By Bosco Bush<\/p>\n
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Greater Pibor Administrative Area has dismissed a report by the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) alleging gross human rights violations in the area.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n On December 8th, Ter Manyang Gatwech, Executive Director of the CPA, issued a statement claiming that five local chiefs were arrested on November 15th by order of the Chief Administrator and detained without due process.<\/p>\n \u201cThese local chiefs were held in a police cell for longer than the 24-hour period mandated by the South Sudan Constitution of 2011, as amended,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cthis detention constitutes a gross violation of human rights by the authorities in the Greater Bibor Administrative Area on November 15th, 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n In response, GPAA Minister of Information, Jacob Werchum dismisses the report as unfounded claims meant to sabotage efforts of the Chief Administrator.<\/p>\n \u201cThe government of Greater Pibor would like to categorically refute the baseless claims and unrealistic allegations published by Ter Manyang, accusing GPAA of gross human rights violation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese claims are unfounded and are being manufactured to sabotage efforts made by the Chief Administrator, His Excellency, Gola Boyoi Gola,\u201d stated Jacob Werchum, GPAA minister of Information.<\/p>\n The minister said, there has been no mass arrest of chiefs as alleged, but rather an isolated case involving the murder of a teenage boy in Pibor town by assailants who were later discovered to be residents of one of the villages of Pibor County.<\/p>\n Upon investigations, Werchum said, a local chief whose suspects were hiding in his village was summoned to provide names of the perpetrators of the incident\u2014which he complied with and got released on the same day.<\/p>\n The 2011 Transitional Constitution of South Sudan prohibits arbitrary arrest and detention without charge. By Bosco Bush Greater Pibor Administrative Area has dismissed a report by the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA) alleging gross human rights violations in the area. On December 8th, Ter Manyang Gatwech, Executive Director of the CPA, issued a statement claiming that five local chiefs were arrested on[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31673","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\/12\/Ter-Manyang-Gatwech-Executive-Director-Center-for-Peace-and-Advocacy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31673","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=31673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31674,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31673\/revisions\/31674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt also states that police cannot hold suspects for more than 24 hours without taking them to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"