Citizens of Torit complain to the state authorities to build and establish police outpost in all residential areas of the town.
The citizens believe that constructing small police stations in residential areas will help combat criminal activities in the state.
Radio Emmanuel reports that a resident of Torit Eunice Nakiru, says absence of police outpost has prompt increase rate of crimes in the town.
Eunice Nakiru urges Police and the local communities to build small police posts rather than depending on NGOs.
‘Up to now we don’t have the police, we don’t have the Police post but we can come with another we have the Chiefs, Chiefs don’t have the powers that can help him may be a girl or a woman which has been beaten to escape there for safety so that she will not be killed so as we keep on talking people are dying so when will we act, it is we to organize all this as we continue talking but we are not implementing in any other way so it become very hard on us now we depend on NGOs but we depend on us that is why we are not going ahead’, she complains.
Nakiru blames the police authorities for not responding to their calls in times of need
She reveals a neighbor killed her wife after several attempts to call the police forces
‘Yesterday we had a problem we and, a neighbor had a problem with the wife they ran to be rescued in my House afterwards when we were sleeping we don’t know the woman came out and this woman when back to the House the children were left behind, they fought and the woman was killed as we talk the woman is right now in the mortuary, if we were to have the police post or where to take this woman would have been now safe so we were calling, calling the station, calling nobody is picking the phone at 12:30 last night the woman is killed used by what knife and panga’, the citizen reveals.
State Police administrator Abraham Mathiang, blames area chiefs for not following issues raise to the concerned authorities amidst several complains.
‘Like the incident that happen yesterday, if there was an out-post there, it would have not happened, may be the suspect would have been arrested, my blames goes to the chiefs, the chiefs are to request, for how long have we been having rule of law with the complain of Out-post, outpost there is no any result no Chief has come forward saying I need this and that I have built a station, this has not happened, we who are present here we should not blame ourselves, we have to blames area Chiefs because they did not come with complains. No any area chief has presented his/her complain to the minister that I need the Police and I have made a police station there this has not happened’, he notes.
The administrator calls for cooperation between the local population and the police by reporting criminal activities to concerned authorities.
The Speakers were talking during the Rule of Law Forum organized by UNDP in collaboration with the State Ministry of Local Government in Torit on Wednesday.