Participants at a two-day civil society workshop starting last Thursday in the Eastern Equatoria State capital have reportedly questioned legal statutes that allow for dual citizenship in South Sudan.
Over 50 people participated in a recent workshop aimed at collecting views of civil society as input for the process of drafting the new permanent constitution, Radio Emmanuel in Torit reported.
The participants “rejected dual citizenship which they said destroys patriotism,” the radio station reported. The group requested scrapping any clause on dual citizenship from the constitution.
A member of South Sudan Law Society Farouk Ismail Ukach said that his tema is collecting feedback from people and forwarding it to the Constitutional Review Commission for analysis. He explained that Vice President James Wani Igga recently expressed similar sentiments on dual citizenship.
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