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The Commissioner of Juba County, Emmanuel Tate (centre) cautions IDPs and returnees against illegal acquisition of land. [Photo: courtesy]
The Commissioner of Juba County, Emmanuel Tate, issued a stern warning to the Internally Displaced Persons and the returnees against engaging in illegal acquisition of land.
On Friday, Tate held a meeting with the national government, Central Equatorial State and the South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission where they discussed the challenges facing the IDPs and returnees in Juba County.
He then acknowledged the social challenges facing the communities but also stressed the need for cooperation with the national government to address them effectively so that the people do not feel abandoned and resort to criminal acts.
“Now that we have some IDPs in Rokon, we came up with solutions and decided to intervene within two days,” he said.
“We also discussed the issues of PoC3 camps and the issue of land grabbing; those who are in refugee and IDP camps try to leave their camps and do some illegal activities by demarcating land and selling it outside, plus the other crimes that are taking place in the refugee camps.”
The Chairperson of the RRC in Central Equatoria, Felix Ladu, said the problem of the IDPs needs to be solved once and for all.
“We can be able to solve the problems of IDPs, returnees, and refugees; as the Commissioner said, we have discussed a lot and we have come up with resolutions to mobilise food, especially for this group who are in Rokon now, which is estimated at 1,500 people,” he observed.
“We also discussed the same issue of finding a durable solution for the POCs and other IDPs because if we don’t work hard to communicate with our communities, at least to find a place to resettle these people, this land-grabbing issue will continue,” he added.
The chairperson of the national RRC, Gatwech Peter Kulang, reiterated that they intend to find solutions and ways of implementing the policy on the IDPs and returnees so that they can be settled durably.
“Most of our people need our help as a government, so it is our responsibility to act now rather than facing another crisis shortly,” he said.
“We have many people who have returned from Sudan, most of whom are here in Juba. Those who will be willing to go to their estates; we have also discussed it with the partners; they are ready to be transported.”
Kulang said that “there are those who have no means to go back and want to choose where to live and it is our responsibility to see how we can settle them.”
“We are now working on planning how we can do their settlements, not only in the Central Equatorial but in various estates. I will be visiting the estates to see where there is a high return on IDPs,” he affirmed.
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