(Gurtong)
General News
07/10/2008 12:54:42
Juba Commissioner’s Local Order Affects Girls
By Juma John Stephen
JUBA, October 6 (Gurtong) – The Commissioner of Juba County, Hon Albert
Pitia Redentore, on Thursday issued a County local order, number four
exercising the powers conferred upon him and following section 7 (10) of
the Local Government Act, on social and cultural affairs from his office
to arrest all ''Niggers'' in his County.
"To preserve the cultural values, dignity and achievements of the people
of Southern Sudan, checking out the intrusion of foreign cultures into our
societies for the sake of bringing up good generation, I Albert Pitia
Redentore, Commissioner of Juba County, hereby issue the following Local
Order banning all bad behaviors, activities and imported illicit cultures
of what is now known as ''Niggers'' in Juba County. Defaulters shall be
sentenced to three months in imprisonment," the order read.
"Whoever defies the order for the second time shall be fined 600 SDG and
imprisonment for three months," added the commissioner.
However, when the local orders were applied on Sunday, many girls from
prayers befell victims of circumstance. Nuk Duany an eye witness said many
girls were beaten and harassed, thrown into a truck like animals by the
police along Juba Teaching Hospital near St Joseph church.
The Minister for Gender, Social welfare and Religious Affair, Government
of Southern Sudan, Hon Mary Kiden Kimbo, in a press conference held
shortly condemned, such actions by the police against women and the girl
child. "These actions are in contravention of the Bill of rights and the
Interim Constitution of Southern Sudan (ICSS) said Hon Minister Kiden.
"Eight young girls run to my office seeking for refugee, telling me of
arrests and beating of girls on the road." added Hon Minister Kiden. "We
need these police to immediately stop these actions, we are not in the
sharia law time, where our women were degraded, stripped, and beaten, and
this is a new era!" she pleaded
"No body deserves to be beaten; there is freedom of torture in the Bill of
Rights
“We in the Ministry of Gender, Social welfare and religious Affair would
like to know the definition of a ''Nigger'' and how these girls constitute
to qualify to become ''niggers'',” she demanded
The Human Rights Commissioner, Government of Southern Sudan, Hon Joy Kwaje
and Hon Jenifa Kujang the chairperson for Women’s Union Central Equatorial
State are now heavily linked to the issue of the young innocent girls’
release, who are under police custody, according to sources.
The commissioner had issued a Local Order Three on, the opening and closer
of bars in the County. The order demanded that all bars and alcoholic
drinking places in the town shall be opened at 5:00 pm and closed at 10:00
pm. Failure to do so a polity of three months imprisonment and a fine of
500 SDG shall be imposed, second time defilement of the order would cost
600 SDG and three months imprisonment. However these orders were neither
implemented nor followed up.
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