Traditional leaders concluded a five days training on principle of law and human rights under the theme: ‘Towards a sustainable rule of law and access to justice for all’.
Lucia Juvani, UNDP representative says the trainings aims at strengthening and identifying customary laws which are inconsistency with the bill of rights and legal formal court.
The purpose of this workshop is to strengthen the traditional justice to operate within the rule of law and identify application of customary law within taking into account the issue of women’s right and children provides better understanding of application of customary law and identify inconsistency with the bill of rights and the principle of legal formal court and the international standard of human rights’, he emphasizes.
Francis Otto Oling, trepresentative of traditional leaders during the training appeals to the government and UNDP to extend the training to people at county level to benefit the entire population.
He calls on fellow chiefs to consider the statement of the accused and the complainant before passing judgment
‘We wish if this training will be extended or it is plan twice a year it will be a benefit for Torit state and it will also improve the life of the chief more especially in court because we have learn a lot that in a court both side should also give their testimony or their statement because it is good to judge one side we got a story of a certain chief in the chief stop the other person the accuse not to talk, Otto appeals.
The five days training which brought together over 40 traditional leaders of Torit and Nimule municipal councils was organize by Torit State Ministry of Local Government and Law Enforcement with support from UNDP.