Women Demonstrate In Maper For Unfulfilled Promise By Government A group of women residing in Maper residential area demonstrated for failure on the part of the government to fulfill a promise it made to them two months ago. 17 June 2015 [image: Women Demonstrate In Maper For Unfulfilled Promise By Government] Women who demonstrated sitting under a tree waiting for government to address them on the issue of payments for work done in Maper [Photo| Agoth Abraham]
By Agoth Abraham *AWEIL, June 15, 2015 [Gurtong] *- According to the women, Peter Majok Bildit, the Payam Administrator of Maper West and Senior Inspector in the Local Government Municipality mobilized the women in April to assist in the construction of a feeder road linking Maper, Maduany and Yith-aluk with Aweil town and were promised in return they would be offered food stuffs. However, since the completion of the work in May there have been no food stuffs distributed to the women. More than one thousand women gathered in Maper North demanding the government to intervene and pay them for the work they did. Anger Kuol, one of the women explains the ordeal. “We were told to come and make this canal, that there will be a budget for us. Later on the government officials came and told us that there will be nothing for us. So we went up to the municipality yesterday. They said they will look into it. Today we came so that we see what they can offer us be it quantity and type. We need what was promised to us. We came asking for what we worked for. If they will give us something or not, we still do not know. But yesterday they confirmed that there was something. However it is not clear. We worked 10 consecutive days in the hot sun. Is there anyone who works for free?” said Anger angrily. Achol Lual Ungom, one of the women representatives, speaking on behalf of the women said they are disappointed at the government’s decision. “The women here all worked. We are disappointed at this information that there will be nothing to compensate what we worked for. And that’s why all these days we have not been happy about this. We were just told in the beginning that we should work and we shall be given, dura (sorghum) oil and lentils.” She explained. Deng akot Aru, the Chief of the area said that the work the women were tasked with has negatively affected some of them. “Like 3 women had miscarriages when doing this work. Another woman here is disabled and her farm was destroyed by this work. So after all we found out that the mistake lies in the hands of local government.” He noted. A representative at the Ministry of Agriculture in the state, Santino Wol Aluk said “the government did not tell them they will be given sorghum but what was agreed was that they shall be supported with tools because the government does not have sorghum.” The women were advised by the Ministry to go back to their homes and will be contacted in the coming days when the government reaches a decision to solve their grievances. ------------------------------ [image: Bookmark and Share] <https://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pub=xa-4a8952f0662ccc6f> Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oqJ5tHPk2WMHqyuYpaQ_ksUQ-Z7aEkhvVqaetDR5rV6Eg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
