Jonglei to hold urgent inter-tribal peace conference
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July 29, 2011 (BOR) - The interior minister for the newly-independent
Republic of South Sudan, Gier Chuang Aluang, a son of Jonglei, accused
politicians and intellectuals of causing problems at the grass roots
level in Jonglei state at a meeting in Bor on Wednesday.
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participants of the Jonglei consultative meeting in the meeting hall
on 28, July 2011 at South Sudan Hotel in Bor
Insecurity is a major problem in South Sudan especially in Jonglei
which has been blighted by the presence of rebel groups, cattle
rustling and child kidnapping despite a 2005 peace deal, which ended
decades of North-South conflict.
As part of the peace deal South Sudan became independent on July 9
after a referendum in January.
"We need to be united. Don’t just say unity, unity and as soon we
disperse we say different issues, it doesn’t work," said Gier who was
speaking at a two day consultative meeting held in Bor, which resolved
to hold an urgent peace conference between the tribes of Jonglei.
"What I have seen, our people at the grass root are very good and very
clean, but it us who are not clean. It will be good if I can ask our
reverends and all the religious leaders in the state to pray and
neutralise those with evil thinking so that we move ahead."
In Jonglei, South Sudan’s largest state, tribal clashes over cattle
raiding and child abduction have marred relations between the Dinka,
Nuer and Murle for several years.
The meeting, which was well attended by local MPs as well as their
counterparts based in South Sudan’s capital Juba, was aimed at
identifying and addressing Jonglei’s challenges.
During his opening speech, the state governor, Kuol Manyang who
chaired the meeting outlined what had been achieved since the 2005
North-South peace deal, which brought the Sudan People’s Liberation
Movement (SPLM) to power in the South.
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Jonglei State governor Kuol Manyang addressing the gathering with his
opening remarks to consultative meeting in Bor. July 27, 2011 (ST)
Manyang said that the state had made it possible to survey and
constructs new roads within the capital, installed a public power
station, a clean urban water supply, trained batches of state police
and renovated the state civil hospital among others things.
He also highlighted the state’s security challenges which he said were
caused by rebel groups and cattle rustlers, a poor road network and
underdevelopment.
Four groups of MPs discussed governance, security, service delivery
and economic development and came up with several resolutions with a
limited time frame for implementation.
The resolutions were put forward during a meeting of state and
national level representatives an intensive consultative meeting that
started on Wednesday July 27, and ended Thursday, July 28.
According to the resolutions read by Deputy Governor, Hussein Maar
Nyuot, the meeting “pledged to do the utmost to promote the ultimate
interest of the people of South Sudan and the people of Jonglei in
particular”.
To help resolve the issues the meeting resolved to hold an urgent
inter-communal peace and reconciliation conference to realise national
healing at grass root levels, Maar announced.
Division of Resources
The meeting also called upon the government of the newly-independent
Republic of South Sudan to adopt a policy of allocating national
financial resources on the basis of the population size and severity
of needs.
Since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005 that
led to the establishment of the Government of South Sudan (GoSS), when
Sudan was still united, distribution of national financial resources
in the South was done equally among the states.
States received the same amount of money regardless of the 2008
national census results, in which Jonglei was found to be the most
populated state with over million people, and severity of needs.
During the state consultative meeting, currently adapted as an annual
meeting to update, review, coordinate and plan for the future of
Jonglei, the participants called upon the national government “to
adopt the policy of allocating national financial resources on the
bases of population size and severity of needs”.
The care-taker minister of Interior in the Republic of South Sudan
Gier Chuang lauded the government of Jonglei State for this
consultative meeting and the resolutions. He appealed to the MPs to
abide by the resolutions and work collectively to implement them.
The two day consultative meeting was appreciated by most observers who
hoped it will be a turning point for Jonglei.
(ST)
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