Carmela Santino
The Police Spokesperson in Western Bahr el Ghazal State on Wednesday denied the allegation from women who accused police that they were sexually assaulted by police after they were arrested while returning home from their respective workplaces.
Captain Ring John Chol discloses that the police were doing their work based on national-level orders to arrest the gang groups in the state.
He points out that the police did not sexually abuse any girls, they only arrested the gang group and took them to court based on order, citing that for police to ask for sexual favor, is a violation of the police act and a criminal offense.
John Chol said that the girls who were imprisoned were based on the outcome of the court because if there was no crime against them they would not be in jail.
The Police Spokesperson however promises that they are going to investigate the police personnel that were on duty that night, the girls, and any person that will be found guilty or involved in the case will face the law.
On Tuesday more than 8 female inmates at the women’s prison in Western Bahr el Ghazal state Wau, expressed their disappointment citing that they were arrested by police.
While returning home from their respective workplaces and after that, the policemen ask them for sexual favors or else they will be arrested.
They also added that some of them who agreed to have an affair with the policemen were set free and the rest of them who refused were taken to court. The official made these remarks to Voice of Hope Radio at his office in Wau.