E. Equatoria youth conference ends in controversy
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June 22, 2013 (TORIT) - The commissioner of Torit county commissioner,
German Charles Ojok, has refuted allegations levied against him by
some delegates at a youth peace conference of an alleged attempt to
interfere in a vote for youth leaders.
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The meeting ended in controversy and a boycott over the formation of
its executive body, with some members accusing Ojok of trying to
influence delegates to vote for a member from greater Kapoeta as head
of the state’s youth union.
Ojok said he was only entrusted by the organisers of the youth
conference to appoint five youth members to represent Torit county at
the recently ended youth peace conference.
It was then, he added, that he chose delegates from five of Torit’s
eight payams [districts].
The county commissioner further called on the individual youth
delegates, especially those from the greater Torit, like Magwi county
and Imehejek Corridor of lopa/lafon, who boycotted the youth union
executive body formation, to apologise in writing.
Most of the youth delegates who attended the youth peace conference
are criticising the state government politicians for interfering in
youth affairs and attempting to influence the entire youth to nominate
a youth leaders to come from greater Kapoeta, rather than greater
Torit.
The state deputy speaker of the assembly Paul Napwon distanced himself
from the youth affairs controversy, saying that individual delegates
to the conference are instead being influenced by citizens in the
diaspora who had formed a separate coalition.
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