Around 20 law implementing agents trained on rule of law, good governance in Aweil

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About twenty staff members from police service, protection unit, prison service and judiciary are taking part in a two-day workshop on empowerment of rule of law and good governance in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The multi-partners training had started on Thursday in Aweil Town’s Niavasha residential area and expected to be concluded on Friday. Speaking to Voice News Agency regional correspondent, Bol Makuach, program officer for the Hope Africa South Sudan (HASS), a national based humanitarian and advocacy organization, said the concept is to create awareness and bring people together to understand real meaning for the rule of law. “We wanted to create awareness, bring people to understand the meaning of rule of law in Greater Northern Bahr el Ghazal,” Makuach said. “The number of the participants we are targeting today (Thursday) is supposed to be 20 from four departs as following: protection unit, police service, prison service and judiciary,” he added. The Participants expressed their willingness to take part in discussions and vowed to dispatch the message to their colleagues who didn’t attend the encouragements. Arek Akol, a newly promoted 1st Lt. in the prison service, said it was her first time to attend a capacity building training and she hoped to gain enough skills through this event. “This is the first time in my life to attend workshop! I believe I will understand more during topics’ discussions because we are meeting our fellow personnel from the prison service, police service among others and will gain enough knowledge on laws protection and implementation,” she felt proud. On his part, the Aweil High Court’s senior clerk, John Muor Kuach has explained his purpose for attending was to equip himself with knowledge in records keeping and civil rights during court proceedings. “I just came here to attend this workshop for two days, I need to learn how to understand keeping of records in the court and know the independence and civil rights. I also came here to take experiences from this workshop to other court clerks,” said Muor. The program is condcuted by Hope Africa South Sudan with support from UNDP.

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