{"id":31806,"date":"2023-02-08T16:14:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-directs-law-enforcement-agencies-to-probe-arrest-kajo-keji-killers"},"modified":"2023-02-08T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:14:23","slug":"kiir-directs-law-enforcement-agencies-to-probe-arrest-kajo-keji-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-directs-law-enforcement-agencies-to-probe-arrest-kajo-keji-killers","title":{"rendered":"Kiir directs law enforcement agencies to probe, arrest Kajo-Keji killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered law enforcement agencies to probe and bring to book perpetrators who last Thursday killed over 20 unarmed civilians in Lire Payam of Kajo Keji County in Central Equatoria State.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday press statement seen by Radio Tamazuj, Kiir regretted the incident, saying there is no justifiable explanation for the murders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no justifiable explanation for this uncalled violence at the time when the leaders of the two communities have initiated processes of returning cattle to their areas of origin,\u201d the president said. \u201cIt is on this basis that I strongly condemn the actions of the perpetrators of these crimes and urgently direct the law enforcement agencies to thoroughly investigate what took place in Kajo-Keji.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese investigations must not amount to nothing, they must aim at holding the instigators and perpetrators of these heinous crimes accountable for their actions,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Kiir said he was deeply saddened by the incident and that it was unfortunate that it happened when the country needed peace the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt came when at a time when the entire world was watching our preparations for welcoming Pope Francis and the other two prominent religious Christian leaders for a historic ecumenical pilgrimage of peace to our country,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, on the eve of the pope\u2019s arrival in Juba, pastoralists from Bor County in Jonglei State who are grazing their cattle in Kajo Keji County gunned down 21 people in a revenge attack after an attack on the latter\u2019s cattle camp left 6 dead and another 6 people injured.<\/p>\n<p>President Salva Kiir sent a message of condolence to the grieving families and called on them to leave the issues to authorities to handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the grieving communities, I convey my heartfelt condolences to you and urge you not to allow the appeal of revenge for your losses to drive you to commit further acts of violence,\u201d Kiir counseled. \u201cI am fully aware of how hard it is to cope with tragedies of this nature, but I maintain that you leave this to authorities to resolve both the root causes of this issue as well as use the full force of the law to hold the culprits accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered law enforcement agencies to probe and bring to book perpetrators who last Thursday killed over 20 unarmed civilians in Lire Payam of Kajo Keji County in Central Equatoria State. In a Wednesday press statement seen by Radio Tamazuj, Kiir regretted the incident, saying there is no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":31805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,293],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-31806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kiir directs law enforcement agencies to probe, arrest Kajo-Keji killers - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-directs-law-enforcement-agencies-to-probe-arrest-kajo-keji-killers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kiir directs law enforcement agencies to probe, arrest Kajo-Keji killers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. 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