10 Feb 2015
Good Evening, its 5 o’clock I’m Susan Dokolo
The Headlines
· President Kiir opens peace conference in Lakes State.
· National Election Commission welcomes decision to postpone elections.
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· IDPs organise peace conference in Malakal, Upper Nile State.
At least four people have been killed in separate attacks in Lakes State.
In the first incident, an elderly man was shot dead in a cattle camp in Marial-bek while 3 others were killed in road ambushes along Wulu road.
The attacks occurred on Saturday, the same day President Salva Kiir led a delegation to Rumbek to open up a community-led peace conference.
This is the second time the President is launching a peace initiative to end the cycle of violence that has plagued Rumbek Central, North, South, and Cueibet counties.
The President says the two day conference should be used to find solutions to the violence.
Clip…………………Kiiir 1
“What I wanted to tell you know, I wanted peace and you have to united first as intellectuals and to meet entire community as one body because there is no point to fight. The general of general staff inform now know, that there is incident happened while we are here on wulu road where person killed on the way coming to Rumbek , he was taken to Hospital but unfortunately he passed away. Please stop such act if we continue hiding criminals then late on criminals shall outnumber our population and it would be dangerous to us we the people who hide them”.
The President blamed politicians and local leaders for inciting youth at the grassroots.
President Salva Kiir directed the SPLM Party leadership in the state to refrain from provoking the community.
Clip…………………………. Kiir 2
“Those who came with me from juba before, they are there and they are party to what is killing people here in the community and I wanted to tell them today, starting from Daniel Awet who is the chairperson of the SPLM in the and is the member of Political Bauru ,beginning from him up to lower levels here in Rumbek , whether in National Parliament ,whether Ministers, whether at prison department ,whether in organize forces or in the Army , should be told to do their own affairs and should not interfere with security affairs in the community because people are finishing themselves”.
The Minister of Interior has announced a mass recruitment drive to boost security in Lakes State.
Speaking at the launch of the community-led conference in Rumbek, Aleu Ayieny Aleu said the state will train up to five thousand youth in Rumbek to restore law and order.
Aleu says the same recruitment process will take place in Warrap State.
Clip…………………. Aleu Ayieny Aleu 3
“I am going to train your administrative Police, the one you said and the government also have provided money to enable their training and buy uniforms and five thousand will be train here in Rumbek and other five thousand at Nyandeng, State and this is what we have agreed and their uniforms are on the way with the equipment and they will received salary and these guns shall be disarmed and we will rearmed those youth through those guns”.
Minister Aleu says the National government has provided prosecutors, judges and more security to address the insecurity challenges in Lakes State.
The National Election Commission has welcomed the decision by the executive to postpone elections for two years.
Speaking to Radio Miraya this morning, Prof. Abednego Akok Kauch, chairperson of the Commission said they will now have enough time to organize a free and credible vote.
Clip……………….Akok 4
“Now to me am a bit relief what I was supposed to do within four months is a big work, but now I can apply the electoral process now there is no money and I should admit that was the biggest challenge and I am relief now because that was the headache I can’t do such a huge such a responsibility of that nature without resources so I went in into a lot of conflicts with the ministry of finance so at the moment it’s a very nice time for us to resource money into the election account then we proceed with the duty I welcome the decision”
Meanwhile the leader of the opposition SPLM-DC party, Lam Akol, has criticized the move by the Council of Ministers to extend the mandate of the presidency and all elected positions.
Cabinet on Friday approved the move and resolved to call off the general elections till 2017.
Lam Akol says cancelling the June elections was a right move, but says a decision to extend the mandate of the Presidency is unconstitutional.
Clip……………………Lam Akol 5
“Yes we were calling for the elections to be postponed but not for government to take another unconstitutional step to extend its own life. If they said yes the elections is postponed and they stopped there that is okay. But for them to say they want to extend their own life that is unconstitutional. You know that current parliament is a constituent assembly actually, it has a fixed time and therefore there is nowhere that it has a power to extend its own life.”
