Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan government has deployed members of the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF), South Sudan National Security Service (NSS) and South Sudan Police Service (SSNPS) in most areas of the country’s capital Juba, multiple eyewitnesses said.
This is apparently in preparation for protests that are planned by the People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA) on August 30, 2021 in which the protesters are expected to ask President Salva Kiir Mayardit and First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny to leave power.
Speaking to Sudans Post exclusively this evening, several eyewitnesses said joint security forces have been deployed heavily by the government at areas of Gudele, Munuki, Gumbo and several other areas including the Round-About adjacent to the Seventh-Day Adventists’ Church.
“They have been deployed in many areas of Juba and one of those areas is Round About and Gudele. I was coming from Gudele and there are many forces in pickup military vehicles, they are all over the city of Juba as I speak to you,” one eyewitness who refused to be named said.
Another eyewitness also told Sudans Post separately that security forces are even warning civilians against coming out on August 30 quoting one security officer as saying “anyone who come out of his house on that day does that on his own peril.” South Sudan police spokesman and his army counterpart were not immediately available at the time of this writing.
