{"id":20187,"date":"2023-11-21T08:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=20187"},"modified":"2023-11-21T08:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:03:25","slug":"police-nabs-over-70-suspected-gang-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/police-nabs-over-70-suspected-gang-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Police nabs over 70 suspected gang members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gladys Fred Kole<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Police, on Sunday evening, apprehended 70 individuals suspected of different criminal activities in Gumbo-Sherikat.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are under detention and investigations are ongoing,\u201d Police spokesperson Maj Gen. Daniel Justin told No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Justin said the operation will continue for 21 days, as per the new inspector general&#8217;s office, who is currently looking into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing was confiscated from them, but we are getting information from those women whose bags were snatched, Toronto\u2019s who are involved with motorbikes snatching phones and niggas,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesperson, the CID is already gathering information to identify those involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still investigating; the number is big; investigations need to be fair and clear so that anybody innocent will be released; no problem; those involved will face the law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Justin announced that the crackdown on criminal activities is going to take place in the whole of Juba, particularly in active areas like Lologo, Gudele, and Mauna.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasizes the danger of street gangs, who are known to harm anyone on the street and often cut or take belongings in groups, citing Gumbo, where people were threatened so severely that they couldn&#8217;t move at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have intensified our patrolling in those hot spot areas; we have deployed a lot of police, and we will be monitoring; our community leaders are also engaged in giving timely information about any suspected criminal activity; once they call, we shall interfere immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The police urge parents to be vigilant about their children&#8217;s whereabouts and drug-free status, as they have a significant role to play in preventing potential victims.<\/p>\n<p>For her part, Betty Yangi, a Lologo resident, has lauded the police for this tremendous work done and therefore urges them to continue with the operation they have already started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree criminals walked to me at 5 p.m.; I was headed home with my little daughter, and they told me to surrender my phone and bag here in Lologo,\u201d Yangi said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Yangi hoped for continued police operations to combat city criminals,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rate of crime in Juba is on the increase, especially in these last months of the year; we really need help; we live and move in fear beyond 6 p.m.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Upon taking office, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) has taken a stringent stand on the notorious groups, best known as Niggers, promising to deal with them in a tough way.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting his first 90 days in office, IGP Marol further talked tough on the issues of gang boys who have been terrorizing the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIssues of niggers are going to be a priority. Starting tomorrow, I want to promise, and I want to ask whoever has a child who is outside and operating as a nigger, my administration will not allow that,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he would work with all police officers so that they cooperate together to execute their police mandate of keeping law and order and protecting the citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gladys Fred Kole &nbsp; Police, on Sunday evening, apprehended 70 individuals suspected of different criminal activities in Gumbo-Sherikat. &#8220;They are under detention and investigations are ongoing,\u201d Police spokesperson Maj Gen. Daniel Justin told No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper yesterday. Gen. Justin said the operation will continue for 21 days,<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/21\/police-nabs-over-70-suspected-gang-members\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Picture-of-the-arrested-suspected-criminals-Photo-by-South-Sudan-National-Police-Service.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20189,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187\/revisions\/20189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}