JUBA – At least three South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) soldiers have been arrested for allegedly ambushing and looting a vehicle in Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria State, Radio Tamazuj reports.
On Wednesday last week, armed men laid an ambush and shot at a commercial vehicle which they proceeded to loot but no casualties were reported.
The acting commander of the SSPDF Brigade 2 stationed in Magwi County, Col. Baptist Otto, confirmed the arrest of the soldiers and said they have been referred to Juba for further investigation.
“They robbed people, they even shot at one car. They missed shooting the women who were in the driver’s cabin. This is true. The suspects were taken yesterday (Monday), they were taken to Juba. They were in their camps of mobilization in Magwi at the old barracks of the Sudanese soldiers,” Col. Otto said
He named the arrested soldiers; Sergeant James Ohide, Regimental Sergeant Major Stephen Ohide Odong, and Captain Paul Manga Mary.
For his part, the local police inspector, Lt. Bongomin Godfrey Dorteo, said, “You know, when the incident happened, we went there the following day to make our investigations as security people and the people we have arrested are suspects and we are yet to do more investigations on whether they are the ones who ambushed the vehicle or not. We are still investigating. They will be presented in court.”
The Magwi County executive director, Ocheng David Tokwaro, commended the efforts of the army in apprehending the suspected criminals in their ranks. He said they have been suspecting the soldiers (SSPDF) of being behind the incident since the area has no rebels.
“Yes, that happened between Obbo and Magwi but closer to Magwi. I got information from our security personnel of military intelligence that they managed to apprehend them,” Tokwaro said. “These were all soldiers who were doing this. They have been arrested and now taken to Juba.”
He added: “Since we do not have rebels in this area, we were expecting them. We appreciate their work, the security personnel worked very hard. People now move without any hindrance.”
Heavy good drivers have for close to two weeks now refused to enter South Sudan and are demanding improved security. The drivers, mostly from Somalia, Kenya, and Somalia also accuse South Sudanese armed forces of extortion, multiple taxations, killings, and robbing them among other vices.
The government of South Sudan on its part blames holdout rebel groups for road ambushes, an indictment that the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance (SSOMA) denies.
“3 SSPDF soldiers arrested for ambushing, looting in Eastern Equatoria state”
I don’t think Acholis of Magwi would let themselves be ‘soiled’ by criminals who are not on par with us. The Acholis of Magwi, Ame [r] Lapon, ‘Awic ki bul’ Torit and other areas are Acholis countries and other South Sudanese countries’. When our Nuers ke nyantoc ‘let their balls carried them away in 1991and stabbed our mighty SPLM/A at the back, and staged a coup, against the SPLM/A. One of the Acholis boy was killed here in Bor, Mr. Joseph Odhuho. Mr. Lam Akol, Aduok Nyabe his leg was destroyed at the battle Jokou, by the Nuers (Anya Nya II). Mr. Aduok Nyabe is had been taken as an SPLM/A elder. Simply because, he lost his leg and because he is an elder. But but he thought, everyone has to throw tantrum, everyone here in South Sudan has been injured, very badly, some not very badly in battle fields and they they are ones, who are fixing things up.
When I was injured in the battle of Kapoeta in 2002, we were taken to Lupinding hospital, Lockichogio by the ICRC. Some of my South Sudanese boys were ‘crying in pains, on the next wads/pods’, because their ‘limbs were being cut out’.
Probably my injury was not as bad as those young South Sudanese boys. I met one of them in Juba a few years ago. He stood tall, these are boys complain less. They should be the ones taken care off, their babies, their widows, some of our low lives have seen.
People who have been disabled in battle, are just the same like everybody else *In Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan*.
*Countries which take care of their own injured people are the ones playing Paralympics, in Tokyo*.
People of Japan are very honest, some of our South South Sudanese refugees were taken to their country from Kakuma refugee camp, to go and run, in Olympics.
That same rubbish was done in Brazil, Olympics: https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/athletics-refugee-team-james-chiengjiek-falls-tokyo-2020#:~:text=There%20was%20devastation%20for%20IOC,and%20tumbled%20to%20the%20ground.
https://time.com/6077132/tokyo-olympics-refugee-team/
These are the lowliest of the lowliest. Follow us fools. Rebecca Nyandeng piece of trash was even allowed to go to Tokyo for South Sudanese. A prostitute and a lowly educated piece of trash, shouldn’t had been allowed to represent South Sudan and the South Sudanese people in Toykyo.
I understand, that she is going to go and represent South Sudan and the South Sudanese people on that devil infested bailing in New York, probably she will go and meet, Mr. Pagan Amuom traitor and scream outside that devil infested building, that *South Sudan should be taken over by the UN, NGOs, the IGAD, the African UN (the AU), the UNMISS and all* Then South Sudan would be a country that love the world.
Fellows, these low lives, love to live over the backs of other people.>>>
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