Jonglei Businessmen Urge Government To Set Up Police Posts Along Roads To Block Criminals

This article was last updated on May 21, 2022

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The businessmen who transport livestock from different counties of Jonglei state to Bor for selling have reported more challenges facing them in their business due to criminal activities in the state.

Lual Gai Ater, a 29-year-old businessman from Bor county said to have started his business seven years ago with a single cow bought from Pibor county said that the state government need to put more effort on their business issues by setting up police stations along the road between Pibor and Bor and along Lou-Nuer roads to block the criminals.

Ater said that transportation of the cows from Fangak to Bor, the state headquarters is currently very expensive as one cow costs them 100 South Sudanese pounds per a police station along the river Nile before reaching Bor.

“Cows are expensive sometime in Fangak and to transport them to Bor county is a big problem to us and even we tried our level best to get transport fees to pay the owner of the boat police also over tax us on our way coming back to Bor county like now one police station can take 100 SSP and when we move 10 miles to 15 miles we get another police station they demand 50 SSP or 25SSP per cow,” Lual said.

He complained that the police over taxed them without offering help during attacks and that the transportation prices can sometimes be high affecting their profit levels.

Kuet Kong from Akobo County, who started his business in 1995, said the main problem has been the instability in Pibor.

“I am old in the job we bought cattle form Nassir whereby I buy one cow with 1,500 and when I come here in Bor I sell it with 2000,” he said.

He urges the youth not to be idle in the state as there are so many ways to become more productive in business.

Another businessman, Madiing Alier Gai said that government is always receiving information regarding killing of innocent people, cattle raiding and child abductions but they never take any action.

The Jonglei State Government has instructed citizens to take security as a collective responsibility in the volatile state.

Hussein Maar Nyuot, in his statement last week to the state government employees said that security has become a threat to the residents of Bor town because of the attacks being committed by the criminals at night.

Nyuot said that state security is a collective responsibility of every one and citizens must help the police forces to quill the security situation in Jonglei state.

“There is insecurity in this town because there are people who attack people and take children at night, there are also those who move at night in the market and break into the shops and steal the properties from traders at night,” he said.

In September, Suspected Murle criminals killed a man and abducted his two daughters in Bor town, Jonglei State.

The killing happened between Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology and Bor Public Primary school at night.

The incident that took place at about one and haft kilometre away from the state secretariat at night also left a neighbouring woman wounded following the other abduction were two children were abducted from Makol-chuei.

The acting governor also stressed that some of the people moved with street children to help them in carrying the looted goods.