Jonglei Governor Warns Pastoralists Against Moving To Central Equatoria State
The Jonglei State Governor Kuol Manyang Juuk has warned that tough measures will be taken against government officials who have issued permits for pastoralist to move into Central Equatoria State with their livestock. 16 May 2013 Jonglei State Governor Kuol Manyang Juuk. [Gurtong | File] By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 15 May 2013 [Gurtong] – Manyang said that he has aware that pastoralists who have moved to Central Equatoria with their livestock have official permits given to them from the state. The governor spoke to the media on Wednesday saying that he has been informed by the governor of Central Equatoria that all the pastoralists were moving with official permits given to them from Jonglei state. “I didn’t believes that because my orders and advises is that, the commissioner of Bor county should not allow any pastoralist to go back to Central Equatoria with cattle,” Governor Manyang told the media. Kuol said that if there are some people who do give permits to pastoralists to go back to Central Equatoria, then is something which has been repeated several times. “I am urging the people concerned for security to find out the truth, if there are people who give permit to pastoralists, we will take measure against them,” he said. He said that members of Parliament in the national government have tried to advise the pastoralists so that they can get back home but they have refused, claiming that the people from Central Equatoria had welcomed them. He said he instructed the national security bureau to find out the truth about anybody who issues the permits to cattle keepers. The governor said that if the pastoralists deserted their home areas because of the insecurity they might be right adding that there is no fear the government has deployed the army to protect their property in the state. “When we learn that the cattle keepers were going back my office have called the commissioner of Bor county to stop pastoralists from going back to Central Equatoria and the commissioner did it by calling the members of parliament, the chiefs and community leadership to advise those young people not to go to Central Equatoria,” he said. Posted in: Home, Governance -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
