By Yang Ater<\/p>\n
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Rumbek Central County Court has ordered a member of state parliament to pay seven cows and expenses of 548, 000 SSP and 200, 000 SSP respectively, for committing adultery.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Luka Agok, a member of parliament, representing Yirol West County (SSOA) in Lakes state Legislative Assembly was found guilty of committing adultery (known as Akor in Dinka customary law).<\/p>\n He was sentenced to two months imprisonment and also pay seven cows as restitution, as per the Dinka customary law.<\/p>\n The judgment decree, obtained by No.1 Citizen Daily Newspaper, outlines details of the case, presided over by Justice, Gano Daniel Nyowella, a second-grade county judge in Rumbek Central County.<\/p>\n According to Justice Gano, under 2008 Act, Article 266 of the Penal Code,<\/p>\n As a result, he has been instructed to provide seven heads of cattle, in accordance with the Wanh-Alel of Dinka Bhar El Gazal customary law, to the husband of the woman involved, who is the first accused.<\/p>\n In addition to the cattle payment, the court has imposed a fine of 200,000 SSP on Mr. Luka Agok.<\/p>\n Failure to pay this fine would result in a two-month prison sentence. He is also required to cover the expenses of the complainant.<\/p>\n The first accused, the woman involved, has been sentenced to a fine of 100,000 SSP or one month of imprisonment.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the woman has been sentenced to a fine of 100,000 SSP or\u00a0 one month imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Yang Ater Rumbek Central County Court has ordered a member of state parliament to pay seven cows and expenses of 548, 000 SSP and 200, 000 SSP respectively, for committing adultery. Mr. Luka Agok, a member of parliament, representing Yirol West County (SSOA) in Lakes state Legislative Assembly[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakes-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Courtesy-Photo-6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208","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=23208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23211,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions\/23211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}