By Ngor Deng Matem
Aweil High Court in Aweil has sentenced 63 boys and girls to up to six (6) months in prison for inciting violence.
Twenty-one (21) boys have been convicted for 6 months’ imprisonment and 42 girls for 3 months, respectively, with a fine of 30, 000 SSP each.
According to the presiding judge, the convicts have been charged with crimes under articles 177, 79, and 86 of the South Sudan Penal Code Act of 2008.
These convicts were among 143 gang boys and girls aged between 16 and 28 arrested on July 11, 2023, after a feud or violence that left many people injured.
Northern Bahr El Ghazal State Police spokesperson Captain Guot Guot Akol earlier confirmed the arrest of the 143 young boys and girls.
“We managed to arrest 81 boys and 62 girls. We found them in the Violence that occurred at the MBC hotel in Aweil town on the evening of July 11th. They fought in a club in the hotel,” Captain Guot said.
The young men and girls were accused of causing violence and subsequently attacking the nurses at Aweil State Hospital.
“After the fighting in the club, those who were injured were taken to Aweil Hospital.” Immediately, these people who were arrested stormed the hospital and attacked those they injured, including nurses too,” the police spokesperson noted.
Captain Guot said the police then had to intervene and arrest the gang members causing havoc in the town.
A day after the attack, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, Governor Tong Akeen Ngor banned the nightclubs at the hotels.
He then directed the members of the security organs to immediately implement the order and arrest those errant teenage boys and girls, the so-called Nigga, that always stir public disorder.