Egyptian presidency delegation visits South Sudanese boy who was attacked last week in Cairo

JUBA – A delegation from the Egyptian presidency has visited the 14-year old South Sudanese boy who was attacked in Cairo last week by a group of four Egyptian who forced him along with his sister to wash household utensils before exposing his private parts to flames, according to a statement by a Cairo-based Nile basin organization.

Akok Lual, a 14-year-old South Sudanese refugee boy was attacked on the streets of Cairo neighborhood of Ain Shams at dawn on April 30. He was forced into an apartment where a woman and his sons forced him to wash dishes while being verbally and physically assaulted.

His two sisters also were reportedly forced to film naked and had their hairs shaved forcefully. Later on, the Egyptian authorities arrested the four criminals and they are now being investigated following an arrest warrant by the Egyptian public prosecutor.

In a statement on Tuesday night, the Centre for Nile Basin Unity, a Cairo-based organization that hosted a South Sudan youth conference in Egypt last month said a delegation from the Egyptian presidency led by Egyptian General Consult in Juba, Ambassador Ahmed Musaad Al-Bakri visited Akok and his family.

“On May 11, 2021, a delegation from the Presidency of the Republic visited the family of the South Sudanese citizen, Akok Kual, at their residence in Cairo. The delegation was accompanied by Counselor/Ahmed Musaad Al-Bakri, Consul General of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Juba,” the statement seen by Sudans Post reads in part.

“The delegation was reassured of the health and moral condition of the South Sudanese citizen Akok Kuol and his family, especially after the individual incident to which he and his family were exposed,” the statement adds.

The statement added that “the visiting delegation affirmed the strength of bilateral relations between Egypt and South Sudan at the official and popular levels, and the delegation stressed that the citizens of South Sudan in Egypt are not foreigners, but they are citizens in their second homeland and living with Egyptians side by side as brothers and sisters, and the delegation expressed that the perpetrators of the individual incident are before the judiciary that will decide on the incident, noting that the Egyptian state’s executive and security institutions take over the incident and that the citizens of South Sudan in Egypt pay all attention in a framework of deserved friendliness and respect, and the delegation congratulated the family on the occasion of the glorious Easter holiday.”