By Charles K Mark<\/p>\n
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New governor of Unity State, Riek Biem Tap Long, pledged to address lawlessness in the state by establishing a strong legal system.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Governor Biem, drawing on his background in law, expressed his intention to prioritize the establishment of a court to prosecute anyone who violates the law.<\/p>\n He suggested that utilizing the law would be one of his approaches to addressing insecurity in Unity State and its neighboring areas.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my career as a lawyer, if somebody commits a crime, there is a forum where crimes are discussed. It is a justice sector. I was told there is no judge and no high court within the state. This is going to be my priority,\u201d Biem spoke during a reception after being sworn in.<\/p>\n \u201cWhoever commits a crime against individuals, against a child, against a woman, this person must be prosecuted by the law,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n Mr. Biem said he must settle the insecurity in the state in order to allow citizens to embark on development.<\/p>\n He emphasized that development without security cannot be realistic since the same situation can destroy development.<\/p>\n For her part, Anna Samuel Pam, a member of parliament in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly and a women representative for Unity, welcomed the appointment of the new governor.<\/p>\n She urged the new governor to focus on supporting women at the grassroots.<\/p>\n \u201cGive land to everyone, especially women in Unity State, so that they can settle and cultivate food for their children,\u201d Pam appealed.<\/p>\n Governor Riek Biem Tap Long replaced a long-serving governor, Dr. Joseph Nguen Monytuil, who was unexpectedly decreed out of office by the president recently.<\/p>\n Monytuil\u00a0has\u00a0held the governorship of Unity State since June 2020 as part of the 2018 revitalized peace agreement.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Charles K Mark New governor of Unity State, Riek Biem Tap Long, pledged to address lawlessness in the state by establishing a strong legal system. Governor Biem, drawing on his background in law, expressed his intention to prioritize the establishment of a court to prosecute anyone who violates[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Riek-Biem-Tap-long-New-Unity-State-Governor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24938","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=24938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24941,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24938\/revisions\/24941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}