{"id":40813,"date":"2023-07-27T12:26:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act"},"modified":"2023-07-27T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T12:39:58","slug":"governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act","title":{"rendered":"Governance cluster set to amend NilePet act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The Governance Cluster has adjourned to next week the drafting of the National Petroleum and Gas Corporation Amendment 2023 Bill after the Presidential Affairs Ministry did not present a signed copy of the 2019 Act.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s meeting chaired by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, was to discuss the establishment and responsibilities, particularly on who should run the NilePet.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet Minister Dr. Martin Elia Lumoro says the cluster had a challenge in drafting the amendment bill, resulting in its adjournment to next week\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Elia says the scheduled meeting will first revisit the past bills to understand the roles of the relevant institutions before putting them together for a cabinet presentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the National Petroleum and Gas Corporation Act, we had a challenge in drafting the bill 2023 but we wanted to see the approved or accented bill 2019. We wanted to see the establishment and responsibilities of who is responsible for NilePet,\u201d Elia said speaking on state-owned television SSBC on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe faced a challenge that the Ministry of Presidential Affairs was not accompanied by the signed copy of the 2019 Act, and without the technical staff who would guide the cluster on the enactment of the National Petroleum and Gas Corporation Act 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we put it to next week and we are inviting the technical team of the Ministry of Presidential Affairs including the Managing Director of NilePet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill is being amended a year after the Minister of Petroleum said that he was sidelined in the management of the state-owned oil company, NilePet.<\/p>\n<p>Puot Kang Chol said the oil firm was being managed by the Ministry of Presidential Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Kang said the alleged overlapping of duties makes it challenging for him to answer inquiries put forth by the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. The Governance Cluster has adjourned to next week the drafting of the National Petroleum and Gas Corporation Amendment 2023 Bill after the Presidential Affairs Ministry did not present a signed copy of the 2019 Act. Tuesday\u2019s meeting chaired by First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, was to discuss the establishment and responsibilities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-40813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Governance cluster set to amend NilePet act - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Governance Cluster has adjourned to next week the drafting of the National Petroleum and Gas Corporation Amendment 2 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governance cluster set to amend NilePet act\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Governance Cluster has adjourned to next week the drafting of the National Petroleum and Gas Corporation Amendment 2 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-27T12:26:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-27T12:39:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/07\/sm_1690448919.312171.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"703\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Governance cluster set to amend NilePet act\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-27T12:26:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-27T12:39:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/07\/sm_1690448919.312171.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governance-cluster-set-to-amend-nilepet-act\",\"name\":\"Governance cluster set to amend NilePet act - 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