United South Sudan Party’s elections campaigns, rightly exalted by the symbolic torch, have been so successful and popular with the electorate that, regrettably, certain elements belonging to other competing political parties seem to have chosen to view USSP’s popularity as a ‘threat’ to their campaigns. Consequently, they have unlawfully subjected USSP Leader, Mr Clement Mbugoniwia, to constant harassment, especially in Source Yubu, Western Equatoria State.
It was only on Tuesday and Wednesday that Mr Mbugoniwia was unlawfully arrested and detained for several hours by security forces and the police, presumably acting on orders from the SPLM, the very ruling party that is supposed to be entrusted with the onus of respecting citizens’ rights and upholding the tenets of the same democratic principles that they so claim to champion!
Fortunately, Mr Mbugoniwia’s situation was only salvaged by the Supreme Judge in the near-by town of Tambura, who ruled that no one had the right to detain the USSP Leader, and that he be given free access to Source Yubu so that he could resume and continue his rightful campaigns. (Please also see reporting on Sudan Tribune [accessed 16-Apr-2010])
United South Sudan Party demands in the strongest terms that, in the interests of democratic principles, fairness to all and our collective nationalism, such pathetic and unacceptable behaviour cease forthwith.
