Payinjiar, Unity State county commissioner appeals for humanitarian food aid assistance Article Comments (3) Email PrintSave --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich March 8, 2011 (BENTIU) - Payinjiar commissioner, Peter Gai Jaok has said that his county is much affected by hunger due to poor food production last year. Jaok added that, he extended an appeal to the humanitarian food aid agencies to come and deliver assistance to citizens in the county. Peter Gai Jaok Payinjair Commissioner speaking in Bentiu, Unity state, South Sudan (ST) Jaok told Sudan Tribune, yesterday, while visiting the state capital Bentiu, that his county is facing challenges of food security and water services. He added that about 1,318 households (5,613 individuals) have been reoccupied / established in Payinjiar county during and after the south Sudan referendum. He further said that the situation for returnees has become a big challenge since then some do not have the power to set up the foundations for their new local houses or tukuls. Jaok underscored that there is a need for assistance for these returnees in terms of food provision, saying that they had already allocated some land to the returnees in Payinjiar but what remains to be the biggest priority is food. "Payinjiar county is the last county of Unity state in terms of the development of infrastructure, especially road networks and communication facilitation in the whole of state”, he said. Jaok added that due to the poor road system, traders are disinclined to carryout business in the area. He promised to deal with the conditions that hamper Payinjiar. Joak added that "what remains now in the South Sudan is how to improve security issues and the challenges of a new nation". He said that his call to these food agencies is to tackle the situation of returnees before it become worse throughout the county. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
