22/05/2026
๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐: ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง. ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐ญ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฅ, ๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ง, ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐๐ฎ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ (๐๐), ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐.๐. ๐๐ซ. ๐๐ข๐๐ค ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐/๐ (๐๐) ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ฌ, ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ก ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ, ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ญ ๐
๐ซ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐๐ฎ๐๐.
Today, Hon. Puot Kang resumed his testimony from previous sessions.He highlighted inconsistencies in the prosecutionโs case and challenged the credibility of their so-called digital forensic expert. Furthermore, he identified several regime leaders responsible for the Nasir incident, the SPLM/A (IO) unlawful arrests, and the subsequent ongoing war in the country.
Your lordships,
The expert witness also claimed that I have accepted a voice call from Brig. Gen. Timothy Bile Nyang on 26/02/2025 which lasted for about 42 seconds. Your Lordships, I am not aware of this alleged call. And the expert did not tell the court what was discussed in that 42 seconds.
On page 10 of my individual report, a conversation was presented by the expert witness from paragraphs 226โ232. Your Lordships, I know that I never had such a conversation with Brig. Gen. Okdor Chuol, and if Brig. Gen. Okdor Chuol sent me a message of that nature, then I have not read it, nor have I seen it. This can be confirmed from the phone where the expert witness claimed that he (Brig. Gen. Okdor) sent me a message, but I did not respond to his message, nor did I answer his two missed calls.
Your Lordships,
I am a cousin with Brig. Gen. Okdor Chuol, and I believe that it is the reason why the prosecution and their witnesses kept mentioning his name when it comes to me or Mam Pal (Accused No. 2) because the three of us are from one family. As members of one family, we could sometimes discuss family matters which have nothing to do with politics and the rest of South Sudan.
Your Lordships,
I unequivocally state that I did not, in any manner whatsoever, facilitate, participate in, finance, or otherwise take part in any alleged purchase or distribution of arms and ammunition.
Your Lordships,
Allow me to also mention some of the obvious contradictions from the expert witness. On 30/01/2026, Session No. 45, during examinationโinโchief, Question No. 13, part of his answer was that: โI also booked a flight and on 28/08/2025, I came to Juba to officially hand over my final report.โ Again on 02/02/2026, Session No. 46, during examinationโinโchief, Question No. 1, the witness was asked what happened after he brought the report and the items. His answer was that: โOn 28/08/2025, I came to Juba to bring the final report. I handed over the final report with all its attachments which were before the court to the investigative officer who was together with the investigation committee and thereafter, my statement was taken and signed by both of us.โ I also wanted to remind this honorable court that the expert witness mentioned that he was advised by the prosecution to go back to South Africa for authentication of the documents on 28/08/2025.
On 24/04/2026, Session No. 71, during the examination of the expert witness by the court, Question No. 4 from Justice Stephen, he asked the expert as to when he submitted his final reports. His answer was that he submitted his final report on 25/08/2025. Also during the examinationโinโchief on 06/10/2025, Session No. 7, the investigator tendered prosecution document No. 9 (H) that said โForwarding digital forensic report of Case No. 1533, dated 26/08/2025, to Juba.โ Now, Your Lordships, this is also another date of the submission of the report by the expert witness according to the investigator.
These contradictions of dates indicate the fact that the report was either prepared by the National Security Services and the prosecution in Juba, and then brought the soโcalled expert to reโstamp their illโintended work or, if at all, there was work done by the expert, it was either rejected or infiltrated by the National Security Services and the prosecution, and that is why yourLordship, the individual report has no stamp or signature โ perhaps because the expert witness did not want to claim ownership of that report when he was well aware that what was there was not his work. This can be confirmed from his response to the questions during crossโexamination by the defense.
On 11/03/2026, Session No. 59, during crossโexamination, Question No. 1, where he was asked how he considered the 7 individual reports as an integral part of the main report when they are neither signed nor stamped. His answer was that the individual reports were stamped at the front page and they are not signed or tampered with. During crossโexamination, Question No. 2, when asked about the stamp, he said it was at the back of the front page.
Your Lordships,
The individual reports that are before us have no stamp neither on the front page nor at the back of the front page, unless the report given to the defense is a different one. Now I am asking myself, is it alright to have a report that is neither signed nor stamped in a case that seeks the life of the accused person? In this case your Lordship, some of the accusations levied against us carry death sentence or life imprisonment. So, your Lordship, some will conclude that this report was only meant to mislead the court.
On the 15/10/2025 session No. 10, when the lead investigator tendered my phone as an exhibit before this honorable court, learned Advocate Ajo Ohisa said, โthe phone for the first accused is not just a phone but a tool for committing a crime.โ He also said in one of the court sessions that we should be given prison uniform or chains.
Your Lordships,
I would like to inform this honorable court that my phone is not a tool for committing a crime but rather a tool for preaching peace and stability in this country. It is this phone that I used to coordinate the implementation of the Agreement that the government and the prosecution seek to abrogate. And if it is about the alleged extracted messages, then it is the National Security Service and the prosecution who obtained my phone by force, got the passwords through intimidation, and used it to generate their own messages, unless it is they who used it as a tool for committing a crime.
