By Manas James<\/p>\n
The Hol and Nyarweng communities in Duk County, Jonglei State have endorsed customary bye-laws on marriage and revenge killing after six days of review in a workshop, ending on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n About 120 attendants that included politicians, chiefs, youth and women leaders, participated in the exercise, supported by Peace Canal, a peacebuilding group operating in Jonglei state.<\/p>\n Speaking to No. 1 Citizen Newspaper<\/strong>, Peter Latjor Chuol, Duk County commissioner, said he came up with the idea because the county was becoming lawless.<\/p>\n “Killing had become the order of the day, especially on petty issues like elopement. So, on May 25, we started to review our customary laws,” he said.<\/p>\n “We came up with three resolutions to tackle marriage-related issues and killing,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n The committee agreed on 20 years old and above, should be considered marriageable age and anyone who violates by marrying an underage shall be jailed for a year.<\/p>\n On adultery, the offender shall be fined seven cows and jailed for a year.<\/p>\n In case of murder, the culprit pays 51 cows as blood compensation and a 3-year jail term for unintentional killing, while for a deliberate killing, the convict shall also be killed as per the Penal Code Act.<\/p>\n However, Mr. Gordon Wuor Abiel, the community\u2019s deputy head, said the workshop was fruitful and that traditional chiefs have been tasked with overseeing the implementation process.<\/p>\n “All six payams of Duk County had representatives in the meeting. We came out with those resolutions on revenge killing and marriage,” he said.<\/p>\n The community tasked the county commissioner and chiefs to handle the issues in traditional courts in respected of all others.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Aruai Majok Deng, the head chief of Duk County, said the bye-laws will help restore law and order and that they are ready to be the custodians.<\/p>\n South Sudan\u2019s legal system is pluralistic, where customary law is applied alongside statutory law.<\/p>\n The customary law is not uniform across the country; it often varies from one community to another.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Manas James The Hol and Nyarweng communities in Duk County, Jonglei State have endorsed customary bye-laws on marriage and revenge killing after six days of review in a workshop, ending on Wednesday. About 120 attendants that included politicians, chiefs, youth and women leaders, participated in the exercise, supported by[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":[116,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jonglei-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436","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=14436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14437,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions\/14437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}