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JUBA — A South Sudanese journalist working for the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) has been arrested by the National Security Service (NSS) for allegedly refusing to anchor news on presidential decrees on the reconstitution of the Transitional Council of State.
Speaking to Sudans Post exclusively on Wednesday evening, an SSBC employee who refused not to be named said journalist Alfred Angasi Dominic was arrested after he requested to be given a day off because his wife was sick which he said was translated by some colleagues as a refusal to read the news on the president’s decrees.
“He was arrested almost three weeks ago because he was taken as if he was refusing to anchor news on the decrees for the appointment of the members of the Council of State. His wife was sick and he requested a day off, but they thought he was refusing to read the presidential decree and then a few days later he was arrested,” the SSBC employee told Sudans Post on condition of anonymity.
The employee further revealed that after talks were held between the SSBC management and the National Security Service, an agreement was made that he is released last Thursday, July 15, 2021, but was not later on released because the person who arrested him was on leave and it was a tradition if the person who arrested someone is not available, the arrested person is not released.
“The SSBC management spoke to the national security and they eventually agreed to released him the next day, that was last Thursday, however, they didn’t release him and the reason we hear is that the security operative who arrested him was not there because they have a culture that if the person who arrested someone is not there, he cannot be released unless he returned from where he is,” he said.
“So, it is not clear when he will return back,” the employee added.
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“Journalist working for state-media arrested for refusing to anchor news featuring Kiir”
Well Journalist who are working for ‘South Sudan tax payers SSBTV, should sometimes heed the warning of authorities that things are not roses as you often read on internet, I am not a journalist, but many of our lowly informed idiots, think knowing English and write about how South Sudanese are *taban/sufferings* would make them journalists. Most lowly educated South Sudanese are the ones, playing game with our country and some of sponsors.
If the our low lives, that there is nothing called free speech on this planet earth. Mr. Donald Trump, who even called the African countries ‘shitholes’ was blocked by the big tech companies at so-called silicon valley, in the US. I worked for Google long time in Montreal, Canada. Google is a piece of trash,it has nothing to do with the US, take or leave it.
Our South Sudanese young babies and adults, should be informed about what they post ‘online’. Google, Facebook, Twitter, U-tube, Tiktok, myspace [not used these days like it used to be], whatapps, gmail (the worth of them all) et al. Don’t they say that there is nothing free on this planet earth. These social media, South Sudanese can used them and get away with, but be very careful of what you post online, it is monitored by people who don’t give damn about you, they just want to use you as their *medium or data* to achieve their evil ends.
Social media are just media otherwise would have been called different names, who is not social, who doesn’t live communities, that a literal definition of what the ‘communities and societies means’. Here in South Sudan, we are always projected ‘communist or socialists. And others who don’t have anything to show on this planet earths are always projected by our as superior than us.
Our Nuers ke nyantoc and their masters are going to be bombed to nothing, reasoner, pure HATRED and RACISM.
Mr. Gol; you got it all wrong. the reason of the arrest is not the journalist having posted any information on any social media, it is that he requested a day off “because his wife was sick”.
But My Anger is directed to the management of SSBC; having given Alfred Angasi Dominic the permission to go home, the management is still suppressed on the release of their own staff for a very FAKE reason. “the person who arrested went for leave”. this is the least anyone can take.
First of all, Alfred was arrested and put behind bars while he requested a one-day off for his sick wife, and now the arr-ester has gone on a long leave, leaving Alfred in HELL, and the SSBC management is saying “OK, we wait for him, and let Alfred Toil”. “This is Unbecoming”.
If SSBC is a Lapdog, where are the watchdogs??? inu, this case must never be tolerated anyway.
Mr. Gol; you got it all wrong. the reason of the arrest is not the journalist having posted any information on any social media, it is that he requested a day off “because his wife was sick”.
But My Anger is directed to the management of SSBC; having given Alfred Angasi Dominic the permission to go home, the management is still suppressed on the release of their own staff for a very FAKE reason. “the person who arrested went for leave”. this is the least anyone can take.
First of all, Alfred was arrested and put behind bars while he requested a one-day off for his sick wife, and now the arr-ester has gone on a long leave, leaving Alfred in HELL, and the SSBC management is saying “OK, we wait for him, and let Alfred Toil”. “This is Unbecoming”.
If SSBC is a Lapdog, where are the watchdogs??? inu, this case must never be tolerated anyway.