Nilepet official arrested for recording on-duty colleagues

JUBA – An official of the state-run oil company, Nile Petroleum Corporation, has been arrested by Juba police this afternoon for illegally recording on-duty colleagues in favor of his boss and the National Security Service, two sources said.

Angok Lual Angok, an assistant director and a auditor at the Nilepet, was arrested this afternoon in Juba after a number of people complained to the police that they have been dismissed from their job at the state oil firm due to unlawful recordings by him.

“Angok Lual has been arrested this afternoon by the South Sudan police service. He has been doing illegal activities because he use to record on-duty colleagues and give them to his Chol Deng which always leads to enmity and firing at last,” one source at Nilepet told Sudans Post this afternoon from Juba.

According to the senior Nilepet official, Lual was at one point involved in a standoff with an army general who he recorded.

The official said Angok later took that recording to the National Security Service who later on summoned the unnamed army general.

“This is not the first time. In 2019, Angok recorded a phone call between him and an army general and discussed with him the issue of lack of food supply to the soldiers in Northern Bahr el Ghazal at the time,” he said.

“After their call, their phone recording was given to the NSS and the NSS later summoned the general headquarters of the NSS and was questioned. So, it is not surprising to see him today going to jail,”  the official added.

Another source with direct knowledge told Sudans Post separately that Angok was sued by Deng Akoon whom he wiretapped and was later on dismissed over that recording.