Governor Lobong leaves troubled Nimule
Eastern Equatoria State Governor, Louis Lobong, returned to the state’s capital, Torit after spending days in Nimule to address insecurity that crept in following the murder of a chief over the weekend.
Speaking to The City Review yesterday, EES Governor Press Secretary, Aliandro Lotok, said, “the governor of Eastern Equatoria State came to monitor the security situation in Torit town but he will return to Nimule to continue building confidence and addressing security concerns in the area .’’
On Wednesday, July 13, Eastern Equatoria State said the governor had temporarily shifted his operations to the border town to restore peace in the cosmopolitan area.
“He did not say how long he would stay in Nimule but he is here (Nimule) because of what happened in Mugali on the 9th/7/2022 and the shooting of the chief on the 11th and for the issue to be resolved,” said the Minister of Information, Patrick Oting.
“He also wants to ensure that he gets to the bottom of the cattle issue by the end of July, as they decided in the meeting that all cattle should be taken away by the end of this month,” he added.
Oting revealed that the governor had been holding meetings with the host community and the Dinka Bor to address the brewing tensions that followed the killings of an area chief.
“The meeting with the Dinka Bor community was good. “They were] mostly the cattle herders and they have resolved that by the end of July all the cows will be taken and they also talked about cooperation with the host community,” he said.
The tension built up after a gunman stormed a funeral fundraiser meeting and pumped bullets into John Ebele, the Chief of Nzara Boma. Ebele was part of a group of mourners who were preparing for the burial of two young men whose bodies had also been discovered and were suspected to have been killed by cattle rustlers.
“The governor of Eastern Equatoria State came to monitor the security situation in Torit town but he will return to Nimule to continue building confidence and addressing security concerns in the area,’’- Aliandro Lotok, EES Governor Press Secretary.
