Jonglei celebrates 4 years of CPA; renewing hopes

By Philip Thon Aleu

January 10, 2009 (BOR) — Thousands of people took to Bor Town Freedom Square, singing songs of peace as Compressive Peace Agreement enters the fifth year of existence. This is the day where Jonglei citizens suspend their grudges and pray God for everlasting peace in the Sudan.

State government pledges for better phase of CPA and highlights some developmental procedures taken as insecurity and controversial survey of State capital dominants speeches.

Jonglei Government assured citizens of total peace should disarmament work. “Our problem is the arms at the hands of civil population,” Acting Governor Kengen Jakor Beyo, who is also the State Minister for Finance, told the CPA rally on January 9.

“We are going to deploy the SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army) between tribes and we told people to hand in guns,” he added referring to the South Sudan Vice President tours of some Counties in Jonglei last December.

Organized forces, religious groups and school children participated in matching on Friday. As differences were kept apart to have a peaceful celebration, school pupils whose colleagues are victims of abduction remind the government that peace is not completed in their poem entitled “We are tired of you hyena” saying “There is no peace when there is abduction of children. If you [hyena] don’t change, change will change you.”

There is nothing greater than peace. Bor Town has changed drastically from being an army garrison to modern town in four years. However, town residents erect toton (local made tents) for houses citing slow and unclear allotment of residential plots. This has left the town in an Internal Displaced Persons Camps status but government say people also response.

TV and FM stations are underway as telecommunication networks launch more services. This, the government says, is a sign of peace and development.

(ST)