14 people killed in Akobo during S. Sudan Speaker visit to Jonglei
By Thon Philip Aleu
June 8, 2009 (BOR) – A day before South Sudan Speaker James Wani Igga visited Jonglei capital Bor on June 4, 14 people died and 7 others wounded in Akobo County’s cattle rustling, official says.
Timothy Taban Jouch, the State Information and communication minister, told reporters on Monday here in Bor that Murle raiders killed 5 people in Ogal, about 8 miles (12KM) east Akobo town on June 3, 2009. 8 assailants (Murle) also perished when confronted. 7 men, Akobo citizens were wounded, Minister Jouch said. Eight AK47 riffles were allegedly captured from Murle, Jouch said.
Cattle rustling, a common practice between communities in Jonglei surged in 2009 setting a recorded hundreds of deaths in one incident about two-and-half months ago when Lou Nuer retaliated on Murle.
Speaker of South Sudan Legislative Assembly Hon. James Wani Igga denounced the situation in south largest-populous state and urged the tribes to work toward peaceful coexistence.
Igga, who is heading the elections committee of his party, on his first trip to Jonglei in two years, campaigned for SPLM and helped to organize south ruling party elections committee.
For SPLM to win, he said, many people must be there to vote and thus, killings should cease. Igga joked that with recent tribal conflicts; the population of Jonglei State is not longer the highest or as in census figures in South Sudan.
Akobo, an eastern County from State capital Bor, neighbors Nyirol, is a Lou Nuer County that has called for peaceful resolutions of differences few weeks ago after months of fierce contest over cattle as well as child abduction.
As part of efforts to halt or minimize tribal conflicts, United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) deployed a battalion of army in Pibor and Akobo in trying to ease tension there but in vain. Hundreds of people are displaced to Walgak and Kaikuiny, central Lou Nuer following Akobo verses Murle clashes and 31 huts burnt to ashes.
The latest tribal clashes were on May 18 when 27 people died in Uror County between Murle and residents there. However, the Akobo cattle contest is one of many feuds in recent weeks. On May 30, two children were abducted in Wuncuei, a 4 miles village north of Bor Town and their father critically wounded. He is being nursed in Bor Civil Hospital.
Minister Jouch told reporters that the State government is working on peaceful settlement of tribal differences as achieved in May, 2009’s five Counties peace conference.
In a related development, local communities in Nassir – Upper Nile State, have blocked food relief to Akobo protesting their divergence. As such, “Akobo is desperately hunger,” State Minister Jouch revealed.
Jouch, however, acknowledged that authorities in Malakal are working hard to convince the angry Nassir residents to allow food items to starving Akobo – to avoid to two wars; hunger and cattle raiding. Nassir is reportedly angered by raiders – believed to have originated from Jonglei State last month killing up to 46 people.
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makungu1
14 people killed in Akobo during S. Sudan Speaker visit to Jonglei
I can blame S/sudan Government including speaker of south sudan (james wani) because there was a deal saying that there will be disarmament with no pacifict date.
Mr Famous Big_Logic_Boy
14 people killed in Akobo during S. Sudan Speaker visit to Jonglei
You idiot leave Equatorians alone why are connecting Wani Igga to your madnes, why don’t you think back if the killing in your states comes during Wani’s visit to your cholera villages. Be speciific and wise enough !
Yes prove it but still you want to deny this crazy culture of yours, dinkas your realy out of your mind because you show all your barbaric characters but you struggling to block with blind eyes and deaf ears, how could you turn deaf and blind eyes to all of those fake culture of the entire dinkas, am realy sorry that Wani Igga was telling the truth just like jokes, your population is the last in South, if everyday 10, 40, 60 and 100 dies then what do you expect from your census result? what i suspect from Wani speech was a political trick of convinencing idiots and a trick of dealing with lions, because if he intention to promise his words, i hope that there will be a bad mood of junglese toward his visite. He gave a real clue but mad people like yourselves will never realise the truth in opposite way. This reporter Thon seem to be a liar because since last week up to date such kind of shocking reports could have been reported, don’t mislead the media by crap information otherwise leave them alone to deal with their fake culture.
Cattle rustling is not the only common practice between communities in Jungle state, there are some common activities like killing, stealing and rapping, this are some of the common thing in the culture of jungle people. During the war the coward tribe of dinkas/junglese ran to Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, now w’re approcahing development then it is your time to kill yourselves because of food and money rather than been killed by arabs during the liberation. This madnes of you dinkas must be stopped otherwise follow your masters in north or you will all get killed by murle and nuer because of your madness and crazness. Do something positive not stupid things. Ministers like ordinary, what exactly do you want to achieve in this region, people who are suppose to look after the development are turning the million of $$ into their personal pocket while local ones are wondering for stealing cattle. My ears are tired of hearing your crazy things of killing, I want to hear good news not mad practces.
