A secondary school teacher was shot and killed in what authorities described as a revenge attack in Cueibet County of South Sudan’s Lakes State on Tuesday.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Wednesday, Cueibet County Executive Director Peter Chol Cindut said Mr. Zeolot Akolde Majur, a teacher at Cueibet Secondary School, was shot while riding on a motorbike in Cueibet heading toward Agangial village.
According to the executive director, Zeolot was rushed to Rumbek State Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries yesterday.
“The situation in Cueibet County is calmed and there is no tension,” he said.
The local official pointed out that the late Zeolot was also working at Cueibet County Hospital.
For his part, Cueibet Police Chief Inspector Emmanuel Manyang said the organized forces were pursuing the suspected culprit. He disclosed that the teacher’s killing was an act of revenge.
Daniel Laat, a state coordinator for the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), which promotes civil society values, condemned the incident.
“On Tuesday morning, a secondary school teacher and a founder of Agangrial secondary, Mr. Zeolot Akolde Majur, was shot by unknown gunmen on his way from Cueibet County to Agangrial village and he later succumbed to injuries on Wednesday morning at Rumbek State hospital,” Laat said.
The civil society activist emphasized that the ongoing revenge killings in the state are unacceptable and urged security forces to apprehend the perpetrators to face the law.
“CEPO is calling on the national government to rescue the affected communities of Lakes state by empowering the state government to calm down this situation,” he concluded.
Lakes state has been blighted by cattle raiding since South Sudan’s independence in 2011 and continues to be locked in a cycle of inter-clan revenge clashes.