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A National peace conference opens in Juba tomorrow.
The two day peace initiative is part of a set of resolutions drawn at a recent Governors forum in Juba, to further peace efforts.
Each of the 64 tribes in the country will send 10 representatives to participate in the conference. It will be chaired by Central Equatoria State Governor, Clement Wani Konga who is also the head of the Governors caucus.
State Information Minister, Samuel Soba says domestic grown peace is sustainable
Clip…………..Samuel Soba 6
“This conference will under a theme peace now for South Sudan tribes to unite against war if you don’t plant peace at grass root if you don’t build peace and plant peace at the hearts of the people then you cannot achieve peace wherever its being discussed the concept of home grown peace is sustainable if you build consensus locally from the people and it comes from the desires and the hearts of the people and they make a decision that this is the way that we want this is the roadmap for peace we want in this country then definitely international community or those who are helping will buy the idea and peace will come”
Jonglei State Governor, Jong Kong Nyuon has called for the dismissal of a case against a group of women who demonstrated against his government last month.
More than 30 women were detained for protesting against the Governor, accusing him of fueling divisions among communities.
Addressing a public rally in front of his office today, Governor Jong Kong Nyuon said he has called for the dismissal of the case for the women who are currently out on bail.
Clip…………..Jong Kong 7
“From today on my side Dogdit if free with her group, but if she comes again protesting against my government, I will not leave here I know that someone is behind here, you go and tell her. But for the military they will take their own investigation against these women who are soldiers”
The Governor once again stressed his government is working for the peaceful co-existence of all communities.
A conference on peace and reconciliation has been concluded at the Protection of civilian site in Malakal, Upper Nile State.
The two day conference was organized by the IDPs themselves to find solutions to problems amongst communities at the site.
Mathew B Chuol is the chairperson of the community’s Peace and Security Council.
Clip…………………………………Mathew (Arabic) 8
The Coordinator for the UN Mission in Upper Nile State, Deborah Schein affirms the importance ofpeaceful coexistence.
Clip …………………………………Schein 9
The UN protection site in Malaal hosts more than 20-thousand IDPs and has in the past witnessed clashes between the different communities.
In sports, it was a busy weekend on the local scene; Samuel Pawon is here with the details.
Roll clip…………………Pawon’s report 10
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“We start with the African Champions league game on Saturday, where South Sudan champs, Melekia FC suffered a 2-nil loss to Kano pillars of Nigeria. Malaia will travel to Nigeria for a return game on the 28th of this month. Malakeia Head coach Remzey Sebit says football is a win and lose game.
Clip…..Remzey Sebit
“Football always like that but I have hope that maybe in the second leg I will do something better than this one. We have like five players because of ITC that’s why, no impossible under the sun, but there is some difficulties, I excepted but never, I never surrender”
Okay Omordi, Kano pillars Head coach says it was a fair game.
Clip/ Okay Omordi
“It was a fair match I thank God the opponents are push over they gave their best in as much as we tried our best. You see because getting early goals will help us, this is an away match anything can happen the but a most important thing is the performance of your boys so we have to thank almighty Allah”
In more action, Gazala FC of Wau also suffered defeat at the hands of Petro Jet FC of Cairo. The preliminary game for the African Confederation Cup competitions on Friday ended in a 1-nil win to the Egyptian side. Rofino Thomas Gazala FC Head coach says, the players performed well, but were just unlucky.
“Honestly, this boys have did the best they have, but hopefully our presence with them, will make them to do the best in the second league by the will of God, we didn’t face any difficulties only today we are not lucky God did not agree, always football is win and lose, we hope next two weeks we will do our best in the second match”
Gazala FC travels to Cairo Egypt on the 27th of this month for a return leg. I am Samuel Pawon for Radio Miraya news.
To end the news, here are the headlines once again.
· President Kiir opens peace conference in Lakes State.
· National Election Commission welcomes decision to postpone elections.
AND
· IDPs organise peace conference in Malakal, Upper Nile State.
End of Radio Miraya news I am Susan Dokolo
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