Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
November 19, 2009 (JUBA) – The state authority of Central Equatoria has resolved to detach from Juba County administration a local Payam administration following the shooting of a Southern Sudan minister in the area.
The minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Dr. Samson Kwaje, was shot on his right shoulder on Sunday as his vehicle in the convoy fell under attack in Wanduruba Payam of Juba County on his way to a neighboring Lainya County.
The ambush left four people dead and five others wounded including the minister.
In an emergency Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday, Central Equatoria state cabinet resolved to temporarily detach Wanduruba Payam from Juba County administration until the issues that led to the incidence are resolved.
Governor Clement Wani Konga to that effect has issued a decree detaching Wanduruba Payam administration and attaching it directly to the office of the Governor.
The decree explained that the cause of the incidence was a result of power wrangling among politicians in the area, particularly over the dispute of whether or not Wanduruba Payam should remain under Juba County or be annexed to Lainya County.
It revealed that Dr. Samson Kwaje, a Pojulu by tribe, had earlier appealed to the National Elections Commission (NEC) to instead attach Wanduruba Payam to Lainya County in the delimitations of the geographical constituencies.
Some politicians in Juba County especially in the local payam administration are against the move by the minister.
The area is mostly inhabited by Pojulu ethnic group who identify themselves with their community in Lainya County.
The state authorities have pledged to find a peaceful and amicable solution to the dispute in the area.
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Pee-Funk
Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
Equatorian people should be blame for this horrible shooting on southern Sudan Minister, because those Equatorian are causes of a every single violent going on in southern Sudan. they are not people, they are an animals. Equatorian are nothing but criminal. I don’t know why we have such people in Sudan.
by: mr. P-Funk
Rambang Deng
Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
The GOSS politicians who are doing things recklessly will come to terms of inseurity they are creating. The shooting and the subsequence wounding of Dr Samson Kwaje is the good example of how frustrated Southern Sudanese are taking the evil acts directly to the evil doers of GOSS.
I hope our people will not kill themselves because of mistakes made by self serving greedy GOSS officials, but instead they could direct their anger against the right targets—The GOSS Corrupt Officials as rightly done by Pajulu people.
Gatjang
Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
There is no dialogue in Equatoria. On other day, the logic dog blamed the shooting on Dinka but now it is clear now the minister was at risk on the Equatorian hands. Those sick Equatorian should learn how to respect leaders, keep them alive and challenge their action.
Gatwech
Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
Dear readers,
Just an intelligent thought!
First, it is regrettable if the Pojulu or others in Wonduruba payam carried out the murder mission against minister Samson Kwaje and his accompanying team. This is the first time a senior government official is targeted with the aim to kill since 2005.
However, here is an intelligent thought for those who will investigate the matter. Could it also be possible that somebody or some people somewhere outside Wonduruba local politics took advantage of the minister’s dispute with the locals to kill the minister so that the first suspects are the locals and the real murderer goes away with the crime?
In USA if you warn somebody that I am going to kill you, another criminal who got the message would take advantage of your warning and murder the person you warned so that you the one that gave out the warning becomes the first suspect. The real murderer goes away with the crime because no body would bother to investigate beyond the person who did the warning.
In the case of Samson Kwaje, there is need to investigate the matter beyond Wonduruba politicians. There could be someone somewhere who took advantage of the situation to murder the minister so that it is seen to be a result of the local dispute. Watch out!
jur_likang_a_ likan'g
Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
Mr Pee-Funk,
You seem to be a mentally retarded person. What you write is nothing other than rubbish. How dare you show your venom agaist Equatorians? leave Equatorian matter to Equatorians. They taught you liberty so that you can now talk. when you were blind politically they showed you the way. When you were naked they dressed you. How can you claim to know more than they do. Please shut up your mouth that is devoid of teeth. Leave the political ball roll.
Gatwech
Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
Brother Zechariah Manyok Biar,
I thought you are an educated person who gets himself acquainted with the US and the nature of its people’s crimes. I pity Gatjang for being uninformed person in the village in Duk county.
But for you Manyok, try it one day to warn some body that you will kill him if the police will not hunt for you in the US. But do you know why the police is sensitive about such a warning? It is because of two reasons: 1/ You may mean it to kill the person. 2/ The police see that you are pre-emptying the killing of the person by any other criminal.
I learnt two cases about this nature in the US. One example was when a person shouted against another fellow in a crowd that he would not live to see the next day. A criminal in the crowd took the matter into his own hands, followed the warned man and killed him voluntarily on behalf of the other man.
During the investigations the witnesses who were watching and listening when the other guy told the victim that he would not live to see the next day told the police about the whole story. The police arrested the guy who made the warning and put him to jail.
It took six months before the real killer was known. He confessed that he killed the man for fun because he was already condemned to death by the other guy.
Manyok, don’t just lock yourself in that missionary self-container apartment. Acquaint yourself with the US and its environment. There are alot of things you will miss and never learn from!
So it is true that somebody would attack Dr. Samson Kwaje knowing that the suspect would be the people he has involved in dispute with over Wonduruba. Somebody would have settled his scores with Dr. Samson by taking advantage of the situation in Wanduruba. Think like an intelligent investigator beyond your nose!
Manyok
Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
Brother Gatwech,
Saying that people are not educated as you think will not make them illiterate. I know you are aware of that. You may give us your credentials, showing us your expertise in grading educated people. I do not regard myself as more educate, anyway. But calling me names will not stop me from asking you to specify your point. You may know more than I do because what you are saying might have happened where you live in the USA.
I do not disagree with the point that police do arrest those who threaten others here because, as you correctly put it, they may mean it to kill the person. But you need to specify the points you made in this paragraph, if you want us to debate it.
“In USA if you warn somebody that I am going to kill you, another criminal who got the message would take advantage of your warning and murder the person you warned so that you the one that gave out the warning becomes the first suspect. The real murderer goes away with the crime because no body would bother to investigate beyond the person who did the warning.”
You mentioned in your second comment that you know two cases that you are talking about. That is great. What I want to know is the state or states that those cases took place, and when? You may also provide me with case numbers so that I can go straight to the cases to be convinced that I am really locked up in ministry container. If the case numbers are difficult to get, then provide me with the name of the court that dealt with those cases. I have a way of tracking those things down here in my mission container.
Zechariah Manyok Biar
Manyok
Shooting of South Sudan minister prompts detachment of local administration
Mr. Tut Gatwech,
You have all along been saying that you lived in Malakal. Now you have been in the USA longer than me! Think about that! Who tells the truth between you and me?
When it comes to what I said about USA system last time, it was your wrong argument in which you insisted that party chairpersons all over the world are the ones who become president that I corrected. Your argument had nothing to do with primaries, friend. You have short memory. Dr. Okuk later on jumped into the issue of primaries after I had told him that he needed to do better because he is a researcher. I never responded to such argument because it was irrelevant to the preceding debate.
A political system is not learned through daily living also, it is learned through research. I would be in Africa and still know how US system works. You sometimes try to fool the readers without knowing that things you cite can easily be verified.
Now you have resorted to illogical argument as usual. There is nothing about going to church in our debate here, we are talking about legal issues based on facts.
Did you prove me wrong by showing me exactly where the cases that you based your early points on happened? If you do not know the court that tried the cases, can you tell me any name of a Sudanese, together with a phone number, who witnessed what you are talking about?
You need to get back to the level of reality if you want people to take you seriously.
Zechariah Manyok Biar