South Sudan's English Daily Newspaper
"We Dare where others fear"
By Benjamin Takpiny
The Executive Director for the Center for Peace and Advocacy (CPA), Ter Manyang Gatwech has called on the transitional unity government to address the random killings taking place in Juba.
“First of all, we shall know the root cause of the killings and harming, this is the result of economic hardship citizens are facing across the country, as an activist I call upon President Salva Kiir Mayardit to address the nation about these random killings in the city,” Manyang told the Dawn on Wednesday.
Manyang noted that the country is moving in a bad direction because citizens have a lot of concerns that should be solved by the political leadership.
“Our leaders are silent about this issue of killings which is a bad sign for the country,” he disclosed.
He asked the transitional unity government to pay salaries of it’s employees on time to avoid desperate situation where some of the government workers are resorting to crime to make ends meet.
Manyang noted that security personnel are not happy due to delays in payment of their salaries.
“Each ministry is supposed to develop contract for each of it’s staff. This helps give hope and aspirations for the government employees,” he said.
Police authorities have confirmed arrest of some of the suspects behind random shooting that caused loss of lives last week.
A member of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, Bol Joseph Agau representing Yirol West County under the opposition National Democratic Movement (NDM) raised the issue of random killings in Tuesday’s parliamentary sitting.
Agau proposed the summoning of the ministers of national security, defense and veterans affairs and interior over the insecurity in Juba.
Agau cited the shootings last week’s shooting incident at Seventh Day roundabout and at a restaurant in Hai Cinema and several other incidents.
“The insecurity in this town let alone the other parts of the country is an anxiety that we all need to know from the committee of security,” Agau said.
“We need to know from the various organs of security what is exactly happening in this country. Why are people killing themselves within the city and no explanation is coming from the security organs? You go and find it is the ministry of defense giving public information when there is police and there is national security, we need to hear from the national security service, we need to hear from the police,” he wondered.
