{"id":37125,"date":"2025-07-02T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=37125"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:41:44","slug":"crackdown-police-arrests-over-600-suspected-gangsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/crackdown-police-arrests-over-600-suspected-gangsters\/","title":{"rendered":"CRACKDOWN: Police arrests over 600 suspected gangsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Yiep Joseph<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>At least 623 suspected gang members commonly known as niggers, have been arrested in crackdown police on criminal elements in Juba city.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from Central Equatoria state deputy governor, Paulino Lokudu the huge number of suspected gangsters were arrested, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGangs Crackdown Report: 623 niggers arrested in Juba from 4SG Slime, West Coast, ODA, Killers Gangs, Black Devils, and others,\u201d Lokudu said.<\/p>\n<p>This new statistic adds to the already arrested gangsters suspected to have been engaging in criminal activities in Central Equatoria and Juba City in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach Police Spokesperson Maj. Gen. James Monday Enoka\u00a0to confirm the incident were not successful.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown follows multiple reports of a horrific incident involving the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in the Gumbo-Sherikat suburb.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after a graphic video of the assault, which allegedly involved around six to eight suspects, surfaced online, sparking widespread outrage and calls for justice.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media after security meeting on Tuesday, Central Equatoria State Minister of Local Government and law Enforcement Agency, Leon Abe Brown, said the crack down continues.<\/p>\n<p>He condemned criminal acts perpetrated by the gang members, saying the young people harm their own relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Appealing to partners, the minister said the arrested suspects needed to under go reformation but the state government lack the ability to establish an institution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are urging our partners to come in with a way forward to transform these young ones.\u00a0 We need to have reformatory schools; we need to have vocational institutes. So that the young ones when are arrested, we transform them to be useful tomorrow,\u201d the minister noted.<\/p>\n<p>Activists and officials, including the Ministry of Gender, Child, and Social Welfare, have condemned the act and have pushed for stronger laws and enforcement to combat gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan&#8217;s Minister of Gender, Child, and Social Welfare condemned a horrific sexual assault perpetrated against a young lady in Gumbo-Sherikat.<\/p>\n<p>Aya Benjamin Libo Warille expressed disappointment and urged security forces to ensure the culprits of Thursday&#8217;s incident are punished.<\/p>\n<p>A disturbing footage on Thursday, appeared on social media, showing a girl being forced into sexual acts Sherikat neighbourhood by a group of youth who recorded the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yiep Joseph &nbsp; At least 623 suspected gang members commonly known as niggers, have been arrested in crackdown police on criminal elements in Juba city. According to a statement from Central Equatoria state deputy governor, Paulino Lokudu the huge number of suspected gangsters were arrested, on Tuesday. \u201cGangs Crackdown<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/crackdown-police-arrests-over-600-suspected-gangsters\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37125","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\/2025\/07\/Some-of-the-youth-arrested-by-police-in-2024-Juba-Police-on-criminal-gangs-suspicion.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37125","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37127,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37125\/revisions\/37127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}