SPLM-IO senior official shot in Nairobi
October 13, 2015 (NAIROBI) – A senior official of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (in opposition) led by the first vice-president designate, Riek Machar, was shot in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday morning.
“Thanks God I’m alive, 6 thieves broke into my house @2:00 in the morning, I sustained some bullets in my right leg. Injuries on my jaw, and elbow,” Luak wrote on his Facebook on Tuesday morning.
He said he was rushed to Mater Hospital, where the doctors bandaged his leg, stitched his jaw and elbow.
“I’m back home. They took my phone, school bags and other valuables,” he said.
It was not clear whether the police will conduct an investigation to ascertain whether the incident was carried out by thieves or by people masquerading as thieves with the intention to harm him.
Hundreds of his fans and relatives poured their sympathy to him in response to the Facebook news of the shootings, wishing him a quick recovery, with some calling for an investigation to be conducted.
Luak is a lawyer by profession and was the chairman of the South Sudan Law Society in Juba before the December 2013 crisis. He fled the country in early 2013 when his life was threatened after volunteering as one of advocates in defence of former SPLM secretary general, Pagan Amum, when he was dragged in court.
He joined the SPLM-IO in 2014 and has since been deputizing Richard K. Mulla, who is the chairman for the justice and human rights committee in the opposition faction.
(ST)