South Sudanese activist group Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) has called on security agents to allow family of the ousted governor of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State Joseph Bangasi Bakosoro to visit their son.
CEPO Executive Director Edmund Yakani said that the move by the National Security Service to prevent from the family to see their son is a violation. He stressed that he should be respected because he had served as a governor.
The leading activist further said he met with the presidential advisor on legal affairs, parliamentary committee on security and defense and human rights commission to lobby for Bakosoro’s release.
Dudu Bakosoro, who is the governor’s sister, told Radio Tamazuj recently that she was stopped from visiting her brother. She said Bakasoro’s health condition was deteriorating every day in the custody of the National Security Service (NSS).
Joseph Bakosoro has not been charged with any crime.