The national assembly on Tuesday adjourned its sitting to discuss a parliamentary report on environmental pollution caused by expired toxic chemicals in Paloch oil fields in Northern Upper Nile state to next week Monday due to technical hitches with the microphone system, a member of parliament has said.
Last month, the parliament tabled a motion about 35 containers containing expired toxic chemicals for drilling allegedly brought in by Dar Petroleum Company posing environmental risks to the population living around the oil fields.
The parliament then sent a delegation to the field for investigations and summoned both oil minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth and governor of Northern Upper Nile State Deng Akoi Gak for questioning.
But the oil minister did not appear in parliament on Tuesday when the report was scheduled to be presented.
“Something happened, the microphone fault that why the sitting has been adjourned to Monday,” said Paul Yoani Bonju, the chairperson of the information committee at the parliament.