Former Governor’s Family Demand is release Or Trial The family of South Sudan’s detained former governor of Wau State Elias Waya Nyipuoch are calling on the government of South Sudan to either set their father free or charge and take him to court for trial. 05 August 2016 Former Governor’s Family Demand is release Or Trial Former Wau State Governor, Elias Waya Nyipuoch. [Photo| James Dimo]
By James Deng Dimo Wau- 05, August 2016 [Gurtong] – The family broke the silence after what they described as alarming health deterioration for Waya under detention in Juba. “We need our father to be freed or triad in court to determine which kind of crime he has committed. Our father has been denied access to justice for a month, which is a jungle law,” said Sara Waya. A daughter Waya, Sara said that, “justice delay is a justice denied,” She added, “Everybody is wondering what is now happening on my father’s case, because if government set the laws, these laws should be followed. No government could relief it senior official and then arrest and detain him without trial. We still don’t know now which crime our father committed. Relieving him was a presidential duty but detaining him without charge is a challenge to the South Sudan’s Transitional constitution,” she said. She also told Gurtong last Wednesday that her father was suffering from high blood pressure. Waya was immediately arrested earlier in July this year just two days after president Salva Kiir issued unexpected republican order firing him from office in less than nine months since his appointment as the first governor of Wau state after splitting the 10 states into 28 states. Elias Waya becomes the second top Kiir’s government official to follow the former Western Equatoria State’s governor Joseph Bangasi Bagasoro, who was later released after spending a year under military jail in Juba. Posted in: Home, Governance - See more at: http://gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/19740/Default.aspx#sthash.twpkVyfM.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/CAJb14opsQt1bZHJDgREx2hB4RHJbjC_A%2Ba3NhgHUKKm6fZxrVA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
