Lakes State Youths Urged To Desist From Idleness The GOSS Minister for Youth, Sports and Recreation, Hon. Makuac Teng Yauk has encouraged Lakes State youths to work hard and desist from cattle raids as he visited the State to lay down a hostel building foundation together with the Governor.14 June 2011 Hon. Makuac Teng (raising a walk-stick) among other Lakes State Government officials [©Gurtong]By Manyang Mayom RUMBEK, 13th June, 2011 [Gurtong] - The GOSS Minister for Youth, Sports and Recreation, Hon. Makuac Teng Yauk has encouraged Lakes State youths to work hard and desist from cattle raids as he visited the State to lay down a hostel building foundation together with the Governor.
Lakes State Governor Chol Tong Mayay together with various youth organizations and folklore teams including boy scouts and girls guides in Rumbek turnout to welcome the Minister late last week. While addressing heads from different youth associations in Rumbek, Teny donated 12,000 SDG to support the associations’ activities across Lakes State Counties including Girl guides and Boy Scout. The Youth Minister reminded Lakes State youths that South Sudan will soon be a Republic and for that to happen they had to be united in their efforts. “I have heard that there are some small clashes amongst you and that is not good. We should be preparing for our new nation instead of fighting.” Teny said. Lakes State Governor, Chol Tong Mayay emphasized on insecurity in the Counties. He reaffirmed that insecurity is in various Counties of Lakes State was caused by cattle raids as well revenge killings. Teny criticized their idleness and encouraged them to work instead of cattle raids and rampant revenge killings that are creating ethnic tensions in the State. “The problem is that our youths are only attracted to white collar jobs. There are foreigners working in this State, they perform even manual work that can be done by you. Don’t blame the government tomorrow for allowing foreigners to have these opportunities because you don’t want to work today.” “Our people in Juba play domino in the morning and then dress well in the evening then they expect to get food for free. There are people who start their day by drinking tea and then to beer and in turn mess a lot of things when they report at work, this must be stopped.” He stressed. The Lakes State Minister for Information and Communication, Marik Nanga Marik appreciated the offer made by the GOSS Minister in support of youth activities in the State. Mr. Nanga pledged that his ministry at State level will also work hard to improve life skills for youths in order to embrace peace and harmony among warring communities of Lakes State. The contracted engineering company, Pureland Engineer Co-ltd affirmed to the dignitaries that the construction of Rumbek Youth Hostel would only take six months. However, Engineer Atem Tul Atem warned that with slow payment from the government the duration for completion would be longer. Posted in: Home -- 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.
