President Salva Kiir on Wednesday signed four bills into law after they were passed by the national parliament.
According to a press statement by his office, Kiir signed the four bills into law as required by the transitional constitution.
The assented bills are the Constitution Making Process Act 2022, the Transitional Constitution of the Republic of South Sudan 2011 (Amendment) No.11 Act, 2022, the National Police Service, (Amendment) Act 2022, and the National Wildlife Service, (Amendment) Act 2022.
Speaking to the media, Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba said the laws are part of the implementation process of the peace agreement.
She added that other new acts have been submitted to the President and will be assented in the course of this week.
Nunu reportedly said the Parliament has also submitted before the President five new Bills on security, Anti- Corruption, Referendum, Public Finance, and Accountability respectively.
The Speaker also said that Parliament has rectified five Conventions, and International Treaties on economic and political act.
They Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the rights of women in Africa, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights as well as International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ICCPR.
Others include the Paris Agreement and the International Covenant on the rights of persons with disabilities, 2006.