South Sudanese police condemns killing of senior police officer in Juba

January 25, 2016 (JUBA) – South Sudan police authorities on Monday issued a stern statement condemning the killing of one of their officers and vowing to pursue the circumstances under which the officer was killed by unknown assailants.

Police Inspector General, Majok Arol, described the killing of Captain Satimon Mendiate, Director of Finance in the National Prisons Service in Juba, as “unfortunate and unacceptable”

Nobody has been apprehended for the murder of the police officer in the national capital where killings by unknown gunmen who always remain at large are widespread.

The body of the deceased was found on Monday morning in front of his house in Munuki suburb, in Juba. Nobody has been identified or suspected to have played a role in the killing of the officer.

Family members told Sudan Tribune that they woke up in the morning to find that the officer was lying outside the house with an automatic rifle next to his body about a meter away. No sounds of gunshots were heard and nothing was found anywhere in his body to suggest that he might have been strangled.

One of his sons, Emmanuel Juma, told reporters at the crime scene that one of the daughters of the deceased who was cleaning the compound found the body of the late father lying outside next to a gun.

This is the second incident in which police officers have been killed in the capital, Juba. A police officer was shot dead on Saturday in Rock City after calling the police to rescue him from armed robbers.

The rescuing police instead shot dead the other police officer after allegedly finding out that the accused armed robber was a member of their special police force operating in the area.

(ST)