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Good Evening, its 5 o’clock I’m Agole Alex
The Headlines
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Analyst warns of dangers of delayed peace.
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Education Ministry announces dates for South Sudan secondary certificate exams.
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Police to be issued identification cards.
A political analyst has warned that prolonging negotiations is only resulting into more suffering of the people.
Luka Biong, from the Center of Peace and Development Studies at the University of Juba says a decision needs to be
made on whether to have what he refers to as ‘bad peace’ or no peace at all.
Luka Biong says the choice should be left to the people of South Sudan.
Clip…………………………………Luka Biong 1
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You know the people of South Sudan humanitarian situation is going to deteriorate even with might be expecting
famine we have more massive displacement going to happen.”
The Ministry of Education has announced dates for the South Sudan secondary certificate examinations.
While releasing the timetable in Juba, Undersecretary in the National Education Ministry – Michael Lopuke Lotiam said
the exams will be written from the 27th of April to the 7th of May.
Lopuke says the examinations are based on the Sudanese curriculum, but the students will be issued with South Sudan
certificates.
He says Eastern Equatoria and Abyei have not provided candidates this year because they have started implementing
the South Sudan curriculum.
Clip………….Lopuke 2
“Note that zero registration in both eastern equatorial state and Abyei as I have said early is due to the complete
facing out of the curriculum for Sudan it is important again to emphasize that the exams that is due to take place on
27th April 2015 and end on May 7th 2015 is based on Sudan curriculum”
More than 10-thousand students are set to sit the exams.
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The Member of Parliament representing Keji- Keji county in the Central Equatoria State Legislative Assembly is
reiterating concerns of the people of his community regarding an influx of cattle hearers in his constituency.
Oliver Mule says Liwolo and Nyepo payams have been occupied by the herders, causing fear amongst the farmers.
Mule says a quick intervention from both the national and state governments is needed in order to prevent any conflict
between the farmers and the cattle keepers
Clip……………….Mule 3
“What are asking for is very simple we want these people to evacuate and allow our people to farm because it is
about their livelihood this is simple message, for several times we have been asking our government to get us people
concerned because we know actual those people moving with the cattle don’t own those cattle those cattle perhaps
belongs to big shots in the government who also own these cattle, so we have been struggling for is to get an
opportunity to meet the cattle owners themselves so that you know we can discuss with them in an amicable way
about the danger it is posing”
Early this week it was reported that several hundred herders with their families and about 30-thousand head of cattle
had entered Central Equatoria, on their way to their places of origin in Jonglei.
An ongoing polio vaccination campaign is progressing well in Central Equatoria.
The State ministry of health this week launched a 3 day door-to-door vaccination campaign for all children under the age
of 5 years.
The campaign that ends today, targets more than three hundred thousand (300.000) children in all six counties.
The state manager of the expanded programme on immunization, George Alzenio Legge, says the vaccinators have so
far covered 90% of the areas identified.
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Clip……………….. George Alzenio Legge 4
“Each boma at least we are having a team and at least in Juba here each hai we are having a team so we are following
them especially here in Juba now I am seeing it is going well .Each county we are having the state supervisor the
person has been sent from the state ministry of health to supervise the campaign in the county so to ensure and
assist the county there in technical thing this is why we know everything is going ok.”
You are listening to Radio Miraya News
Police officers will soon be issued with official ID cards in an effort to professionalize the institution.
Spokesperson for the South Sudan National Police Service, Col Monay Enoka told Radio Miraya that the appropriate
equipment to make the cards has now been delivered from the United Kingdom with the assistance of the United
Nations Development Programme.
He says impersonating a police officer is a crime and every officer will soon carry a valid ID to properly identify
themselves.
Clip……………………..Monday Enoka 5
“The ID card of the police is stipulated in the law. Regulations for the police make it clear that every police officer
must have a card and police number. The problem we had was how to print these cards. You need special devices
such as the existing machines with the department of Immigration. Now with input from the United Nations
Development Programme(UNDP) we are introducing 12 devices from Britain and very soon the cards will be
distributed to the police”.
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Police in Lakes State have started receiving their salary arrears.
Early this week the police officers had given the State Police commissioner 5 days to pay their arrears of January,
February and March – threatening to strike if they did not receive payment.
Police Commissioner Cosia Kedit Mortat says the delay was because of an administrative irregularity in Juba, which has
since been resolved.
Mortat says salaries for January and February are being paid out, while payments for March will be made soon.
Clip…………… Mortat salaries 6
“So I brought the balance which was left out so now there money it is full and they are start now to pay. Now we
have no any problem again, we found that there were some people who brought from Khartoum and there were
observed into the police force their money, they headquarter used to brought their salary separately from the force
which brought problem in the Police salary, they did not sent these money again for about six months, so those who
were observed in our force, they used to get their money from our money that is a problem we found there, so now
they have noted that”.
Still in Lakes, four people have been killed in an attack on a cattle camp in Majak-Ajok –Rumbek Center.
Police commissioner Cosia Kedit Mortat says a group of armed men raided the camp inhabited by members of the Ruop
community - late last night.
He says it appears to have been a revenge attack.
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Clip……………….. Mortat attack 7
“Some people are still making revenged until last night in Majak-Ajok ,there are some people shot people while they
are sleeping, they report I got they say that they are four , so now we have got four people dead and those people
who are reported to be Pakam, this is what I received this morning and we have send our people also to go and bring
the exact report to us today”.
Boda-boda riders have been advised not to operate during late hours.
This comes after a noted increase in thefts and crimes committed against the public motorcycle operators.
Chairperson of the South Sudan boda-boda association, Abraham Jok says the riders should start work at 8 o’clock in the
morning and stop operations by 10 o’clock at night.
Jok says the riders should also report any suspicious activity to the Police.
Clip…………………….Abraham Jok 8
“I have talked to all the boda-bodas to make sure if one of them has spotted a suspicious person around them or with
a gun he should immediately call 777 that is one of the protective measures we are trying to take. Two, I also a
chairman of South Sudan Motorcycle Boda-Boda Association also informed the boda-bodas to stop riding at exactly
around 7pm, 8pm and up to ten in the evening. And then in the morning they should not 6. Let them start their work
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at 8 and 9 am. Now these criminals they normally take advantage of these late hours to rob people and kill people.
This is also one of the measures I am trying to put in place with the boda-boda riders.”
And in foreign news, the Nigerian army says it has destroyed the headquarters of the Boko Haram after capturing the
northeastern town of Gwoza from the Islamist insurgent group.
The town is believed to have been the headquarters of the militant group.
Several members of the group had been killed and a mop-up operation was taking place in the city.
News of the recapture comes a day before presidential elections, which were postponed by six weeks because of the
offensive against Boko Haram.
To end the news, here are the headlines once again.
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NEWS BULLETIN SCRIPT Monday,
February
15, 2016
26h March 2015

Analyst warns of dangers of delayed peace.

Education Ministry announces dates for South Sudan secondary certificate exams.
AND
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Police to be issued identification cards.
Thanks for listening I am Agole Alex
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