By Mak Banguot Gok,
Aug 17, 2022 — Jonglei ‘Security apparatuses (notably, the police and army) are contriving and conspiring with the Dinka-Bor community against the sitting State government. This is truly so when you look at the magnitude of violence demonstrations ensued in a couple of days and were confined in Bor town. You couldn’t imagine how the said security apparatuses maintain helplessness when bombs attack the government residents and physically harms the Governor’s security personnel.
None-intervention stand of the police and army when security is being threatened by illegal protests justified the fact. That is categorically contradicting the roles and responsibilities of the defense. There is no reason for having a police and security forces if not to maintain law and order in Jonglei State. The fact that only one county of Dinka-Bor out of the nine Counties poses to disrupt the stability in State capital Bor, it is a work of the security forces to halt those attempts. Failure to protect what is protectable by the security forces brings us to the conclusion that the police and army in Jonglei State are not maintaining law and order.
There are needs for the supreme intervention directives from Juba. Meanwhile, the composition of the security organ itself is bizarre. It showed us predominantly an accurate signal that the security forces deployed and currently stationed in Jonglei State comprises only Dinka-Bor in both the army and police. The commands and the units are composed of only one tribe (Dinka-Bor). This is partly evidence because, without the necessary unified forces in the State, Dinka-Bor still dominates the police and arm force deployed in Jonglei State. The blame goes to the parties that failed to unify the national army for pair redeployment.Â
Therefore, they fail to show neutrality in these politically motivated crimes against the State government. I am sure the police and army are helping Dinka-Bor in prolonging and distorting peaceful coexistence. This is obvious during these staged demonstrations, those tribally inspired demonstrators are allowed by the police and army to physically attack sophisticated government infrastructures (e.g., the Governor’s residence) and throw stones to disperse the Governor’s security contingent. This is a potential sign of attempted harm on the Governor.Â
The security forces (their commanders) defy orders from the Governor whose security of the State falls on his shoulders. Whence Police Commissioner and the army Commander refuse an order from the State Governor and, with their own capacity for security and protection of the physical materials belong to the State, they are unable of stopping the mobs from attacking and destroying government infrastructures, and, yet there is no intervention from the central commands in Juba, what does it means? Â
The worst scenario usually happens whence on several occasions, bends of the demonstrators force their ways in and break into the government building and offices demanding government offices to shut down or else, they have their own lockers to lock the government offices denying government workers including all the ministers an entry into the offices. Sometimes in the pretext of the said demonstration, demonstrators’ resort to looting and vandalizing government properties; they harass none-Dinka-Bor communities who they accused of none-partisans; they barricade government ministries when they decide not to allow a constitutional postholder appointed by the Governor. All these are happening whilst security force only watching.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The author, Mak Banguot Gok, can be reached via email at johnsonmak61@gmail.com  Â
