Thieves broke into house of SPLM youth league chairperson in Wau
June 24, 2015 (WAU) – Armed robbers have attacked the house of the chairperson of the youth league in the ruling SPLM party’s office in Western Bahr el Ghazal state, getting away with thousands of money.
SPLM youth league chairperson Abdaraman Dayia Abdaraman told Sudan Tribune that the incident took place at 1Am. He said the armed robbers took away 3,200 South Sudanese pounds (SSP).
“I and my family [members] were sleeping and it happened that somebody started knocking [on] my door asking me to open the door. I asked who are you? He said just open the door while another one was breaking my window,” narrated Dayia.
He said when he told them he could not open the door one of them pointed a pistol at him, saying he would shoot him if he didn’t want to open to door. The victim was forced to open the door for the thieves.
“We opened the door and they came in four of them [and] started ordering me to sit down on the floor. When I set down, they began asking me where [is] the money? I told my wife to open the bag and they just went in and opened the bag and took 3,200 SSP which was in the bag,” he said.
The thieves, he added, further went on searching his room and later got watch which was also taken. They also went into the house of his close neighbour but they did not get anything,” he said. Dayia said however the night patrollers intervened later on but found that thieves had already left.
Similar incidents also occurred in Jebel Khier residential area where thieves attacked a house of a businessman wounding him after they fired bullets on him. Last Saturday, unknown gunmen shot dead a Somalia businessman in Jaw market after he was attacked in his house and asked to pay some cash.
Since the beginning of June this year, rampant nigh attack by robbers and killing has remained a security threat in the state capital, Wau town.
Recently, Western Bahr el Ghazal state governor Rizik Zackaria Hassan ordered nigh patrolling security personnel to shoot and kill criminals’ found attacking civilians and breaking shops at night.
Governor Rizik issued the order in suspicions that the security personnel themselves were also involved in the robbers at night, saying he needed evidence that the thieves were different from them by killing thieves in order to identify them.
“We need evidence; you have to kill the thief, let us find a thief down. You have to distinguish yourself from thieves because if it is you patrolling the town at night and criminals are still attacking citizens, how will we know who is a thief between you and those attacking people at night,” Rizik made it clear to the night patrollers.
However, the order faced criticisms from citizens and local human rights activists who described it as harsh and brutal idea, saying thieves should not be killed but arrested and charged in court of law.
(ST)