By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n
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In Aweil West county of Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, authorities are holding a woman and her 9-year-old son over the death of a 20-year-old man.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The boy, named Wol Wan Akot, is accused of insulting his late step-brother, who allegedly stole some unnamed items. He later took his own life.<\/p>\n The deceased, Akot Wan Akot, is 20 years old.<\/p>\n Police investigator, Atak Wol Kiir believes the accused woman, Abuk Ngor Ungom and her son have conjured the issue with her son and insulted the stepson.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have opened the case against the woman as she seemed to have helped her 9-year-old boy who was fighting with his step-brother who happened to have fought the 20-year-old boy and insulted him as a thief. And the woman helped the small boy and angered the stepson till he took his life,\u201d said Wol.<\/p>\n He said the court will decide how to settle the case, as the 20-year-old man has already died instantly.<\/p>\n Kiir appealed to the public to avoid preferential treatment of people in families through biased approaches, as this causes a breakdown in societal settings and creates conflicts.<\/p>\n Authorities in the area have reported three cases of suicide due to family disputes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hou Akot Hou In Aweil West county of Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, authorities are holding a woman and her 9-year-old son over the death of a 20-year-old man. The boy, named Wol Wan Akot, is accused of insulting his late step-brother, who allegedly stole some unnamed items.[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20556,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20555\/revisions\/20556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}