A group of Sudanese traders who left South Sudan after its 2011 independence called on the government to return their properties that were stolen by members of the ruling party SPLM including the vice president James Wani Igga.

Bushra Mohammed Abdu Alhai, a representative of the traders, told Radio Tamazuj that he was working in Kaya since 1978 with others.

He said his properties were seized by leaders from the ruling party in Central Equatoria including Wani. Bushra said Wani took the house of a Sudanese trader called Al-Safi Mohammed Mustafa in Yei and built a hotel in the place of the house called Tokyo Hotel.

Bushra said they filed a court case over the properties taken by the SPLM party members.

“The court stood with us, and we won the case, but there is no implementation," he said. "They have rejected to return all our properties."

He pointed that thethey have won the case but it was not implemented until now, calling on the government to intervene to return their properties.

Bushra said they contacted officials in South Sudan through the Sudanese embassy in Juba before opening the case through lawyer Kur Lual.