Commissioner abducted in Yei River State Obaj Shago | December 5, 2016 | 4:49 pm
The Governor of Yei River State says the Commissioner of Kangapo County has been abducted by unknown gunmen. David Lokonga Moses says Julius Tabule was abducted in Bori payam yesterday on his way to a funeral service. He spoke to Eye Radio this afternoon: “In fact, he went for prayers of funeral, then he ended up in the hands of these unknown gunmen who abducted him and we don’t know [where he is]. I am still not getting details, but I am trying to establish contacts from the ground – the local authorities there on the ground in Kajo-kiji.” Governor Lokonga didn’t accuse any particular armed groups; but the said the security units were still gathering information on the whereabouts of the commissioner. Meanwhile, the SPLA spokesperson says the army clashed with some armed men in some parts of Yei River State over the weekend.Brigadier General Lul Ruai Koang says the two sides fought in Kargulu, Lasu and Umbasi villages.Brigadier Lul told Eye Radio that the SPLA is still contacting the commanders from the ground to establish the casualty figures. He said: “Some armed criminals made an attempt on a number of military hot spots around Yei, but all those attempts were unsuccessful. We have not been able to arrest them but we were able to fight them back and we maintained full control of the places they had attempted to take from us. I’m talking of Kargulu, Lasu and Umbasi.“These are armed elements that were trying to cause insecurity, that were trying to disturb public peace. We are still receiving reports from our field commanders but I can assure you that the SPLA fought a very good fight, we were able to return very overwhelming fire and a deadly one, our special forces were involved in ground attack and they were given very good air support by the SPLA air force.” Emanuel Joseph Akile contributed to this report. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14ooULcgGh7biU8dc6NWYS4L4dQN4%2BiCsysXqzj8qTX%3DoRw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
