South Sudan returnees continue to arrive in Lakes state
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July 14, 2011 (JUBA) – The government of Lakes state is continuing to
receive large numbers of returnees from Khartoum through Shambe port,
as South Sudan return to the South after its independence on July 9.
Some nine barges with returnees arrived at Shambe port on the eve of
South Sudan’s independence on Saturday and the returnees aboard are
yet to be transported to a way station at Nyang in Yirol East County
before their resettlement in various designated places in various
counties of Lakes State.
The Yirol West County Deputy Secretary of South Sudan Relief and
Rehabilitation Commission (SSRRC) Gabriel Anok, said that the process
for registering returnees started on Wednesday.
Yirol East County commissioner Bulen Bol Achinbai has offered two
vehicles to facilitate the returnees’ travel to way station in Yirol
East County. He also added that the findings of the enumerators will
be forwarded to SSRRC state headquarters in Rumbek for subsequent
action in liaison with International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Anok appealed to the relevant authorities, including the local
communities, to receive the returnees and offer them any help
possible, describing them as “our people”.
The status of South Sudanese still in North Sudan and the Northerners
residing in South Sudan has yet to be agreed on between the National
Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM)
as part of post-secession arrangements.
Sudanese cabinet in Khartoum last week approved changes to the
immigration law which would automatically strip all South Sudanese of
their citizenship. All Southern employees in the government, civil
service, public services and military have had their employment
terminated.
Newly independent South Sudan, however, have said that Northerners may
apply for citizenship. Both countries have agreed to give people nine
months to apply for citizenship from July 9 when the South officially
seceded.
The basis on which residency or citizenship would be granted has not
been clarified.
South Sudan separated from the North after a referendum in January saw
a 98 percent vote for partition. Many South Sudanese returned before
the vote not trusting that their ballots would be counted correctly in
the North.
After a surge of activity by the SPLM to return Southerners before the
vote now many are stuck in Khartoum and other parts of North Sudan are
struggling to find means to return to the South.
(ST)
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