The Association of Media Development in South Sudan says late journalist Isaac Vuni, had reported being followed by ‘unknown people’ before he was killed.

His body was found dumped by the road side in Kerepi, a village along the Juba-Nimule highway.

Media reports indicate that his death came three months after he went missing.

His wife was quoted as saying that youth found her husband’s body at the edge of a farm just by the roadside; she did not even know where the body was buried.

The Chairperson of AMDISS, Alfred Taban told Eye Radio confirmed to Eye Radio, the death of Mr. Isaac Vuni.

“The reports of the killings of Isaac Vuni have not been very surprising, because Isaac Vuni did complain once in Juba that he was being followed by some unknown people and that he feared for his life,” Mr Alfred said.

“Around June he was arrested, I don’t know whether you call that ‘kidnapping’ but he was arrested but after sometime he was released, and this time he was taken and then killed,” he explained.

The motive of the killing is still not clear.

Mr Vuni was a writer for the online Sudan Tribune in 2009. We had to leave the country over fears for his life, but returned later.

His death brings to nine the number of journalists killed in South Sudan since 2012.