Two Kenyan medical aid workers based in South Sudan are currently being detained by South Sudanese authorities after engaging in a physical fight aboard a flight bound for the country’s Aweil state last weekend.
The pair, 30-year-old Nicholas Wamwangi and his counterpart Kelvin Kimani,29, were passengers on a Kush Airline plane that departed Juba International Airport when the bizarre incident occurred on March 12, 2022.
Both of them are said to be currently employed at the Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), a humanitarian organization based in Oslo, Norway.
Wamwangi and Kimani, who reports say were intoxicated at the time, got physical just moments after the plane left Juba and kept on confronting each other throughout the entire flight before they were arrested when the aircraft touched down at Aweil airstrip.
They similarly fought in the presence of police who had restrained them. The pair’s cases have since been forwarded to Interpol for further investigations.
“The two aid workers, believed to be gynaecologists, were arrested on Saturday last week,” said Captain Guot Guot Akol, the police spokesperson in Northern Bahr El Ghazal told the Nation.
“We are yet to hear from the organisation that sent them. But we have processed their documents and presented them to Interpol, which will now investigate the case in collaboration with our Immigration Department,” said Captain Akol.
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