{"id":10573,"date":"2022-11-14T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=10573"},"modified":"2022-11-13T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T18:46:05","slug":"armed-herders-slain-five-in-lokiliri-payam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/14\/armed-herders-slain-five-in-lokiliri-payam\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed herders slain five in Lokiliri payam<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adia Jildo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five people have been murdered and 6 others injured by alleged cattle herders in a village of Lokiliri Payam of Juba County, Central Equatoria State on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Central Equatoria State ministry of information and communication in a press statement issued on Saturday condemned the incident saying that it\u2019s uncalled for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe governor (Central Equatoria State) and his entire government is deeply shocked and saddened by the brutal murder of 5 innocent unarmed civilians and injury of 6 others at Ngerjebe Boma,\u201d the letter read in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state government stated that the presence of the herders is illegal in the state as they are also causing insecurities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe additional grave atrocities committed by the obviously ruthless herders whose illegal presence in Central Equatoria state is terrific and ugly causing horror and panic among the agrarian communities is undermining peace and security not only of the state but of the nation at large\u201d continued the letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central Equatoria government urged the herders to immediately evacuate within an ultimatum of 72 hours citing their presence as a danger to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It added that a committee has been set to find the perpetrators of the act to be brought to book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe organs of the state (security) are directed to immediately track the perpetrators for the apprehension to face the law\u201d it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile Edmund Yakani, the executive director of Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) condemned the incident saying it\u2019s unfortunate and called for justice to prevail over the barbaric act of the suspected armed herders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis incident is inhuman and the perpetrators should be held accountable\u201d he said. \u201cCommunity Empowerment for Progress Organization condemns the incident of inhuman and unlawful act that leads to the killing of five civilians,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yakani said the act of armed individuals or groups killing civilians\u2019 population innocently across the country is totally undermining the citizens\u2019 interest for peace, security and stability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe country weekly is losing lives of innocent civilians to unlawful act of armed cattle herders through killing innocent civilians, or waging cattle raiding and revenge attacks. These incidences are strongly pushing the population to lose trust and confidence on their leaders tasked to deliver peace and security for them,\u201d he echoed.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He called on the cattle herders to respect the rule of law and abolish the killing of civilians during their migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yakani said the act of innocent shedding of blood of the civil population is a trigger to inter-communal clashes and violence hence leading to crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He called on the political leadership of Central Equatoria and Jonglei States to immediately under joint action to mitigate this negative development of killing of civilians before it turns into a deadly communal violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CEPO finally urged the leadership of Council of States to continue playing their positive role in responding to state-level deadly violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is important that government institutions take proactive role in prevention of deadly inter-communal violence across the country,\u201d he added.      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adia Jildo Five people have been murdered and 6 others injured by alleged cattle herders in a village of Lokiliri Payam of Juba County, Central Equatoria State on Friday. The Central Equatoria State ministry of information and communication in a press statement issued on Saturday condemned the incident saying[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}