BIG SHAME ON THE WHOLE COMMUNITY OF DINKAS ONLY NUER AND MURLE WILL GET YOUR MIND TO NORMAL LIFE.
Logic is the chairman and founder of Equatorian Resistant Movement (ERM) after achieving its objectives and goals it will reverse to Sudanese Revolution Movement for Democratic (SRMD)
ayuairech
14 people killed in Akobo during S. Sudan Speaker visit to Jonglei
Hundreds of people have died and more wounded as aresult of tribal clash between these three communities of jonglei state. my blame goes directly to the government of south sudan and the state govenment who have failed to disarm civillians since 2oo5 after comprehensive peace agreement. south sudan government should also be keen to locate the root cause of this eminent deadly attack every day because there might be acatalyst within. simply speed up with general disarment and lets call it apeace time.Also south sudan speaker of the parliament hon james wanni is agood man who is always on the right track, and should not be blame for his visit to jonglei. His visit only concided with this tribal attack unexpectedly.
pills
14 people killed in Akobo during S. Sudan Speaker visit to Jonglei
With such series of killings, I think there is no room to blame SPLM-DC for walking away from the failed, corrupt, and, incompetent tribal SPLM/A system in Juba.
Spla Commando
14 people killed in Akobo during S. Sudan Speaker visit to Jonglei
This vile policy of ethnic cleansing must be stopped, if South Sudan wants World impressions, our young nation in the making is becoming a laughing stock.
CK Charlie
14 people killed in Akobo during S. Sudan Speaker visit to Jonglei
More and more people are yet to die, if the simple minded tribalist media mongers of splmtoday.com do not refrain from discriminating the New Nuer SPLM Chief of Staff! Actually the whole South Sudan can say good bye to CPA & Referundom, if some stupid idiotic splatoday.com camera-men are secretly hating on Nuer Leaders!!
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GoSS Media is discriminating on their New Nuer SPLA Chief of Staff!
South Sudan Nation, Watch Out, SPLAtoday.com media is hating on our new Nuer Chief of Staff.
South Sudan, did you guys know that the media personel working for SPLAtoday is discriminating on Nuer? If you go to this website and watch the News In Pictures of May 16 Celebrations, you will find that whoever is the newsmaker of splatoday.com is hating on General Gathoth Mai. He always don not mention his name below the picture, like all the others in the news photos. Every body’s name has been written & mentioned, but not the new SPLM Chief of Staff. Why not mention his name like all the others? Gathouth has been loyal to SPLA all his life. He even did not defect like he should have in 1991, because he loved SPLA. And now, the SPLA media personnel will not even identify him like every body else. Those splmtoday webmasters are sure hating on him. If senior SPLA figures like Gathoth are being sidelined by media clerks like this, then we are in trouble in S. Sudan. Dr. Lam could be right about his current complaints. If the SPLA media is secretly hating such a good loyal Freedom Fighter, who one time almost gave his life to liberate Juba from the Enemy, then God, the South Sudan need to wake up. Spla.com clerks have better be carefull about discriminating the Nuer Section of SPLA. These guys almost lost their lives in the Struggle for Freedom, and are sharing the oil from their land for the welfare of all South Sudan. And now this! I can even see some silent & secret hate on Dr. Riek Machar from this same media. People like Wani Igga seem to get more media attention than Mr. Riek who was in the front line for 20 years fighting the Jalaaba for all of us. People what is going on in South Sudan? Why hate on Nuer,let me ask SPLAtoday.com? The Nuer land has been feeding the SPLA movement for 50 years, and all they get back in return is hatred from simple media clerks? Is South Sudan riding on the backs of Nuer Soldiers to get to independence, without recognizing and respecting the Nuer SPLA soldier? Our oil share is feeding the whole Sudan right now, and we are being neglected in the National Media like that? What is that? No wonder Dr. Lam is complaining! There are useless tribalist people in SPLA GOSS media. They neglect and scorn on Nuer all the time. Period! And they need to wake up, because we are watching what they are doing to us. And one disrespect to one Nuer is a disrespect to the whole Nuer Community. I am devastated by this media hate. The South is in pure danger, if they think the Nuer is there only to be ridden like a horse to Freedom, and not to be treated with respect. SPLATODAY.COM, I am warning you! Don’t bite the hand that feeds you! If Nuer abundon GOSS, there will be no splatoday website, and you will be Jalaaba slave webmaster for the rest of your life! SPLAtoday.com!!!! mmmhhhhhhh!!!