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Bol Mel associates Joe Lotua and Tim Nderitu detained

Colonel Joe Lotua, a National Security attaché to the Bank of South Sudan, and Tim Nderitu, a Kenyan finance manager of former Vice President Benjamin Bol Mel, are reportedly arrested, Hot in Juba has learned.

Circumstances are unclear, but their arrest seems to follow a government purge of people believed to be Bol Mel’s associates.

Joe, who is a Colonel in the National Security Service, was picked up on Saturday at his residence by MI officers and later transferred to the Blue House. Tim was reportedly picked soon after the removal of Bol Mel.

Former VP Bol Mel is currently placed under house arrest at his Jebel house. Security forces have reportedly looted his house, including cars and other belongings, when he was being placed under house arrest.