Southern Sudan President sacks trousers’ commissioner
October 10, 2008 (JUBA) — The head of southern Sudanese government has sacked from his post as commissioner f Juba County the police commissioner who had arrested young women and men in town who wear very tight trousers.
The President f Southern Sudan Government Salva Kiir Mayadrit Thursday issued the decree no. 124 relieving Albert Pitia Redantore from his office as Commissioner of Juba County.
Kiir had angrily reacted to the arrest and ordered the immediate release of the detainees. He also had ordered a “serious investigation” into the incident, and specifically into how the local county order had come to be issued.
Numerous young women were picked up by police officers and taken in the back of pickup trucks to a ’Public Order Court’ in the Malakia / Konyo Konyo Market district of Juba.
Local police said that the arrests were authorized by an order dated October 2, signed by Albert Pitia Redantore, the commissioner of Juba County, in which he banned “all bad behaviours, activities and imported illicit cultures of what is known as ’niggers’ in Juba County.”
(ST)