06 May 2016 :

two murder suspects, Marop Manguen and Majong Makom, were allegedly executed by firing squad on the orders of the Gok State top authority, Governor Madhang Majok. On 28 April, Marop Manguen’s father, Mangot Manguen Mamer, told The Nation Mirror newspaper that his son was executed at the outskirt of Cueibet after more than one month in police custody. Marop surrendered himself to the police after he ‘mistakenly’ killed a son and son-in-law of Commissioner Gop Achien of the newly created Duony County. “When I learnt that my son had done a mistake I handed him over to the police and he was in police until he was taken out with another man and executed,” Mangot said in an exclusive interview. He said as a family they had agreed to pay 51 cattle as blood compensation to the relatives of the deceased through traditional justice, but were surprised by the action of the governor. Mangot said the day before the execution, the governor had promised to visit Duony County and had asked the chiefs of the area to receive him the following day; only for the chiefs to find out that two people were executed. Gok State Information Minister, John Madol Panther, vehemently denied that there was an execution in the State and faulted The Nation Mirror for publishing what he termed as “false reports”.