South Sudan 71-year-old president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, was caught on tape wetting his trousers, a highly embarrassing incident for the North African nation as the video of him as he pees and wets himself now viral
It happened on December 13 of last year, when he was on his way to dedicate a newly built road. It was reported that he had been caught urinating in his pants during the playing of the national anthem.
South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit pees in pants as he wets himself, video urinating goes viral
The event was captured on film and has since spread like wildfire over social media. It is important to note that Salva Kiir Mayardit has served as President of South Sudan since the country’s independence in July 2011. Six journalists from the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation were detained on Tuesday (January 3). Journalists were blamed for spreading the embarrassing video of South Sudan’s president.
El gobierno de Sudán del Sur arresta a al menos 6 periodistas sudaneses que filmaron al presidente, Salva Kiir Mayardit, orinándose en directo en la televisión nacional. pic.twitter.com/WX4HXtLntV
— Wall Street Wolverine (@wallstwolverine) January 7, 2023
Although the video was never broadcast, the effect was still there. Camera operators Mustafa Osman, Joseph Oliver, and Jacob Benjamin, and control room technicians Victor Lado and Joval Tombe and Cherbek Ruben were named.
Meanwhile, the CPJ has demanded that the journalists be released without any conditions. South Sudan has a history, according to Muthoki Mumo, CPJ’s representative for sub-Saharan Africa, of unjustly detaining journalists when their reporting looks to be unfavourable to the current political dispensation in power.
Journalist representative Muthoki Mumo fights for release of SSBC workers
Mumo has called for the immediate and unrestricted release of the six SSBC workers who have been detained and for their safe return to the workplace, where they have been threatened with detention. South Sudan has suffered from political instability, food shortages, natural calamities, and horrific fighting over the course of its history.
Another day, another negative headline about the North African nation.
Who is Sudanese president Salva Kiir Mayardit?
As of South Sudan’s independence on July 9, 2011, this politician, also known by his first name Salva, has served as the country’s president. Between 2005 until 2011, he served as both President of Southern Sudan and First Vice President of Sudan.
After John Garang passed away in 2005, he took over as leader of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). Kiir was born on January 8, 1951, to a family of pastoral Dinka farmers. In the hamlet of Akon, in the Awan-Chan Dinka community in Gogrial County, South Sudan. He was the eighth of nine children (six males and three girls).
His cattle-herding Payum ancestor Kuethpiny Thiik Atem passed away in 2007. There were a total of 16 children born to Atem and his three wives, Awiei Rou Wol, Adut Makuei Piol, and Awien Akoon Deng. Awiei Rou Wol Tong, Kiir’s mother, is a member of the Payii clan and a farmer.
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