Jonglei: Minister visits Saudi Arabia for funds as road construction continues
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By John Actually
March 23, 2011 (BOR) - The minister of physical infrastructure in
Jonglei state, Peter Manawe Peter Gatkuoth, travelled to Saudi Arabia
on Monday to pitch or funding of road construction, agriculture,
education and health projects worth 48.5 million dollars from the
Saudi Arabia based Islamic Development Bank (IDB).
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Jonglei state minister for infrastructure Peter Manawe (left) and
Rhino Star Manager Bol Ajuong Kuol (right) standing on the new road at
Carakou. March 18, 2011 (ST)
The minister, who also visited Saudi Arabia in January this year said
before he left that he was being sent as a delegated by the state
government to present the projects to the IDB to be funded after
approval by state authorities.
According to Manawe, the road constructions projects in the proposal
are worth 32 million dollars and other projects on agriculture, health
and education amount to 16.5 million dollars.
Manawe, who holds the office under the ticket of National Congress
Party (NCP), the ruling party in the mainly muslim north Sudan, said
the state government has a plan to build new state civil hospital, new
schools and support local agricultural production besides roads
construction.
Sudan’s South where people mainly believe in Christianity and local
African beliefs, is due to become independent in July after a
referendum held as part of a 2005 peace agreement. Decades of war have
left the region severely underdeveloped.
Jonglei has a very poor road network. Many roads become impassible
during the rainy season that starts in May each year.
A south Sudanese roads construction company, Rhino Stars Roads
Construction Compan,y based in Juba, was contracted by the Multi-Donor
Trust Funds (MDTF) to build a road from Bor to Mathiang in Baidit
Payam to ease transportation between Bor and other counties in
northern Jonglei.
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Rhino Star Manger, Bol Ajuong, (left) with Minister of Physical
infrastructure, Manawe Peter Gatkuoth (right) testing the soil used by
Rhino Stars Company at Carakou. March 18, 2011 (ST)
In a visit on March 18 to the site where Rhino Stars Construction
Company is working, Manawe said the state government appreciated the
company for the work that had been done, saying the Jonglei will
continue to work with indigenous companies to improve the poor
standard of roads in the country .
Rhino Stars manager, Bol Ajuong Kuol, told Sudan Tribune that his
company was given 30 km from Bor to Mathiang, saying the company is
expected to finish the remaining 15 km in five weeks.
Jonglei signed a contract with Eyat Roads Construction Company to
elevate the 28 km road that connect Bor town to Makuach Payam
[district]. Eyat Company, which promised to finish the road before the
end of April, begun working on it March 18, from Bor main roundabout
heading to Makuach.
Eyat Company is a Sudanese Roads Construction Company based in
Khartoum and was formed in 2004.
Minister also said his ministry is now opening up new roads within Bor
in areas that were not surveyed in preparation to make them ready to
be allotted to local people.
Manawe said 700 people were displaced by roads adding that his office
will give at least 100 plots to them with a maximum family size of 8
people per plot.
He also said his office has adopted a computerized system of
controlling land allotment, asserting that personal details including
finger prints and pictures will be recorded in the system to avoid
land grabbing, double plots and false clams.
“We have now got a computerized system to register those who took
plots officially with details to avoid false clams”, Manawe said.
(ST)
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