Major General Elia Costa, Police Commissioner in Jonglei State - Courtesy

Police in Bor town have arrested two youths for allegedly looting relief food from a World Food Program vehicle on Tuesday night, May 23, 2023.

According to General Elia Costa, a group of armed youth broke into a WFP warehouse in Bor town and looted a vehicle packed with sorghum.

“Yesterday [Tuesday, May 23, 2023] at around 7 pm, a group of armed youth came and attacked the vehicle of the World Food Program in the warehouse, the vehicles carrying the food,” Gen. Costa narrated to Eye Radio.

Costa says the suspects stole about 148 bags of sorghum from the car.

The police commissioner says they have arrested two of the culprits, and others are on the run.

“They came and attacked and looted some food items from there and ran away. We set our forces there and they arrested some of them, others ran away. Now, we arrested two,” he said.

This is not the first time World food program food has been looted in the state.

In February, a WFP vehicle transporting relief food broke down between Bor and Anyidi town when some unidentified people looted some food items.

The amount of food looted was undetermined, but about 38 bags were recovered in the nearby bushes and handed to the World Food Program.