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Radio Tamazuj quotes Lina Ferdinand, the Chief Executive Officer for Women Training and Promotion (WATAP), as saying that she was among four workers detained at Baggari Payam by SPLA-IO on orders of the area commander she identified as General Benson Joseph.
“We have a construction through support from UNMISS’s Quick Impact Project in Ugali there, and while we were going for a monitoring visit, we were stopped in Bringi and taken to custody in Baggari under the order of an SPLA-IO field commander called General Benson Joseph,” she said.
Ferdinand said that she was kept by the SPLA-IO soldiers for two hours before being released after paying at least 250,000 South Sudanese Pound.
“When we were stopped in Bringi, they read a document that it was an arrest warrant issued against me, and there was no single crime I committed against them. The arrest warrant was issued by General Benson Joseph, saying I should be detained until he came and I should not be subjected to torture,” she said.
“I was detained for more than two hours till I was released after paying 250,000 SSP as 10 percent of the facility that we are constructing in the area.
“The way we were detained in Bringi was very bad. I was in a car when we were stopped and later called down one by one before four of us were taken to a cell in Baggari. I was treated like a crime because I was being questioned at gunpoint,” she added.
