Category: Justice

U.S. sanctions Futuyo, Nando over conflict-related sexual violence

The United States government on Tuesday sanctioned the Governor of Western Equatoria State and a South Sudan People’s Defense Force general in connection with atrocities committed during the South Sudan conflict as well as the violence in Tombura County. Continue reading U.S. sanctions Futuyo, Nando over conflict-related sexual violence

Chief Justice Reec to speed up trials of unsentenced inmates

The Chief Justice of South Sudan Judiciary has promised to increase the number of  mobile court judges to expedite the trial of inmates at Juba Central Prison.

Justice Chan Reec Madut said this when he inspected the facility that is reported to have 1800 inmates pending trials for alleged crimes related to theft, killing and defilement.

The Chief Justice was accompanied by the Inspector General of the National Police, Majak Akech and the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Ruben Madol.

The visit this morning aimed at ascertaining the number of inmates awaiting trial and address the backlog of untried cases.

Address the inmates, Justice Reec says since he established four mobile courts at the prison, he never received reports about the back log of cases.

” As the Chief Justice, I did what is called a mobile court, and I established four mobile courts in Juba Central Prison, believing that this will help and speed up the resolution of cases,” he said.

However, the Judiciary boss says, he will increase the number of judges from four to eight to speed up resolution of the pending cases.

“I will speak with the Minister of Justice to provide public prosecutors so that we can expedite the resolution of cases and have the courts adjudicate them,” he added.

Meanwhile, Lul Deng who is on a death row shared his ordeal to Eye Radio.

” I wished that one of the wards would be open so that you could see how the prisoners are crowded in the rooms and the way they sleep,” he said, adding that: ” Here[prison] we eat one meal a day, which is beans, and this causes malnutrition and diseases.”

Juba Central prison today parade 2767 inmates including 42 lunatics.

 

Natural resource activists call for protection of locals in oil-field areas

As Juba is set to host oil and energy conference Thursday, a coalition of civil society organizations is calling on the government and key players in the oil sector to protect communities in the oil-producing areas.

The Civil Society Coalition on Natural Resources also appealed to the companies to respect South Sudan laws and exercise their corporate social responsibilities to pay back to the communities

This year’s theme: “Engine of East African Growth” aims to position South Sudan as the link of petroleum exploration and production, innovation, and energy cooperation for the East and Central Africa regions.

The conference is expected to draw investors to explore and engage in what the government referred to as upstream, midstream, mining, power generation and distribution, services, and infrastructure sectors.

Charles Judo, the Chairperson of the Civil Society Coalition on Natural Resources suggested that: “There is a need to protect the South Sudanese communities in the oil-producing areas,

The call also comes a week after a baby was born with its intestines outside and other deformities and died days later after it was referred to Juba from Ruweng Administrative for medical care.

Several of these incidents were reported from different oil-producing areas of children born with deformities.

“The second one is to initiate corporate social responsibility as a payback to those communities as well  ” to respect the laws of South Sudan by all oil stakeholders, that is our call,” Judo said.

Lastly, Judo suggested that:  “there is a need to invest oil revenue in economic infrastructure development and that is part of what we have been calling for.”

South Sudan is endowed with verse natural resources, most are untapped.

The conference is viewed as an opportunity for investors to build industries that are suitable for South Sudan.

 

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