Bor power station sends hundred homeless

By Philip Thon Aleu

March 18, 2008 (BOR, Jonglei) – Electrical power station construction in Jonglei capital, Bor, has demolished tens of houses, inhibited by hundred on Sunday March 16 leaving them without shelters and exposed to rains expected in weeks time.

The power station project, sponsored by Egyptian government and being implemented by Egyptian Engineering Company, Sabina Investment and Engineering Co., had it work delayed for four months after the government’s slow resettlement process, engineer Mohamed Adman told Sudan Tribune today at the construction site. The twelve months contract started on 12/12/2007 “would possibly be reversed following this delays,” the engineers elaborated.

The displaced people will acquire plots in the last quarter of third or first quarter of fourth class (Bor town survey grading system) in Hai Tura, a Bor town suburb. The victims accused the government of taking long to grant them new plots title and exposing them to heavy problems including “rains, cleaning of the new plots and setting up houses” subsiding taking them to the suburb they described “remote.”

Sleeping hours will hours will reduced in twelve months time if lack of space was the stumbling block and working hours will increased.

The state government says it’s trying her best to “boost Bor town beauty” and provision of light is a break through.

(ST)