Category: Justice

NRA officer handed 7yr-jail term for financial forms theft

The High Court in Juba today has sentenced a National Revenue Authority officer to 7 years imprisonment for theft of 150 financial forms.

The incident happened in 2021 when the National Revenue Authority accused one of its officers of stealing 150 finances forms.

Mading Mayen Randhal was assigned to send the forms to Renk County of Upper Nile, where they got missing later.

Mayen narrated that due to a lack of transportation, he called Mabior Mayen Lueth to help him transfer the form to the airport.

Mayen accused his partner of the crime Mabior Mayen Lueth’s confiscation of the financial forms.

He says because of the delay of the flight he left the forms in his partners’ vehicle and that is an argument that his lawyer failed to prove.

However, the judge found him guilty of mistrust under section 351 of the South Sudan penal act 2008 and ordered him to pay 250 million pounds worth of the lost forms.

Judge Garanga Ajak acquitted the second accused telling him that the court send him free not because he is innocent but because the first accused failed to approve his responsibility for the crime

Advocate Kacual Benjamin Makoi, the first accused defense lawyers say he will appeal against the verdict describing it as unfair.

Benjamin says the National Authority is responsible because it fails to provide transport means to his client to transfer the forms.

” Due to lack of mobility,  he called on his cousin who is the second accused  to bring the forms home. They were using his car wheN he runway with the forms and sold them out,

“In this case, releasing the second accused is not a right decision because he is the beneficiary of the loss of the forms  and I am going to appeal against the verdict, he said.

In her response to the court verdict today Mabior Mayen Lueth the second accused defense lawyer says her client had nothing to do with the accused and the case.

“My client had nothing to do with him because his client works as an officer in the army while he is the one working in the Revenue Authority,

“He thought that accusing my client that he left the forms in my client’s car would deny him the charge. My client spent a year in prison and today [Thursday] he was released,” said Egbal John Akon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malual, Mesiriya tribes hold peace conference on cross-border crimes

The Dinka Malual of Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Arab Misseriya of Sudan are holding a peace conference on cross-border crimes that resulted in the killing of at least one hundred people in the past two years.

The five-day dialogue which began yesterday aims to address the seasonal conflict over grazing land and cross-border crimes including cattle raiding between the two communities.

According to Northern Bahr el Ghazal state Information Minister, cross-border insecurity has resulted in the killing of 75 Dinka Malual natives and 25 Arab Mesiriyas in the past two years.

William Anyuan told Eye Radio earlier today that the conference will decide to either compensate the victims or bring their perpetrators to book.

“They want to see whether the criminals will be brought to the book or they will do the usual blood compensation of the people who were killed,” he said.

Meanwhile, the regional peace coordinator at the South Sudan Peace Commission described the conference that is being attended by government officials from South Sudan and Sudan as a breakthrough.

“I believe this is a breakthrough from our chiefs and the joint-border peace committee,” because he said “there have been a lot of resolutions set all these years, but the two governments have never come together.

Mr. William Kolong assured the citizens that the resolutions of the conference will be implemented by both governments and the Chiefs.

“There will be resolutions that the chiefs and joint border peace committee have to implement,” he added.

For his part, Bakar Abdeljelil Bakar, the head of a Sudanese delegation expressed optimism his government will act on the expected outcome of the peace conference.

“The resolutions that we will come up with will be approved and sent to the state level to be a law so, that we can arrest the criminals and to hold everyone accountable,” he said.

The peace conference is funded by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and other international Agencies,

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