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This week, 260 returnees arrived to Aweil by land after routing through Malakal.
Addressing the journalists at Sika Hadid railway station during the reception of the returnees, the director of Relief and Rehabilitation Commission, Deng Kuel Kuel says his commission in collaboration with International Migration Office (IOM) are working harder to make sure that the returnees get the necessary basic support through the World Food Program (WFP).
He said that the returnees will be facilitated to reach their final or original locations of permanent residence as soon as possible.
“The state has just received 260 individuals who had earlier stranded in Renk. These returnees were being transported via boats up to Malakal and to Juba, from Juba the returnees were registered and transported to their various states,” Kuel told journalists.
Kuel furthermore, adds that the returnees had spent 15 days between Juba and Malakal and 5 days between Juba and Aweil and they had been so anticipating to be reach home safely.
He also said despite several breakdowns of vehicles on their way to Aweil, they managed to reach home safely.
He assured the public that his office in conjunction with IOM had organized and prepared for their reception in advance and that everything will be availed to them as soon as the rest and later will undergo reintegration process.
“We have prepared for their coming long time ago knowing that they would come by today as earlier one o’clock but since this is late evening, we still assure them of being taken good care of. We had in our minds that they would come earlier so that some of the nearby counties are taken straight to their counties but since it is late we shall let them do that by tomorrow morning,” he said.
Kuel also claimed that the returnees’ food is already secured in their counties through IOM sub-offices in the counties and that the ratio is meant only for three months before the returnees are fully integrated and considered as part of the community.
Statistically, he said the state has so far received over 20, 000 returnees in 2013 alone, which is rated as the most populated with returnees influx throughout the year.
He however disclosed that over 25,000 returnees are believed to be still abroad and that they will be brought by the support of IOM.
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