Yei authorities destroy seized marijuana; the owner ran
On 8 July 2026 Yei River County authorities destroyed marijuana seized the night before, after the owner dropped it and fled. Commissioner Samuel Henry Malimbo said a local order bans growing marijuana in Yei. No weight was given and no one was named as arrested.
🇸🇸 Yei, Yei River County, Central Equatoria · South Sudan
On Wednesday 8 July 2026, authorities in Yei River County destroyed a quantity of seized marijuana, known locally as bangi.[1][2]County Commissioner Samuel Henry Malimbo said the drugs had been seized the night before: “The owner dropped them and ran away.”[1]No one was named as arrested.[1]
Malimbo said he had passed a local order banning the growing of marijuana in Yei, and that anyone caught growing, selling or distributing it would be arrested and prosecuted.[1]“Any drugs we find in any store or in possession of anyone shall be destroyed,” he said.[1]Police Commissioner Major General Ali Abdullahtif said patrols were still seizing marijuana from people selling, smoking or growing it, and that marijuana and spirit drinks are banned in Central Equatoria State.[1]Community elder Antony Dicko welcomed the destruction and asked leaders to extend the crackdown to all five payams of Yei.[1]
One Citizen Daily and Access Radio, the Yei station, add a detail Radio Tamazuj does not: an unidentified person threw marijuana over the fence of Yei Prison and fled, and the search was still open.[3][2]Neither account gives a weight.[1][3]Juba TV’s report of the same destruction carries no separate figures.[4]
Photos and video
County and police officials in Yei stand behind a sack and an open box of seized marijuana before it was destroyed.Photo details
No weight, sack count or value was published; the outlets call it a quantity, or a large quantity.
Radio Tamazuj quotes the commissioner saying the drugs were seized the previous night and the owner dropped them and ran; it names no arrest. One Citizen Daily and Access Radio instead report that an unidentified person threw marijuana over the Yei Prison fence and fled, with the search still open. The report keeps both accounts and does not treat them as the same fact.
Access Radio dates its article 8 July 2026 and calls the destruction a Wednesday, which matches 8 July; Radio Tamazuj, One Citizen Daily and Juba TV date their reports 10 July and also call the day a Wednesday, which 10 July was not. The event date follows the Wednesday they all name.
The commissioner said he had passed a local order banning the growing of marijuana in Yei, and the police commissioner said marijuana and spirit drinks are banned in Central Equatoria State. Neither outlet quotes the text of either order.
The four photographs are the same shot of officials standing behind one sack and an open box of plant material. They show the seized cannabis displayed, not the burning.
Customs officers at the Esendere border gate in Hakkari stopped a Turkish traveller arriving from Iran and found 49.56 grams of suspected cannabis hidden in his shoe soles. The Yüksekova Chief Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation into the seizure.
Central Equatoria security forces and the Juba City Council raided Suk Sita and Hai Amarat in Juba on 24 February 2026 and seized marijuana known locally as bangi with other illicit drugs. No weights, arrests or charges were reported, and officials warned traffickers they would face the full force of the law.
A Bor court sentenced ten men aged eighteen to twenty-two after police found them smoking bhang during a night patrol. According to the state police commissioner, one received a year in prison, four received six months, and five were fined 50,000 South Sudanese pounds each. Police also arrested a supplier; the report did not state how much cannabis each young man held.
Torit police said they arrested a man and a woman over four sacks of bangi, each reported as 100 kg, transported from Ketire into the town. The spokesperson said the suspects were in custody during the investigation and would be sent to court.
