The Council of Minister of Eastern Equatoria State decided today to form a taskforce to locate the public prosecutor John Wani Ladu, who has been missing for about two weeks.

John Wani hails from Lokaya, a small village in Central Equatoria, but he has been serving as a public prosecutor in Eastern Equatoria.

The state information minister Clement Laku Chichim today told Radio Tamazuj that the state Council of Ministers has decided to form a committee from the organized forces together with community representatives in order to move on the ground to search for him.  

“Today, the government in the Council Ministers meeting has decided that a committee of some organized forces and other forces together with the community will have to move to the ground to search for him up to where the car was found,” he said.

When the prosecutor last left home in Torit he was driving a Land Cruiser hardtop vehicle, which was found parked along the road at Loming village on Loming-Imehejek road without any trace of Wani.

Chichim added that community members in that area had already tried to locate the prosecutor but were so far unsuccessful: “So far up to now we have not found any information about him. The community tried their level best looking for him up to some bushes, mountain, but they did not got any information.”

Security officers reportedly during an inconclusive search. also found a trail of footmarks. They say that they are not sure whether the prosecutor is alive or dead.

Related:

EES Public Prosecutor missing: colleagues concerned (Gurtong, 22 July)