Adultery and Theft Cases On Increase: Judge
A judge in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State has announced that adultery, theft and divorce cases are on an increase at the court on a daily basis. 24 April 2013 Tuesday. [Abraham Agoth] By Abraham Agoth AWEIL, 23 April 2013 [Gurtong] - Gabriel Gommah Wol disclosed to the press that adultery, theft and divorce are the most pressing and challenging cases that his court administration has been dealing and asked for calm and love among the partners and couples during the divorce case ruling at Aweil Local Court arena. Gommah challenges the youth to control their temper when it comes to handling homes affairs and love-related issues as he says that he pities the kids who are innocently separated with their parents neither have they been involved in the decision making of separation nor having participated in the fault or route cause of the problem. “Our daily hearing and ruling cases are always concerning adulteries, thefts and requests for divorce from either of the partners or couples. We have been trying our best to ensure that we give fines and punishments the adulterers and thieves with what is applicable and required by law in South Sudan Constitution and our customary laws of Northern Bahr el Ghazal state. We always do our best efforts to reconcile the couples who are baselessly demanding for divorce to forgive each other and continue caring for their kids instead of falling their children’s future,” he said. According to South Sudan customary laws, Gommah adds that male adulterers are forced by law to pay fines of 300 SPP and aruok (compensation in term of cows; that’s equivalent to 7 cows to the husband of a woman that originally paid dowries to the parents of the woman). He also says that the reconciliations process undertaken by his judgment are meant to help reduce increase of street children as they caring and tied responsibilities of both parents may be left to one parent which at other time if not working or not educated may force those children becoming street children simply because of lack of caring and catering for the children’s basic needs. “We hardly allow giving out divorce rulings when the plaintiff or defendant is not listing the accurate reasons resulting to divorce decision because we may be contributing to the negative factors that contribute to harming our children indirectly. We must make sure that the defendant has no legal ground or evidence to deny the allegations imposed on him/her so that we are not later blamed for the outcome. As to why we insist of separation of couples in some cases, we usually tell the hardships children bear to grow and be responsible on their own,” he said. In personal point of view on marital cases, Nyirou Gau Gau says that men of today’s generation lacks responsibility of caring for their kids and family but instead turn to be drunkards and idlers leaving the burdens on women who most case don’t have better education background to be working for good job so that they afford caring for their own children. “Men are nothing nowadays, they cannot be trusted. They prefer drinking alcohol and loitering around in the markets without knowing what the children will eat. I personally had such problems but made up my mind to be living alone and now better than before,” Gau said. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
