A member of parliament representing Unity State’s Mayom County in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) has tasked the house to summon the governor of Warrap State to answer questions about the killing of people from Unity State in his jurisdiction.
Stephen Bol Ley, a SPLM-IO legislator, said that on 23 August alone, about ten people were killed in Unity State in three separate incidents.
“On Wednesday 23 August 2023 in a village called Kweryer, one of the payams in Mayom County, an armed group from Warrap State, specifically from Gogrial East County’s Jur Maninger area, came and attacked a village at night and killed two women. One of the women had just delivered two weeks before and now her child is an orphan,” he said. “On the same date, seven traders who went from Unity State to Tonj North County, Warrap State, were all killed in cold blood and the killers later called the family and informed them that we killed these seven men.”
“In the third incident, there was a group of traders who usually take cows from Mayom to the auction market in Wau and this time when he took bulls for sale, a friend invited him to Tonj North County and he was killed there,” Bol added.
He stressed that the three incidents happened on the same day and said he raised the issue of killings last year but no action was taken.
“It is not the first time we discuss these murders and you remember a pregnant woman was killed in the presence of authorities last year and I moved the motion here in the house, it was debated but that motion died,” he lamented. “I do not know how you are going to pay attention to the lives of our people because we represent the people and whenever they are dying, the house is not paying attention.”
“I am here to inform this house and I want to move a motion since this governor is here in Juba he has to be called to answer why people are not protected,” Bol added.
Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba tasked Bol to prepare a motion and table it before parliament so that the Warrap State governor can be summoned.