By Nakwam Rose<\/p>\n
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Some artists fell victim to the 623 suspected gang members who were arrested in a crackdown on criminal elements in Juba city, Artists\u2019 Union has revealed.<\/strong><\/p>\n No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper<\/em><\/strong> has learnt that celebrities including a rapper and radio presenter, Lord G, a member of South Sudan Artists\u2019 Union, was arrested in the swoop.<\/p>\n Isaac Lumori, aka \u201cMc Lumoex\u201d confirmed the arrest of some artists, adding that the union is following up on their cases.<\/p>\n \u201cSome artists have been taken up by the security agents unknowingly.\u201d Lumori said.<\/p>\n Though Lumori confirmed the arrest of some members of the Artists\u2019 Union, he however, declined to give statistics of ones still in detention and released.<\/p>\n According to Lumori, South Sudan Artists\u2019 Union is still working on effective measures to enable the release of the artist under detention.<\/p>\n He promised to offer information to the public about the matter at appropriate time.<\/p>\n The security operation on errant elements in the city followed a disturbing footage that circulated online involving a 16-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted. The girl was also manhandled by roughly 8 unknown street goons in the Gumbo-Sherikat suburb.<\/p>\n The footage sparked widespread public outrage and calls for justice.<\/p>\n Activists and officials, including the Ministry of Gender, Child, and Social Welfare, condemned the act and demanded for stronger laws and enforcement to combat gender-based violence.<\/p>\n Some of the arrested gang members included those 4SG Slime, West Coast, ODA, Killers Gangs, Black Devils, and others.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Nakwam Rose Some artists fell victim to the 623 suspected gang members who were arrested in a crackdown on criminal elements in Juba city, Artists\u2019 Union has revealed. No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper has learnt that celebrities including a rapper and radio presenter, Lord G, a member of[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37299","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-arrested-gangs.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37299","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=37299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37301,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37299\/revisions\/37301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}