Chiefs in Aweil East County in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state have called for the removal of the county high court judge Mathiang Kuach Mathiang for interfering in local cases meant to be handled by them.
Amet Mabior Yel one of the concerned chiefs said they have been left redundant without any work due to continuous interference of Mathiang Kuach Mathiang.
He said that the high court judge handles all cases including those about domestic violence, problems between husbands and wives which according to him can be solved by chiefs.
“We are appealing to the state government and the entire leadership of the national government to remove Mathiang Kuach Mathiang. We are being left without cases because he even made a woman with 9 children to divorce her husband. Again issues of cows are not his role, we can settle those matters peacefully but he takes those cases,” said Mabior during the celebrations organized by the Vice President for Service Cluster Hussein Abdelbagi for his late father Sultan Abdellabagi Ayii.
Mabior said that they have written to Majuur Laat the President of the high court in Aweil expressing their grievances over Mathiang’s actions.
Chief Atak Awan Anei also asked the state leadership to listen to their grievances, adding his voice among those calling for the removal of Mathiang.
“Now we are seen as people who don’t know rule of law when we incarcerate the suspect. He can spend the day in jail they get released and they go to Mathiang as if we don’t know how to handle the cases. Mathiang just makes verdicts without going deep like the case of a woman of 9 children why give divorce to such a woman,” said Awan.
Aweil East County Judge Mathiang when contacted said that all the people calling for his removal have no facts to incriminate him.
“I want to assure you that the approach you used are improper because government officials you are complaining to can’t remove me, write to Majuur in Aweil who is the president of high court and then he will write to the chief justice, Chan Reech Madut and they will ask for my reaction and if I am removed fine, I have spent more than 15 years in Aweil East County and I think I was giving legal services to you because you have a problem of illiteracy,” said Mathiang.
