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New details have emerged showing how two daughters of the elusive rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Joseph Kony, were held captive for four months by Wagner Group mercenaries in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Reliable information obtained by Mega Fm indicates that Maisa Amu and Betty Akidi Lagum were captured in March 2024 from Sam Ouandja, a town in northeastern CAR near the Sudan border.
They were reportedly held hostage in the capital, Bangui, from March to July.
The duo, by the time of their capture, had reportedly defected from their father’s base and were seeking to surrender to the Central African Republic Government.
This was shortly after Kony’s wife Judith Acan and son Pope Kony also defected on March 19 2024.
The officer, who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the matter, told Mega Fm that the Russian mercenaries held onto the two children for months, hoping to lure out Kony.
He suspected the mercenaries were after the US$5 million bounty, knowing that the children were linked to Kony.
Since 2013, the US Department of State has been offering a US$ 5-million bounty for any information leading to the arrest of Kony. According to him, the mercenaries released the captives after realizing they weren’t going to gain anything.
