{"id":4203,"date":"2022-03-15T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2022-03-15T20:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:06:11","slug":"bishop-shooting-defense-witnesses-testify-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/15\/bishop-shooting-defense-witnesses-testify-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop shooting: Defense witnesses testify in court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Adia Jildo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two defense witnesses have testified before the court, closing the files for the defense team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court listened to Abraham Makur, a church youth member of Rumbek Diocese and Adhien Bol wife to the second accused Samuel Maker Mabor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adhien, a 23-year-old told the court that they were taken up by the police in the morning on accusation that there was a gun in their house and a phone that belonged to Samuel Maker second accused was used by the fifth accused Sebit Morris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe woke up on the 27th<\/sup> April 2021 in the morning, police came at home. They caught me and my husband and took us in custody,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adhien said they were told by the police officers that a phone from their house was used to call and a gun was in their house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe soldiers entered the house and went to the ceiling and took the gun,\u201d she narrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She however said the night of the incident got her asleep with her husband Samuel Maker and never knew anybody who might have come at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe left the phone at the veranda to charge because we don\u2019t have a socket inside our house,\u201d Adhien cited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham Matur, the first witness testified for the first accused Fr. John Mathiang in defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matur said there was disagreement between youth leader of Rumbek Catholic Diocese Jonah Mariel and Fr. John Mathiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJohn did indeed a wonderful work by opening schools, hospitals. Fr. John Mathiang was continuing with his church work. Our office was open,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, Fr. John returned Jonah Mariel Mabeny as a youth leader after the closure of the youth office before he was in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Jonah Marial Mabeny witness number four from the prosecutor\u2019s side had requested for computer, a vehicle and a huge sum of money which was denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was a lot of demand made by Marial which Fr. John Mathiang said was not available,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham said the letter was replied to stating that there would not be financial support and buying of equipment\u2019s that would belong to the youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI called seventeen people to settle the issue between Marial and Fr. John Mathiang after the failure of the first meeting that had failed too,\u201d Abraham said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Fr. John Mathiang announced the coming of Fr. Christian Carlassare in the church and promised to work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFr. John Mathiang and Christian Carlassare made visits to the churches in the town\u2019s and far away from town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He denied seeing Fr. John Mathiang with all the other accused sitting for a meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defense lawyers closed the defense case to give the court it\u2019s time for a final verdict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final submission from the prosecution and defense documents on the shooting of the bishop will take place on the 25th<\/sup> before the final court verdict will take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consecration of Bishop-elect of Rumbek is bound to happen on the 25th<\/sup> March as announced by the Christian Nunciation of Kenya and South Sudan in Rumbek Diocese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adia Jildo Two defense witnesses have testified before the court, closing the files for the defense team. The court listened to Abraham Makur, a church youth member of Rumbek Diocese and Adhien Bol wife to the second accused Samuel Maker Mabor. Adhien, a 23-year-old told the court that they[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":[79,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203","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=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}