{"id":12221,"date":"2023-03-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=12221"},"modified":"2023-03-03T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T19:42:15","slug":"12221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/04\/12221\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By William Madouk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The General court-martial on Friday sentenced private Yak Garang Yak to death by firing squad for killing three Syrian nationals and a South Sudanese in Akon village, Gogrial West of Warrap State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President of a general military court martial and presiding Judge Maj-Gen. Majok Micheal Chan, during the seventh session also pronounced the expulsion of Yak from South Sudan People\u2019s Defense Forces files and ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFinal verdict! One, the convicted private Yak Garang Yak is dismissed from SSPDF file and rank with effect from March 3, 2023,\u201d Judge Chan said \u201cTwo, the convicted is sentenced to death by firing squad.\u201d He continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presiding Judge also gave 15 days for the legal defendant team to appeal against the ruling, adding that the filing case would now be sent to the authorized authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yak, who pleaded guilty to the crime was charged by the military Court with first-degree murder for crimes under section 83 of the SSPDF Act, 2009 read together with section 206 of the South Sudan Panel code that cites murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also includes; section 327 of the SSPDF Act, 2009 for causing damage to the company\u2019s car together with section 67 for defying lawful orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unapologetic Yak told the court that, he ordered the deceased to lie down, and later shot them after he was irked by his late boss\u2019s decision not to increase his pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After committing the crime, he attempted to flee the crime scene using the victim\u2019s car but was later arrested by his fellow soldier. He admitted to all the accusations, saying sanely sound-mindedly that he committed the alleged crime to teach his boss a lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PVT Yak also uncovered that he had an agreement with his boss to add SSP 20 thousand to his initial salary of SSP 30,000, however, the sealed deal was not fulfilled by the deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, rights defender, William Johnson Dut who is also defending Yak Garang said the court\u2019s decision is \u2018hurtful\u2019 and a \u2018disgrace\u2019 to the rights of Yak Garang Yak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe still have a chance to appeal against this ruling, so we will appeal with whatever means,\u201d Dut said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have already submitted the request to the court to take Yak for medical examination to see whether he is sane, but if he\u2019s confirmed to be insane then the court will drop the death sentence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reacting to the court ruling, the lawyer representing the family of the victims, Allen Anthony Juma lauded the martial court for being \u2018neutral\u2019 and \u2018fair\u2019 in delivering the final ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe consider the ruling as logic, fair and does justice to the families of the victims and from here we thank all security organs for their efforts from day one up to today,\u201d Juma said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abdurrahman a brother to slain Syrians, appreciated the court and South Sudanese authorities for carrying out justice for his slew brothers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Counselling the foreigners to be sacred saying \u201cthe country has law and government there is nothing called chaos here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agoth Atak, uncle to Deng Malong, a South Sudanese who was killed by a stray bullet said that based on the court order to choose, as the family they have opted for compensation but the court already ruled the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo the family, I would like you to know that I have relayed your message to the court to recompense for the blood of our loss son,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Private Yak who belongs to Tiger Division was contracted to provide security and also work as a driver at a construction firm known as A.F.K \u2013 managed by a Syrian national. The Syrians were building President Salva Kiir\u2019s house in the Akon area of Warrap state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section 206 of the panel code says whoever causes the death of another person commits the offence of murder, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to death or to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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