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The returnees recently arrived in Aweil from Sudan said that they would like the state government together with humanitarian agencies operating on ground to implement the promises they were told with during their reception at the freedom square earlier in the week.
Speaking to Gurtong at Sika Hadid Railway Station where the returnees are gathered, one of the returnees Achol Garang Deng says they are confused of what to say and what to leave because they are seeing no improvement to their basic needs for the few days they have spent so far and that the promises given to them during their reception are not fulfilled.
“Our living condition are not fully met as we were promised when the governor and the RRC briefed us about, we partially receiving small quantity of food with no enough safe drinking water at the centre, we were given a ration for less than a month and they claimed that it was for a month, many of our basic needs are missing which are very necessary to get, taking into consideration the soap and much more
other things,” she complained.
Meanwhile, another returnee who also spoke to Gurtong said that their conditions are not bad in term of basic needs but also in things related to hygiene and health are terrible in their camp and that has led to frustrations and impatience of whether these can be met.
“One of the major thing to talk about here in this camp is the issue of lacking medication services, if your child or an adult falls sick here you report knowing that there is going to be a consideration for that, then you are turned down with that, and they knew very well that since they brought us most of us were stranded in Kosti for number of months without working that led to being so much broke, why not catering for our medications until they hand us over to our relatives?” Akol Tong asked.
He also said that the pit latrines being used at the centre are very few and that the authority concern should speed up in increasing them.
In these complaints, Gurtong could not independently reach the RRC and state government authorities to verify the alleged claims.
A convoy of 26 buses carrying the South Sudanese citizens earlier stranded at Kosti in Sudan finally arrived to Northern Bahr el Ghazal State capital Aweil on Tuesday.
The buses were carrying 1348 passengers which is equivalent to 260 households all from Northern Bahr el Ghazal state.
The returnees were voluntarily transported with the help from African Inland Church, a Christian mission organization that has been working closely with Sudan-South Sudan in the re-integration of the stranded citizens of South Sudan.
The relief commission in conjunction with state government and partnering humanitarian agencies like International Office for Migration (IOM) and World Food
Programme (WFP) said the returnees have been prepared to get a 30-day food stuff ration while the integrations processes are ongoing.
The returnees had been stranded at Kosti town of Sudan since August this year.
Moreover, the RRC still claim that there are more still willing to come home from various Sudanese towns but lack affordability to come home voluntarily unless supported.
So far, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State is still being rated as the top state with high number of returnees who come into the state every year. Statistical surveys have been carried out by the humanitarian agencies in line with state government and found that NBGS has higher number of returnees.
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