Your Lordships,
I would also like to inform this honorable court that we have undergone enough humiliation that the system could think of including but not limited tous being referred to as dogs. Your Lordship, the car that you see standing outside here that is used to bring us to this honorable court has someone written inside โ โseven dogs jebuโ. We raised this to the former DG of National Security Services when he came to visit, so he formed a committee and it was confirmed, and it is the seven of us with the exception of Dr. Riek Machar who normally travelled by this car. The writing is still present till now.
Your Lordships,
As we are all aware that the inhuman treatment that we have endured, as I stated earlier, happened as a result of the famous National Security Act being put to use, particularly section 13 of the Act 2014 as Amended. As long as nothing is done about it more will continue to be humiliated.
Your Lordships,
I respectfully submit that my phones and passwords were forcefully taken, and that the videos, the audios if any, the images and the messages presented before this honorable court by the expert witness bear no connection to me nor can it be established that they have been extracted from my phone. No credible evidentiary foundation has been laid to link those materials to my device, to my knowledge or to any act attributable to me. As such they remain extraneous, unverified and incapable of sustaining any probative value against me. These are fabrications from the National Security Services that kept our phones from the time of our arrest until the time they were handed over to the claimed expert on 25/06/2025 according to the expert, the prosecution and their expert witness.
Your Lordships,
This can be confirmed from the alleged conversation between Mam Pal Duor and John P K whose phones were with the expert witness but the messages therein are not the same with the exception of paragraph 207โ219 in my individual report, but also the date and the time are not the same. Example: the last message on my report was sent by me on 3/3/2025 at 3:41 pm while in Mam Pal Duor report the last message was sent by him on 3/3/2025 at 11:36 am.
Your Lordships, during the examination of the investigator by this honorable special court, he was asked why he charged the eight of us under the same sections of the law, or with the same offences. His response was that the eight accused before this honorable special court cooperated as per section (48) of the Penal Code Act, 2008, while commissioning the cited offences.
Your Lordships, I would like to inform this honorable special court that we the eight (8) accused before this honorable court or the twentyโone (21) of ushave never agreed to attack the SSPDF garrison in Nasir or any other SSPDF garrison because we are for peace and we stand by it. We have never met physically or virtually via phone to discuss any agenda that is against the implementation orviolation of the agreement and that is why the prosecution and their witnesses failed to bring any documentary evidence (video, audio, pictures of a meeting or minutes of meetings) to prove that, really, we have cooperated or planned to attack the garrison in Nasir.
Your Lordships, itโs important to inform this honorable special court and the people of South Sudan that the Nasir incident, our arrest and the subsequent war that is going on in South Sudan is squarely a responsibility of our accusers โ especially Dr. Benjamin Bol Mel, the former Vice President, Hon. Dr. Martin Elia Lomoro, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Hon. Chol Thon Balok, Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, Hon. Michael Makuei Lueth, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs and Gen. Paul Nang Majok, former CDF of the SSPDF, among many others. These individuals pushed for the deployment of Non-Unified Forces to Nasir instead of the deployment of the necessary Unified Forces as agreed by the Joint Defense Board (JDB). They also pushed for the bombardment of civilian areas in Nyirol, Ulang, and Nasir counties in February 2025. They also pushed for the abrogation of the R-ARCSS by arresting us, their partners to the R-ARCSS, and the subsequent trial.
They made inflammatory statements against the R-ARCSS, the SPLM/A-IO, those of us arrested, and the Nuer community at large when Dr. Martin Elia and Michael Makuei went on air and categorized the Nuer community as a hostile community. These statements alone, your lordship, justify the reason why the 21 of us, or the eight accused sitting before you, are all from the Nuer community, when both the membership and the leadership of the SPLM/A-IO are made up of all South Sudanese. As if targeting us, the individuals before you, is not enough, they did not stop at only targeting those of us who are sitting here; they went ahead and destroyed what they perceive as Nuer land and killed anything they could find on their way. This can be confirmed by the statement of Gen. Johnson Olony in Jonglei, when he said they will kill anything they find on their way including chicken, and indeed they have done it. These statements, your lordship, are in the public domain for anyone to peruse.
Your lordships, I would like to affirm that if being a Nuer is a crime, then we are all Nuer and we should be ready to face whatever comes with it.
Your Lordships, all the allegations leveled against me and my colleagues by the prosecution and their witnesses are not supported by evidence, including that of the complainant, which is the NationalSecurity Service; they are mere claims, and this is why the prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that I and my colleagues have committed any offense.
Your Lordships, I am before this honorable court not because I have committed any of the cited offenses, but I am here because I have refused to be a tool for destruction and betrayal of the community that I come from, my party (SPLM/A-IO), and of my leader, Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon. As such, my case and that of my other colleagues are highly political in nature, and they have nothing to do with the law. The following are proofs of this point:
To be continuedโฆ
The sham trial was adjourned to Monday, May 25, 2026, when Hon. Puot Kang is expected to continue his testimony.
The SPLM/A (IO) continues to vigorously reject the so-called "Special Court", considering it a tool to abrogate the Revitalized Agreement and target H.E. Dr. Riek Machar and the SPLM/A (IO) through a perceived political witch-hunt. The movement reiterated its demands for the immediate and unconditional release of H.E. Dr. Riek Machar and all SPLM/A (IO) detainees.
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