South Sudan presidency says Peter Biar is a foreign spy

JUBA – South Sudan government has said this afternoon that Peter Biar Ajak, the South Sudanese economist and former National Security Service (NSS) detainee, is a foreign agent who has been spying senior government officials and the military establishment.

Peter Biar who was released earlier in 2019 through a presidential amnesty went to Kenya and then fled to the United States of America last week after saying South Sudan Security Agencies were seeking to arrest or even kill him.

Speaking to journalists on Friday, Ateny Wek Ateny, President Kiir’s press secretary, said Peter Biar was arrested in 2018 because of collusion with foreign agencies and that the government became suspicious of him after discovering that he was working for a Germany firm.

“Peter signed a “Contract for Independent Service” in early 2018 with a Berlin-based organization agency (name withheld). His undertakings with this agency and media presentations raised further suspicion and in July 2018, a warrant was issued for his immediate arrest,” Ateny said.

“The authorities confiscated Peter’s electronic devices for forensic analysis. Materials extracted from his computer and corroborated using online data confirmed the suspicion that Peter was, indeed, engaged in intelligence gathering, spying on military, intelligence agencies, and active Government officials, as well as colluding with violent oppositions,” Ateny added.

He further said that a “dossier the Government has gathered points to Peter’s collusion with foreign governments, international agencies, and violent groups to radicalize the youth to destabilize an-already troubled society.”

“Peter has not often engaged in peaceful activities allowed under the constitution of South Sudan. His subversive activities, which are injurious to the peace process and the leaders of the country, are notable,” he added.