Jonglei government will chase idle NGOs – governor

By Philip Thon Aleu

March 9, 2008 (BOR, Jonglei) – Jonglei government will carry out ‘a very tough check to the performance’ of Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs) and will be forced to dismiss idle organs, Governor Kuol has said. NGOs say it is inevitable to rest as jobs dies and will try their best to avoid quitting Jonglei.

The governor, in a speech he delivered on Women Day (March 8), has assigned the evaluation of NGOs work to his deputy Hassan Mar. The governor said NGOs are very idle or slow in their works but deceives people for nothing. “They fly over us in planes but you do not what they are doing!” Mr. Manyang bitterly said sending UN agency representatives at the rally to look in depressing faces.

Polish Humanitarian Organization – PHO, United Nation Development Program – UNDP, World Food Program – WFP, Intersos, Handicap International, and UNHCR are among the NGOs operating in Jonglei and probably in question.

UNDP staff, who attended represented NGOs at the rally, contacted freshly by Sudan Tribune says “we are here for a purpose and the government has right to chase us if found idle.”

The governor however declined to name any poorly working NGO and silent to detail how slow the NGOs are performing but continue to call on their assistance to help the government to control the number of street children in Bor town.

“I call upon the UN agencies to help the state government, in providing food for these children. The government will build a boarding school for them,” he said.

But the major questions, NGOs in Jonglei, are likely to answer includes: why they stay in one compound (UNHCH and UNDP for example) – thus taking low number of casual workers, failure to complete projects in time and employing of foreigners as their staff in Jonglei. It will be a sad Easter holidays for some NGOs and/or staff.

(ST)