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By SRS
Posted to the web on February 11, 2009 |
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February 11, 2009 (Nairobi) — The 5 February deadline for Jonglei pastoralists to move out of Eastern, Central and Western Equatoria states, before they are forcibly evicted, has been extended by the Government of Southern Sudan.
President Salva Kiir appointed an SPLA major-general, Wilson Deng, to supervise the return of the cattle-keepers.
Speaking to Sudan Radio Service in Juba, Jonglei state governor Kuol Manyang said the move is to prevent further outbreaks of violence between the people of Jonglei and neighboring states.
[Kuol Manyang]: “The local people are complaining about the people of Bor cattle camps who are in Western and Central Equatoria; they have gone as far as Moli near Pageri and Ayii near Panyikwara and Ame. From both Magwi county and southern Bari. These are the people being returned. Some of them may have failed to control their cattle and the cattle may have gone to destroy the farms. If you go to a house of somebody and they don’t want you, you have to go back to where you came from. They have their own homes. If they don’t have enough pasture, then they can ask for permission to come back. If they are allowed, then of course they will be allowed to come back under certain terms. I am appealing for them not to wait for the army.”
On Monday, major-general Wilson Deng went to the cattle camps and informed the cattle-keepers to return to their respective areas or face forced eviction.
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