker of the parliament - Courtesy

The First Deputy Speaker of parliament said the National Transitional Committee, which oversees the peace implementation, should be held accountable for the slow implementation of the peace provision.

“The National Transitional Committee, has been there since the beginning without progress,” he said during Tuesday’s parliamentary session at Freedom Hall.

He further questioned why the executive organ of the government “pleases and prides in an institution that cannot deliver.”

“They take resources from the government and at the end of the day, they have nothing to show. We want something to be done about NTC. If the problem is the institution, then it has to be restructured.”

“If the problem is the people who are working in this institution, then they should be reshuffled. They cannot be left to fail the nation and especially on particular important matters of the peace agreement.”

Last month, the peace monitors – R-JMEC said the peace deal faces several challenges including the lack of trust and confidence among the parties.

‘Slow-moving peace’

Lawmaker Oyet further expressed doubts about the conduct of the general elections due to the slow pace of peace implementation.

The 2018 peace deal dictates the conduct of a general election at the end of the transitional period in December next year.

But Oyet Nathaniel said the peace parties have squandered several additional times meant to accomplish the pending pre-transitional tasks.

“We are moving at a very slow pace. This is not the designed speed of the implementation,” he said.

“We have squandered three years of the transitional period after squandering eight months, after squandering six months, after squandering one hundred days.”

Nathaniel, a senior SPLM-IO official, said the implementation matrix is not moving in the manner it was designed while time is running out.

“The agreement continues to move very slowly, and we even doubt the intention the election will ever take place in this country, because an election is not an event, the election is a process. You must begin somewhere and end with elections”.