Six Chiefs Arrested In Yei County Honorable Members of Parliament (MPs) for Greater Yei County in the National Legislative Assembly on Wednesday got concerned after hearing that six of their chiefs and a former politician were arrested and held by a security agency in unknown place.
19 April 2013 By Juma John Stephen JUBA, 19th April 2013 (Gurtong) – The Commissioner of Yei County Juma David Augustine confirmed the arrest of the chiefs, saying they have been brought to Juba. He could not however divulge more. A delegation of MPs from Greater Yei County in effect met the Chairperson for Security and Public Order in National Legislative Assembly Aleu Ayieny Aleu to understand the fate of the chiefs and how they are doing. The head of the delegation, Hon. Paul Youni Bonju said the reason for the arrest should be made public for them to understand. “We have six chiefs (one politician) from Yei County and we do not know where they are kept. We as Members of Parliament form Greater Yei are concern,” Bonju said. “What have they done? The most important thing is to know where they are kept. If they have been doing something against the country that is what we need to know. We voted for an independent nation,” he added. Hon. Bidali Moses, another MP from the same county said they are very concerned about the disappearance of their chiefs. “We have being in a meeting with our Security Committee headed by Aleu regarding our chiefs who are under detention in an unidentified location. We, their representatives at various levels sat in a meeting with great concern,” Bidali said. “We need to know where they are kept, their well being and the reason for their distension. We are following these events.” Aleu confirmed the meeting with the Greater Yei MPs on Friday. “We had a meeting with the MPs of Greater Yei. They came to us with greater concern over the arrest of their six chiefs and one former member of parliament,” he said. “From the information I gathered from them I was able to contact all the security sectors and able to trace where they are. They are in Juba in safe hands. I would like to appeal to the people of Yei that their chiefs are in good health and measures are being taken to look in to their case,” he added. Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
