South Sudan's English Daily Newspaper
"We Dare where others fear"
By Awan Achiek
The South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) have deployed along the Torit-Kapoeta highway to prevent insecurity.
Maj.Gen Lul Ruai Koang, the Spokesperson of the SSPDF confirmed on Friday the decision taken by the army top brass to deploy the forces to fight armed criminals in hot spot areas of Camp 15 and Kidepo along the Torit-Kapoeta highway.
“Torit-Kapoeta highway is always having problems, around Camp 15 and Kidepo, there are bandits that always attack people there, they fire at vehicles and rob passengers of their properties and kill them,” Koang told The Dawn in Juba.
“The necessary unified forces were deployed there to ensure that the road is safe for everyone and the deployment was done within this week,” he disclosed.
Several armed ambushes have been staged along the Torit-Kapoeta highway that left hundreds of civilians killed since 2016.
Camp 15 is among the hotspot areas along the Torit-Kapoeta road which is plagued with cattle rustling, killings, vehicle ambushes and highway robberies.
In March 2021, the Governor of Eastern Equatoria State Louis Lobong Lojore survived a deadly ambush on the same road that left two people in his entourage killed.
The SSPDF top leadership deployed 700 unified forces to Eastern Equatoria State in 2023 to secure the borders of South Sudan with Kenya and Uganda.
