Manasseh Magok Rundial (born 1950, Koch County- Unity State Bentiu in a Jagei Nuer Section of the western Nuer.
) is a South Sudanese politician and former speaker of
National Legislative Assembly.
Magok is
Nuer. He joined politics in 1982, and won a Bentiu constituency seat in Southern Sudan regional assembly. After 1985 he became governor of
Upper Nile State
Upper Nile is a state in South Sudan. The White Nile flows through the state, giving it its name. The state also shares a similar name with the region of Greater Upper Nile, of which it was part along with the states of Unity and Jonglei. It had ...
.
In 1990s he joined
National Congress Party, but resigned in 2005.
Magok served as speaker from August 2013 to 4 August 2016. During his tenure the assembly ratified the "Compromise Peace Agreement".
References
Speakers of the National Legislative Assembly (South Sudan)
South Sudanese politicians
Sudan People's Liberation Movement politicians
National Congress Party (Sudan) politicians
Living people
1950 births
South Sudanese state governors
Nuer people
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