Kenyan court adjourns two SPLM-IO officials' case until Thursday

NEWS  NAIROBI KENYA  A High Court in Kenya has adjourned its sitting on the case of two South Sudanese opposition officials who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Nairobi last week. Dong Samuel Luak is a prominent lawyer and opposition figure who has spoken out against human rights abuses in South Sudan. Aggrey Idri Izbon is a chairman of the SPLM-IO committee for humanitarian affairs under rebel leader Riek Machar. Speaking to Radio Tamazuj today, Pouk Both Baluang, spokesman of the SPLM-IO in Kenya, said the court decided to adjourn the sitting  until Thursday after the Criminal Investigations Officer Nicholas Kamwende failed to submit a report on the disappearance of the two SPLM-IO officials. He further said all Kenyan mobile phone service providers also failed to provide data on the two missing men’s communications as requested by the high court last week. The opposition official pointed out that the judge also directed the County Criminal Investigations Department to investigate the disappearance and then present a report to the high court on Thursday. Baluang noted that Kenya authorities are still denying knowledge of the disappearance of Dong Samuel and Aggrey Idri. “The chief investigator today has not presented anything important that can lead us to know the whereabouts of Dong and Aggrey,” said Pouk.