AAC SEEK FURTHER INVESTIGATION INTO ON SOWORE IN EKITI. (PHOTO).

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 AAC SEEK FURTHER INVESTIGATION INTO ON SOWORE IN EKITI The African Action Congress, AAC, has called for further investigation into the reported attack on Omoyele Sowore and other party members in Ekiti State, despite the arrest of eleven suspects. In a statement by its national publicity secretary, Rex Elanu, the AAC says new video footage has emerged which it believes could help identify more persons involved in the incident. The party has expressed concern over the handling of CCTV recordings from the restaurant where the incident occurred, and alleges that some stolen phones were traced to the governor's lodge in Ekiti State. It is seeking an independent investigation into these claims, the handling of recovered items and the circumstances surrounding the incident. The AAC has also called for the arrest and prosecution of any other persons found to have been involved, and demanded an investigation into the conduct of any security officers who may have acted unprofessionally.

SOUTH SUDAN ACTIVIST JAILED IN US FOR ATTEMPTING TO EXPORT ARMS FOR COUP. (PHOTO).


 South Sudan activist jailed in US for attempting to export arms for coup


A South Sudanese activist living in exile in the United States has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for attempting to traffic military-grade weapons to his country in order to carry out a coup, US authorities announced.


Peter Biar Ajak, a government critic and Harvard-educated economist who has worked for the World Bank, was arrested in March 2024 along with Abraham Chol Keech, a South Sudanese national who had become a US citizen.


Ajak had lived in the United States since 2020, having sought asylum after accusing South Sudanese President Salva Kiir of trying to have him killed.


Both defendants pleaded guilty to violating laws controlling the export of arms and military equipment, the US Department of Justice said in a statement, Reuters reported.


A federal court in Arizona sentenced Ajak to 46 months in prison. Keech was sentenced in December to 41 months in prison.


‘Install himself’


"From a suburb of our nation's capital, Ajak conspired to export US weaponry to South Sudan, where he planned to lead a coup and install himself in power," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg.


Between February 2023 and February 2024, the two men "amassed a $4-million arsenal of military-grade weapons," including Stinger missiles, grenade launchers and more than a thousand machine guns and rifles, the statement said.


They were arrested after a year of negotiations with people they believed to be potential suppliers, but who were in fact undercover US federal agents.


Ajak, a prominent South Sudanese activist, had been arrested in his home country in July 2018 for calling on Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar to step down and make way for new leaders, after a civil war that left 400,000 people dead.


Sentenced to two years in prison for "espionage," he was pardoned in January 2020 by Kiir.

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