Kiir to replace national security chief – official
File: South Sudan National Security Service – NSS
JUBA – South Sudan president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, is planning to replace the country’s security chief, officials close to office of the president said Saturday.
One official said the president will name a senior security official who has been on training in Israel since 2013 in place of Akol Koor, the director general of the Internal Security Bureau (ISB) at South Sudan National Security Service (SSNSS).
“The president will name a new director of the internal security bureau. He will dismiss Akol Koor soon and replace him with a general who has been on training in Israel since 2013,” the official said.
The NSS has been criticized by rights groups of human rights violations since the outbreak of the ongoing civil war in the world’s youngest country.
It has been accused of killing several civilians including opposition officials such as Agrey Idri and Dong Samuel Luak, a key civil rights activist, who were both deported to the country from Kenya in 2017 and murdered in Juba in January 2018.