Mobs of rowdy youth targeted to kill trustees of cultural rites in Eastern Equatoria State as a result of crop failure due to unreliable rainfall in the first season of the year.
State Local Government and Law Enforcement Minister Lokai Iko says the mob killed Chollu Lamin in Lafon on allegation of failing to protect grains against birds while Sylvestro Achalili was tortured to death in Hiyala Payam of Torit County for failing to make it rain, Radio Emmanuel reported.
He discloses a plan to sensitize communities on global warming that threatens the entire world resulting to unreliable rainfall in several countries after some cultural trustees from Imurok, Ifotu and Lafon escaped to Torit town for safety.
Torit County Acting Public Prosecution Attorney John Wani observes that the killing of the two cultural trustees contravenes the constitution and constitute criminal act, calling for perpetrators to face the law to deter others from committing similar crimes.
He describes mob justice as a criminal act and that every individual has the right to fair trial in courts of law.
The Barristerwarns citizens against taking the law in their hands to execute suspects of any crime without giving a chance for the law to take its course.