The office of South Sudan’s First Vice President Taban Deng Gai on Wednesday denied security guards beat up Tinna Aring Madut on Saturday.
Tinna Aring, a young South Sudanese lady, said that she was dragged out of her car and beaten up by security guards of Taban Deng Gai because was driving with the lights on when she was stopped after approaching the guards’ station point.
Gai's office today issued a press release in response to reports that the lady was abused and beaten up by security personnel.
Taban Deng’s spokesman Chuol Lam told Radio Tamazuj that their preliminary report found that Tinna Aring was under the influence of alcohol, claiming the injury on her body inflicted by her trying to jump out of a moving vehicle outside the residence of the First Vice President on Saturday morning.
“According to the investigation, Tinna came around 3:00 am from a night club near the residence of the first vice president, so she was asked by the security to dim the lights but in the process when she was being asked, she became agitated because she was intoxicated,” said Chuol.
“When her voice went up so loudly, many senior officers came out and she was very update and insulting everybody, she was saying this is not Pagak and so and so forth. And later on, she pleaded and said she was going home, but when she was being questioned, she stepped out of the car without putting the car in park, so she fell down and hurt herself,” Chuol explained.
Chuol claimed that the lady was not touched by the security guards. “She was not beaten up according to our security report. But she returned together with her mother to the residence of the first vice president in the morning around 6:00 am, she was crying and throwing herself on the ground saying if my dad was alive this would not have happened to me,” he said.
Choul asked Tinna to file a lawsuit against the security guards of the First Vice President.” We are ready to handover all the security officers who were on duty on that night for a thorough investigation,” he said.