Ex-Yei county mayor brutally murdered in Juba

November 9, 2014 (JUBA) – Unknown assailants brutally murdered the former mayor of Yei River county in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria state, Cecilia Tito Oba, officials said on Saturday.

Central Equatoria state’s information minister, Soba Samuel confirmed the incident, adding that the ex-mayor and her office manager were brutally killed and dumped at a construction site.

“After their disappearance we found their bodies yesterday at around 3pm (local time) in Jebel and nobody knows what happened actually,” he told Radio Tamajuz.

Soba said both bodies were taken to the mortuary for investigation.

Oba was fired from her mayoral post in September and replaced with Santo Paul Lasuba.

She previously served as Central Equatoria state’s minister for cabinet affairs.

(ST)