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Edmund Yakani the Executive Director for CEPO (File Photo)

Press Release from CEPO

Some Traffic police officers aggression on drivers in Juba City

Juba 14th November, 2022. Recently our traffic police officers aggression on drivers in Juba City is absolutely humility and demonstrating attitudes of respect for rule of law. Many drivers raised complains about the misbehaver and aggression of some traffic police officers on them on the streets of Juba City. Community empowerment for Progress Organization is urging the leadership of the traffic police unit with due respect and honor it is essential to intervene and direct the traffic police officers on the streets to act in lawful and respective manner to all drivers on the streets 

Mr. Edmund Yakani, Executive Director of CEPO says aggressive and discriminative act from our traffic police officers towards the foreigner’s drivers in the streets of Juba City. Further, the national drivers too are badly mistreat and unlawful deal with by the traffic police officers on the streets. All these acts unaccepted and it constitute act of human rights violations. It is essential to prevent further demonstration of these traffic police officers aggressive and unlawful acts. Yes they are applying the law it should be in respective and lawful manner 

With due respect and honor, Inspector General of Police (IGP) should intervene urgently on this growing aggressive, misbehaviors and unlawful act of some of the traffic police officers on the streets of Juba City. Their negative act demonstrates the image of our nation to foreign drivers and it strongly contribute in making the citizens loss trust and confidence on our national police services. The practices of traffic police officers want to enforce the law in unlawful and aggressive manner is wrong. Mr. Yakani stressed 

Finally, CEPO is urging the national law makers to intervene too on this growing trend of some traffic police officers act unlawful and aggressively in enforcing the law        

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