S. Sudan spy agency detains 10 members of criminal network in Juba

JUBA — South Sudan’s National Security Service has arrested at least ten (10) suspects belonging to the Juba criminal network commonly known as Toronto boys who are accused of frequent roads snatching in Juba City.

Speaker to reporters in Juba this afternoon, David John Kumuri, spokesman of National Security Service (NSS), said the suspects were apprehended recently during crackdown in Juba.

“The Internal Security Bureau has the pleasure to announce to the public that National Security Operation Force has crackdown and arrested more than 10 suspected criminals accused of road snatching locally known as Torontos,” Kumuri told reporters this afternoon in Juba.

Kumuri disclosed that the operation came following the outcry of public about the activities of Torontos Boys in Juba.

“The operation emerged given the series of dismayed highways and city robberies while on motor cycles which sometimes resulted into loss of one’s belonging or sustained injuries inflicted on the victims of the act while on motor cycles,” Kumuri said.

“Of recent, in one of the most disheartening and felonious acts, the gangs who are commonly known as Torontos snatched  pregnant woman of her belongings while traveling on Boda Boda, the act that left the victim succumbing to dead due to injuries sustained during the road robbery perpetrated on her,” Kumuri explained.

As Kumuri parade the 10 Torontos Boys before reporters on Thursday at National Security Internal Bureau, he said their activities have over the past years traumatized and inflicted essence of insecurity among the citizens in Juba.

“This and other forms of criminal acts performed by group have for years traumatized and inflicted the essence of insecurity into the minds and hearts of residents of Juba city as well as other cities across the country,” he said.

“The act is national security threat and thus required national security concern since it jeopardizes the security and peaceful co-existence of the common persons in the country,” he added.

He said the arrest of those Toronto Boys should sound alarm to the rest at large to cease from such activities.

“The crackdown and arrest of these Toronto Boys sound an alarm to the rest of their person-in-crimes to steadfastly abundant the act or risk being simultaneously arrested,” he added.

He said those apprehended are undergoing investigation and they will be arraigned before the court soon.

“The National Security hereby calls upon the general public to corporate with all the law enforcement agencies by revealing traces that will lead to apprehension of suspects in order to create a peaceful and secure state,” he said.