Last week, 34 state lawmakers wrote a petition to the Council of States, urging the upper house to pressure Governor Tong Aken to pay their health and recess allowances.
But today, the state parliament believes that the decision by the members was unilateral.
The assembly's information committee chairperson claims that the members did not follow the correct procedures.
“For us at the assembly, we say that the members didn’t use the right procedure to demand their rights,” Hon. Garang Kuol Mabior told Akol Yam FM on Wednesday.
“Whenever you are writing something, you must copy the administration. There is no copy that we received.”
Furthermore, the parliamentarian claimed that the petition included the names of those who are not members of the state legislative assembly.
“What is surprising is that some names have appeared in the petition; those are not members of the assembly. This is not okay.”
Garang admitted that some concerns raised by the members in the petition are valid, but they did not use the right way of doing things.