Three arrested for illegal entry to South Sudan
Police in Torit have arrested three suspects for illegal crossing of the border into South Sudan.
The suspects are said to have defied orders closing and stopping entries from neighbouring countries to South Sudan as a means of controlling spread of corona virus.
According to Cleophas, his office got tipped off about the illegal act after the first two suspects made their ways into South Sudan through Tseretenya border in Ikwoto County
‘What is really happening on date 28th of March, we were surprised by the call that there were two people entering into South Sudan, one is female and male with our effort with CID we managed to arrest the suspects and they were taken early in the morning to police station. Also at midday we received some information that there was another suspect coming from Potopoto via Tseretenya, we searched for him and got him in MTN center and we took him also to the police station to make three people’, he explained.
‘For sure the roads have already closed, but there are some vehicles roads and some people came using vehicles one should was the driver and the other claim to a turn boy and that is how they enter into the area’, the officer added.
Cleophas stated that the suspects have been isolated waiting for a test on corona virus once testing kits arrives Torit.
‘Medical personnel in Torit State Hospital keep the suspects for self-quarantine. And you know the symptoms of this disease it need isolation, so we return these people back to their chairman, the two are from Uganda and one is a South Sudanese by nationality working for Ark for Humanity and we told the Ugandan chairman to keep these people until the testing machine will be brought and we shall go to see what will happen next’, the inspector clarified.
The official called on citizens to keep watch and alert relevant authorities over illegal actions that may expose the public to COVID-19 infection.
In a related story, Police in Torit are looking for unidentified attacker who shot and injured a boda-boda passenger along Hillie–Hatire road on Monday evening.
Torit Central Police Inspector Justine Cleophas Takuru confirmed to Radio Emmanuel that the passenger and the rider were returning to Torit from Hatire Payam when the incident occurred.
‘This problem happen yesterday there is a person from Somalia at the age of 48 he has a lorry there in Hatire which carrying logs and he is staying here in Torit and he was given information that the lorry is going to carry the logs he hired a boda from here, he went from here and reach at around twelve he sat and prepare his properties and they came back after reaching in the middle at around five to six he said as they were going somebody shot them from behind the owner of the motor bike was shot at the right hand side that is the semolina and the rider continued since he was also a Ugandan and the other was a field office for he brought this person not until they reach here at around eight’, he explained.
Takuru appealed to citizens to refrain from criminal activity and embrace peace in the communities.
Two weeks ago, South Sudan authorities closed its borders and suspended international flights to prevent spread of COVID-19 in the country.
The order however allows tracks and cargo flights with less than three crew members.