Kiir Cleans House: Health, Humanitarian, and Security Chiefs Out in Surprise Decrees

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Juba Police Have Arrested 44 Gang Members

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Juba Police have arrested a total number of 44 notorious gang members after clashing in Juba leaving two people dead. 

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General Majok Daniel the police spokeperson said that the police officers were swift in apprehending the notorious gang. 

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“There were issues related to these young gangsters. They were involved in some insecurities where they used to fight each other. In Hai Kosti, they fought, and as a result, one boy was killed, and the same thing happened at Lologo, they fought, and one boy was also killed,” Majok said. 

Two members of the gang were killed and they planned to revenge their fallen member but their plan of the revenge fail when the police was notified by some civilians. 

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 “We managed to arrest 44 in total, 42 were members of a group called Wrong Gang, and they were fighting a group called Soldier Boys. There are many groups; there are Lock World, Rich Gang, and Star Boys. These are the groups we have already identified, and we know their places, but during this operation, we managed to arrest these 44 people. The investigation has now started, and now we are about to finish it,” Majok said. 

Knives, crude weapons, lighters, clubs studded with nails was captured by the police before the youths use it to fight. 

Gen. Justin appealed to parents to take good care of their children and prevent them from being involved in criminality.

The Police spokesperson is appealing to the parents to also care and support their children inorder to prevent them into becoming hardened criminals. 

“We are appealing to parents to play their roles. It is a very serious matter and some families do not know what their children are doing and they need to monitor them very closely,” he said. “We (police) have to complement each other with families because they are responsible when the children are at home, but when they are out on the streets; we (police) will take the responsibility.” Majok said. 

This is not the first time the Juba police arrested gang members. Last year, police carried out a similar raid in which nearly 60 gang members were arrested.

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