By Jacob Onuha Nelson<\/p>\n
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Unity State government has condemned road ambush of a commercial boat, demanding arrest of the perpetrators.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The ambush of a commercial boat on Friday, last week, resulted in the death of four people, while six remain missing.<\/p>\n Carrying a huge number of traders, the boat was reportedly ambushed while on its way from Unity state to Juba.<\/p>\n Unity State Minister of Information, Gatwech Bipal Both, in statement urged neighbouring Lakes State government to apprehend the perpetrators.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Unity state government condemned crimes committed by youths believed to be from Lake State. Revenge tendencies ought to stop,\u201d Bipal said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cUnity state government calls upon the Lake State leadership to apprehend the criminals and serve justice so that such atrocities will not happen again in the future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The government and the people of Unity State have conveyed heartfelt condolences messages to the families for the soul losses at Shambek Port in Lake State.<\/p>\n The state government reiterated its commitment to dialogue and preventing violence within and with the neighbouring states and areas.<\/p>\n \u201cUnity State remains open to constructive intergovernmental dialogue, reconciliation, and collaboration with Lake State to address underlying concerns and prevent future conflict in the region,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The authority appealed to all families of the deceased to refrain and remain calm for the law to take its course without revenge tendencies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jacob Onuha Nelson Unity State government has condemned road ambush of a commercial boat, demanding arrest of the perpetrators. The ambush of a commercial boat on Friday, last week, resulted in the death of four people, while six remain missing. Carrying a huge number of traders, the boat[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37178","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\/Traders-traveling-along-riverine-using-a-boat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178","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=37178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37180,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178\/revisions\/37180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}