Parents are producing like flies, then abandoning children on the streets

GOVERNOR KUOL MANYANG JUUK

The hunt is officially on for black market dealers, corrupt tax collectors, and irresponsible parents, leaving children on the streets, after Governor Kuol Manyang Juuk ordered they be arrested. The children will be apprehended and the parents required to go claim them.
“There are children staying in the markets that steal and break shops,” said Kuol. “I asked the law enforcing agents and lawmakers to bring the parents of these children to face the law for violating rights of children to parental care.”
The governor last week passed out 700 police recruits in Bor, but immediately said he was disappointed at parents who produced like insects.
“Can you produce a child and let it go to the streets like flies’ offspring?” asked Manyang.
The public in Bor received the governor’s statement with applause.
The Governor’s comment comes at a time when streets of Bor, like other south Sudan towns, is filled with children, some thought to be homeless or street children.
Businesses accuse the children of looting items during the day and break shops at nights.
New Times spoke to some street children, and some said they couldn’t stay home in the villages because of insecurity.
“I came to the town with my mother after my father was killed by raiders but life became difficult for me,” said a teenager. “If there is peace in my village, my mother can farm and we shall have something to eat.”
Most kids in Bor town streets are thought as orphans but several research findings by government and local organization have shown otherwise. Many of the children prefer market to homes because they can get food easily, one boy told the New Times in Bor main market, Maror.
Efforts by Jonglei state government to quell the increasing ‘street children’ menace has been off and on without success.
This is not the first time Jonglei state governor Kuol Manyang gave an order but implementation has been the main weakness. Police services in Jonglei state is symptomatically weak that periodic cattle rustling and child abduction are done with impunity. Apart from poor roads and lack of cars, police officers don’t have guns and the capacity to face heavily armed civilians who engage in feuding over cattle and other limited resources in the state, according to officials.

Chol Chuol Arop is new Upper Nile Speaker

Chol Arop is new Upper Nile State Assembly Speaker after a vote late last month.
Arop has served as a minister and commissioner.
The new Speaker assured the House that his office is not a promotion but he will bring success to the state.
He vowed to join hands with the state governor to work for the development of Upper Nile, to unite the people and to fight corruption.
Chol Chuol Arop was voted to the position of state legislative speaker June 24.
The state has been under an acting Speaker.
Chuol said he will make efforts to make government and assembly members to work together.
He added that he will not hesitate or fear to release any order against any kind of corruption or bad cooperation against the state property.

MPs point fingers after cattle and children rustled in Pibor

Francis Lokurnyang, Member of Parliament representing Pibor County, said he was about to list names of people in both the Government of Southern Sudan and Jonglei state government he accuses of fueling tribal conflict among the communities of the state.
“There are people in our government who are working to see that other tribes decline,” said the MP.
The MP said the Nuer youths who launched an attack on Pibor in June are still at large.
The MP said that the team that attacked Pibor looted cattle and abducted children. The MP said it remains the responsibility of the People of Jonglei state to stop the cattle raiding.
Instead, cattle raiding has become part of the activities of the youth.
The MP said neither the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) nor Jonglei state government took major steps to end rustling.
But Twic East MP Deng Dau Deng said that cattle rustling has no connection with the government.
Dau said no government official was involved in fuelling the rustling.
He, however, agreed that government needs tougher measures against rustling.
“GOSS needs to put a mechanism in place to solve the crisis in peaceful manner,” said Deng.
Police Between Tribes
Lokurnyang said the Government should deploy police between ethnic groups in Jonglei, as a permanent solution to the cattle raids.
The MP also said the penalties on cattle rustlers must be so high if they are to deter rustlers.