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A RENOWNED VETERAN JOURNALIST, MR. ISAAC VUNI,WAS MURDERED COLD BLOODED BY THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENTS & HIS BODY DAMPED IN AGRICULTURAL FIELD.

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Nimule, September 26, 2016; Veteran journalist Isaac Vuni who was well known for his Excellency journalistic work was found dead. Isaac Vuni a native of kerepi, Pageri County was abducted under gun point in the night pajama while he was sleeping with his younger brother in their house situated at Kerepi, Borongle.

Isaac Vuni, was a well known South Sudanese journalist who vigorously champion the cause of the SPLA during the war of Liberation through his patriotic writings. He was abducted along with one of his younger brother, Andruga.  The two brothers were snatched from the safety of their homes by unknown gunmen suspected to be members of notorious national security service (NSS) members.

They were kidnapped on Saturday night, 4 June 2016. According an eye witness, the two brothers were resting at home in their family house at Borongole located approximately 3km from Kerepi trading Center, Pageri County, Eastern Equatoria State.  

“There was nothing suspicious and the two brothers are peaceful and have no enemies with their neighbors or in the community at large.” Said one of the eye witnesses who spoke to this website at the time Isaac Vuni was abducted.

At the time he was abducted according to an eye witness who spoke to South Sudan Liberty News said in the late evening hours, when some gunmen dressed in military uniform, came and snatched the two brothers and took them to unknown location. This was statement made by one of the eye witnesses on June 8, 2016.

On phone interview on 8 June 2016, another eye witness, a woman, who was at home where the two brothers were kidnapped, said the gunmen wore military uniform, the kind that is often worn by the tiger soldiers, who are stationed in the nearby Nyongwa village.

Since June, 4, 2016, nothing was heard about Isaac Vuni till his lifeless body was discovered by someone being damped in abandoned field. According to people who sawed his lifeless body said it seems he died from gun fire, most likely he was shot somewhere before he lifeless body was brought damped to abandoned cassava field apparently by the security forces who have been killing civilians in the areas in the past months.

Andrew Olweny.

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