The Governor of Yei River state David Lokonga Moses has raised a concern to the National Government over lack of police personnel and lawyers to preserve law and order in his thirteen counties of the state.
Lokonga explained that the relationship between the civilians and the armed forces was deteriorating due to absence of trained personnel whose role is to maintain law and order.
“I need police to be brought here so that they will be the ones to protect the people and their properties and also to maintain law and order in all the thirteen counties of the state so that we don’t have problems with the civil population”
The Governor stressed that the military should be stationed in the border areas to protect the country from external aggression.
“One of the most important functions of our national army is to protect the nation from outside attacks. The internal protection of the civilians and their properties should be handed over to the police”.
On the other hand, Lokonga complained that his state is also lacks lawyers to oversee cases related to human rights abuse in the state.
“Yei has no lawyers and therefore I am calling for lawyers to be brought to Yei so that any person who committed a crime should be dragged to the court so that the people will know that the Government is working”