The bodies of two Ugandan businessmen killed on Wednesday have been discovered this afternoon about 100kms outside the South Sudan capital, Juba.
Mayende Kamaadi and Ahemed Ssebagala were clobbered to death by their armed captors, said a colleague who escaped and reported their murder to the Ugandan community leadership.
The group was ambushed and kidnapped last Sunday evening outside the Ugandan-South Sudan border by armed people believed to be rebels.
The kidnappers demanded ransom of about Shs22m ($6,000) for each captive to be released but kept increasing the amount, according to authorities.
“We have recovered the bodies today,” one of the community leaders confirmed before adding that four other Ugandans who are missing were kidnapped.
Coincidentally, by the time the search operation for the bodies was being conducted, the transitional government of Sudan and 13 rebel factions were signing a final peace agreement in Juba. Advertisement
The agreement, which was brokered by South Sudan president Salva Kiir following continued unrest in Khartoum since the ouster of strongman Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, was witnessed by Mr Kiir, South Sudan Vice President Dr Riek Machar, Somalia’s Ismail Guelleh, Chad’s Idriss Deby, Sudan President Abdel Fatah al-Burhan, Sudan Prime minister and chairperson of Igad, Dr Abdallah Hamdok, and Uganda’s Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, among other dignitaries.
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