Chiefs Arrested For Questioning Governor In Aweil State Two local chiefs have been arrested in Aweil for allegedly questioning the Governor over the removal of the former town Mayor and alleged misappropriations of funds in Aweil town municipality. 20 July 2016
By Agoth Abraham *AWEIL, 20 July 2016 [Gurtong]-* Chief Atak Kiir also known as Atak-Makoudhel and Chief Akot Akot also known as Akot-Thoramith were arrested and detained on Saturday. Eyewitnesses say the town municipality chiefs and other intellectuals within the municipality were invited by the Governor for a general briefing. Despite condemnation of what happened during the meeting, the two chiefs were accused by fellow participants to have attacked the Governor’s personality. “We were called for a meeting and during that meeting we heard the briefing from the Governor including how he needs us to support his leadership but these two chiefs accused him of being biased. They attacked him for the removal of the former town Mayor without consultation.” Garang Garang one of the participants told Gurtong. Bol Akot, who was also among those in the meeting said the two were arrested and detained in different places. “Both were arrested but were separated where Akotdit was taken to the military barracks in Wun-yiik and Atak-makoudhel was detained at the national security premise within Aweil town.” The Government spokesperson couldn’t be reached to respond on the matter. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> - See more at: http://gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/19667/Default.aspx#sthash.2W9cJAfe.dpuf -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oraQsmkECcchNvgGTNnP1LeekQ%3D0SOdezuWjZfHnYKEDQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
