Chief Says Special Court 3 In Rumbek’s Is Toothless The chairman of special courts comprising Wulu and Rumbek Counties, paramount chief Marial Chilep Kuror has said that since the formation of special courts in Rumbek, the Capital of Lakes State no cases have been achieved due to lack of law reinforcement agencies. 03 April 2011 Chief Says Special Court 3 In Rumbek’s Is Toothless Police officers in a past assignment, Rumbek [File - Photo]
By Manyang Mayom RUMBEK, 2nd April, 2011 [Gurtong] - The chairman of special courts comprising Wulu and Rumbek Counties, paramount chief Marial Chilep Kuror has said that since the formation of special courts in Rumbek, the Capital of Lakes State no cases have been achieved due to lack of law reinforcement agencies. Rumbek East and Wulu Counties have special court number 3 that were set up by Lakes State Governor last year, to deal with murders cases and other capital crimes committed in Lakes State. “Special courts operated for five months and no single case has been solved because suspects were not brought to the court by the County authorities,” said Chief Chilep. According to his report, Chilep says that 70 people lost their lives between Wulu and Rumbek East Counties last year but these suspects were not arrested by authorities for investigations. The court’s role was to settle previous conflicts between Rumbek East and Wulu Counties but both authorities in both Counties failed to arrest suspected people to face trial. The Chief said that those killed were soldiers and chiefs have no powers to arrest soldiers, it is the authorities that have powers to arrest them forcefully. “We have waited for 5 months now, if there is no progress then the Government should tell us to go back our original courts to solve these social cases,” Chilep added. He says that these special courts are powerless in identifying or arresting suspects even though it’s the role of County authorities to arrest them. As the court Chairman, he wrote a complaint letter calling upon the State Governor to put more pressure upon his Counties Commissioners to reinforce the law. However, Wulu County Commissioner Ezekiel Thion Mangar denied the accusations saying that there were no reported cases that criminals were not arrested. Most wanted suspect Angui-alau Paul Madit Maluac, who is accused to be the mastermind of last year’s clashes between Gony and Thiyic Sections of Dinka Community escaped Rumbek main correctional prison services a week ago. On Thursday night Angui-Alau contacted Gurtong by phone saying that he was around within the bushes of Lakes Sate. According to unnamed relative, Angui-Alau affirmed his presence in Juba. Angui-Alau confessed that he was ready to come back to prison if other suspected people were arrested too by the commissioner of Rumbek East County, David Marial Gumke. Angui-Alau dismissed claims that he was the mastermind of the named clashes as lengthy leaflets found on the streets of Rumbek, believed to be his, indicated his innocence. Posted in: Home -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
