{"id":11603,"date":"2023-01-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2023-01-16T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:36:06","slug":"jonglei-dismisses-child-auction-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/17\/jonglei-dismisses-child-auction-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Jonglei dismisses child auction rumors<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Mary Poni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of Jonglei State has disputed rumours alleging that armed youth who reportedly abducted children and women from greater Pibor are selling them (children) on the streets of Bor town upon their return from Pibor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonglei minister of Information, John Samuel Manyuon said the information is a white lie that is being concocted by elements who are anti peace and progress in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is untrue. We have so far managed to recover about 88 children and this was an effort through negotiation with the youth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have no information about anyone selling a child on the streets. So, we call on those who have witnessed it to share with us such that we would be able to investigate whoever does that,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information minister described the purported act as a slavery which is unacceptable and by law it is impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to do our best to make sure this person is apprehended, the buyer and the seller,\u201d he responded to the rumor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Manyuon said they have handed over about 68 abductees last week adding that \u201ctomorrow (Tuesday) we\u2019re going to also handover other 20 abductees to make a total of 88 both women and children\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The children abducted are between eight and fourteen years of age. He said some of the kids were abducted together with their mothers while some were separated from their parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mary Poni The government of Jonglei State has disputed rumours alleging that armed youth who reportedly abducted children and women from greater Pibor are selling them (children) on the streets of Bor town upon their return from Pibor. Jonglei minister of Information, John Samuel Manyuon said the information is<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/17\/jonglei-dismisses-child-auction-rumors\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Jonglei-State-minister-of-Information-Samuel-Manyuon-Courtesy-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603","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=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11605,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions\/11605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}