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During the meeting with the governor Lobong, Archbishop Deng introduced the state committee while explaining their duties to the governor.
He further informed the governor that his committee has come to brief the people especially the leadership of the state that they were ready to start to peace mobilization work saying what they need is to bring peace and reconciliation to all the people in the country.
He clarified that there have been lots of problems with fighting amongst communities which must be stopped.
“But time has come for us as a nation to come together to bring peace to our people and make sure we live together because this is a change to us. We have a new country and if we don’t bring our people together to live in peace, then it will be meaningless to have a nation, like South Sudan for the case of South Sudanese people, he said.
He said their visit to Torit is starting to explain about a 15-member state committee to be trained thereafter additional 50 members will be trained.
The 50 members will then be released to go down to mobilize and inform the people about all the programs of peace and reconciliation mobilization.
The committee chair disclosed that the committee is going to carry out peace and reconciliation activities in the state and then will continue to other states.
“We will go down to mobilise our people and inform them of all the programs of peace and reconciliation mobilization. We are going to do it and then we will proceed to other states. So, we will first start here in EES and later on move to different states of South Sudan,” he emphasized to the press shortly after the meeting with the governor at the state secretariat in Torit.
The members of the committee include His Lordship Bishop Paride Taban as Deputy Chairperson, His Lordship Bishop Rudolf Deng Majak member, His Lordship Bishop Enock Tombe member, Moderator Peter Lual Gai member, representative from the Muslim community, one from each of the ten States of South Sudan, one representative from the Youth and one representative from the civil society.
The terms for the committee include developing objectives of national peace and reconciliation, to determine short term and medium-term activities, to reach modern and traditional conflict resolutions.
The team is to liaise with the government to provide security, financial support and mobility, to solicit funding from the local and international bodies and to seek their expertise and to for consultative body comprising of South Sudanese elders as advisory body.
The committee may where it deems necessary co-opt any relevant member and any from the sub-committee at the state level.
The committee is an independent body which shall not be subject to control and direction from anybody or any institution, the role if the government shall be facilitative and provide support, where necessary and when called upon.
During the formation in April, all bodies previously formed and established by the government of the Republic of and tasked with national reconciliation were ordered to immediately hand over all the documents, assets, finances at their disposal to the new committee.
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