Jonglei state government to petition Boma state over abducted children
4 min readBy Mach Samuel Peter, Bor, Jonglei state
June 2, 2016 (SSB) — The governor of Jonglei state Philip Aguer Panyang said he will petition the government of Boma state under Baba Medan Konyi to return all the abducted children in the last few years. Thousands of children have been abducted from Bor in the last Century.
Lou Nuer of Bieh state has petition the Boma state over the abduction of 30 children last month, Ethiopia earlier warned to invade South Sudan Pibor town if the 108 abducted children from Gambella Ethiopia were not re-united with their biological parents immediately.
“Let us talk peace because instability disrupts development, we shall write to Governor Baba Medan of Boma state about our abducted children. Lou Nuer is complaining of 30 abducted children. Ethiopian government is complaining,” Philip Aguer appealed while addressing chiefs at South Sudan Hotel on Saturday.
Up to 56 children previously abducted from the Ethiopian Nuer community by armed men from the ethnic Murle community in South Sudan were recovered and returned to the Ethiopian authorities in Gambella region last month.
The number is out of about 108 children reportedly abducted when 13 villages belonging to the Ethiopian Nuer ethnic group in Gambella region were simultaneously attacked by heavily armed men from South Sudan.
Over 200 Nuer people were also killed in the attack and some 2,000 heads of cattle looted. About 60 of the Murle attackers were also killed during the violent confrontation.
Several raiders and child abductors have been killed in some villages of Jonglei state but nothing has been done about the killing.
The chief administrative area of Greater Pibor Adminstrative area Gen. David Yau Yau handed over 4 children to the government authorities in Jonglei state last year.
The children were abducted on 04th February 2014 in Kolnyang Boma [Kolnyang payam] of Bor County by Murle youth. The children less than 5 years old were identified as Agau Bol Garang, Anyieth Makech Mach, Riak Deng Yol and Ajang Madit Jongkuch.
Youth leaders of Greater Bor responses were to declared to deploy Gelweng forces into Boma state to get back the abducted kids something Greater Bor political leaders of the area have always condemned and threaten to arrest the culprits.
Jonglei state government appeals for conference on child abduction with rivals
In similar development, the governor of Jonglei state Philip Aguer Panyang has called on the United States Agency for International Development USAID to facilitate a conference on child abduction amongst the communities of Nuer, Murle and Dinka of Beih, Boma ans Jonglei State respectively.
Aguer also made an appeal for special conference on affordable and peaceful marriages.
“I appeal to USAID to organize a conference on child abduction between Nuer, Murle and Dinka” He appealed.
The governor also said he will petition the government of Boma state under Baba Medan Konyi to return all the abducted children in the last few years. Thousands of children have been abducted from Bor in the last Century and only four were returned in 2015.
Child abduction has become a serious business in Boma state because impotence couples buy with abundance cattle in exchange for stolen children from Bor.
It makes no different with slave trade something that has been abolished hundreds of years ago.
Nothing has been done about child abduction either by Jonglei state and South Sudan government respectively. Last month, Ethiopia earlier warned to invade South Sudan Pibor town if the 108 abducted children from Gambella Ethiopia were not re-united with their biological parents immediately.
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