Two senior army officers convicted last year of severing the limbs of a 19-year-old man in the Ruweng Administrative Area have fled from Pariang jail, according to Ruweng’s minister of communications.
Bridger General Alek Yai Guen and Major Monykoang Miakol, both SPLA-IO generals, were sentenced to seven years in prison.
General Alek Yai Guen ordered Major Miakol to arrest Atem Mayiik Minyiel in connection with a lost phone.
Minyiel then locked the adolescent in a container, tormented him overnight, and severed his arms.
In addition to the prison sentences, the two generals were fined 24 cows in compensation to the victim.
The local Information Minister, Martin Bith Ngor, said in a Juba-based media company published viewed by NCMP that the inmates vanished from the Pariang Prisons on Saturday.
He said that the authorities are looking into what transpired.
“I heard that they were freed, but I’m not sure how or what method they used to release them, so we’re looking into how those persons were released,” Bith revealed in a publication obtained by NCMP.
“Recompense has been paid, 24 cows have been paid as compensation for the missing arms.” They received a seven-year prison term.”
Ngor said that he had yet to meet with the prison’s leadership to get an account of the occurrence.
