General Paul Malong Awan has accepted to return from Yirol to Juba on Thursday today, the Minister of Information in Eastern Lakes has said.

General Paul Malong was relieved in a presidential decree broadcast on SSBC TV on Tuesday evening.

The Minister of Information, Majak Makur Majak told Eye Radio that General Malong left Juba and arrived in Eastern Lakes on Wednesday.

Mr. Majak said Gen. Malong went to the office of the governor and agreed to return to Juba.

“As from now, we are establishing contact with the headquarters especially the presidency. The governor is in contact so that the government sends a plane so that he can be flown back to Juba,” Mr. Majak said.

Mr. Majak says General Malong’s arrival initially caused panic, but calm has now returned.

“The security situation is normal, it’s just calm. It was actually threatened by the arrival of the former chief of staff general Paul Malong. We received him in our state. He was received by the Governor of Eastern Lakes and we had a meeting with him. We also informed him that your movement here has caused unnecessary allegations and we want you to go back to Juba as per the call of the President,” said Majak.

Mr. Majak said General Malong arrived in Yirol with 20 bodyguards on Wednesday.