NSS soldiers on a pickup somewhere in South Sudan | File photo

A disagreement between drunken soldiers allegedly claimed a life at Yei-road Checkpoint in Juba on Wednesday.

According to the acting spokesperson of the national police service, the two soldiers – Adam Bol and Simon Johnson – have been deployed at the checkpoint along Yei road since 2018.

While hanging out at a bar Wednesday evening, one of the privates said he would kill the other.

Bridger General James Dak Karlo says it was Johnson who had hinted that he would kill Bol.

“The two fellows are from national security posted at the checkpoint,” Karlo told Eye Radio.

‘They have been there for the last three years handling cases happening in PoCs and also people who are going to and from Yei  as well as people around the market.

“Due to alcohol and drugs, the two fellows had a misunderstanding, a private called Simon Johnson shot his friend Adam Bol.”