Northern Bahr el Ghazal demands creation of more counties
October 13, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — Hundred of Northern Bahr el Ghazal state Citizens in Khartoum today unanimously supported proposal that demands creation of more counties out of the existing five counties with limited number of constituencies.
They said the move would help take services nearer to the people and create employment opportunities for the local population.
The proposal which started long before the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was shelved because many citizens thought representation in government institutions and into constitutional appointments would be done based on population size, said Hon. Geng Kon adding that current presentations are being done by counties without taking into consideration population of any given county.
“All the newly created counties during wars are now represented both Juba regional assembly and in National assembly in Khartoum,” he stressed.
A legislator, who raised a point seconded by most members of the state, during a meeting held at Wad el Basher suburb, west of Khartoum, added that this proposal needs to be brought to the attention of the President of the government of the Southern Sudan by a committee which will ensure immediate approval so that the would-be new counties are included in the budget of this financial year.
Geng emphasized that he supported creation of more counties to the existing five counties in the state, because, some counties in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state like Aweil East, for instant, with a population of over 700,000, is losing out because it gets the same amount of remittance as other counties with smaller populations in Southern Sudan.
He continued to add that “those who first initiated this idea should today consider me part and parcel of this. It was a proposal but we must now make an official complain to the government,” he said.
I hope creation of more counties will help new graduates from the mushrooming universities both abroad and in Sudan get employment. Creation of more administrative centers helps a lot in extension of government services to where they are much needed too, he adds.
A meeting he presided discussed lots of political and developmental plans including how and what citizens of northern Bahr el Ghazal should do to encourage peaceful implementation of the pending issues in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
It also affirmed Mading Aweil supports to both SPLM and the ruling National Congress Party in seeking peaceful settlements of all national matters.
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Lado
Northern Bahr el Ghazal demands creation of more counties
EVERY DINKA MUST READ THIS ARTICLE:
The demographic consequence of Nuer expansion/occupation brought a big effect on Dinka, Anyuak and Burun population repectively in the Sudan and Ethiopia. The fate of the Dinka, Anyuak and Burun inhabitants of areas appropriated by the Nuer remains to be considered.
Available data indicate that direct mortatity from Nuer invasions/raids has a negligible effect on the Dinka, Anyuak and Burun population over the long term while the taking of captives had a very significant effect. This is a consequence of the distinctive age and sex distrubition of casualties and captives respectively.
Most of the people killed in Nuer invasions/raids were men and older women while most of those captives were young women, girls and boys. The population would thus be reduced by the difference between the average age and nomal life expectancy of those killed multiplies by the annual casualties rate.
In contrast, the loss of a female of childbrearing age or yougner through captive remove two individuals from the population in the next generation representing the demographic replacement of these absebt offspring are also lost the following generations.
Since boys, girls and women of marriageable age were the objects of capture, older women probaly account for the majority of female casualties. Nuer invsions/raids are always resulted in the capture of substantial numbers of women and children than expension/occupation itself. And the number of captives taken also outnumbers casualties.
However, it seems likely that the preponderant majority were females who would generate bridewealth cattle for their captors when subsequently given in marriage to other Nuer men. The Eastern Jikany Nuer invasion/raid on the Burun in 1918, during which 250 young women and 400 children were taken along with 2,800 sheep and 800 head of cattle.
One of the most significant points that emerges from consideration of Nuer-Dinka, Nuer-Anyuak and Nuer-Burun conflict during the early coninial period is the extent to which the female segment of the Dinka, Anyuak and Burun population were affected by Nuer Warriors invsions/raids.
The number of cattle captured by the Nuer in large scale invasions/raids on the Dinka is surprisingly large, especialy gives the fact that the Dinka, Anyuak and Burun strategy of withrawal was predicated on minimizing stock/cattle losses. In 1914, over 5,000 cattle were taken away from Ghol and Nyarraweng Dinka in 3 days raids alone while a number of Bor Dinka and villages futher south lost all stock.
The capture of a single Dinka or Anyuak woman or a girl thus reduces the Dinka or Anyuak population by four individuals in a matter of one generation later, and adds a like increment to the Nuer population. Moreover, it is evident that the annual capture of a modest number of productive females would over the long term, effectively transfere a substantial portion of the reproductive potential of the Dinka, Anyuak and Burun population to the Nuer. This is of considerable importance because it suggests the same invasions/raids that were instrumental to Nuer expension/occupation also resulted in substantial additional to the Nuer population.
Just to make a long history short, we can take a comparason between the Nuer and Dinka of Greater Upper Nile State, the Nuer of Bentiu and Dinka of Bahr el Ghazal, but keep in mind Bahr el Ghazal is a land of many tribes such as; Blanda, Jurchol, Dinka and so forth. It doesn’t need someone to wait for the Census of South Sudan and find out which tribe is the majority in the State of Greater Upper Nile (Upper Nile & and Jonglie). And when we come to Nuer Genesis homeland (Bentiu), there is no doubt it can outnumber the Dinka Bah el Ghazal population.
In short, one may conservatively conclude that less than 50 percent of former Dinka (Luach, Eastren Ngok, Nyarraweng, Ruweng, Ghol, Padang, Angai, Dungjol, Twic, Bor, ect) and Anyuak inhabitants of the East of the Bahr el Jebel appropriated by the Nuer took refuge in adjacent areas to the north and south.
Therefore, Naath/Nuer is not only the brave ethnic group in East Africa, but the 1st largest tribe in South Sudan at the same time.
J.James
Northern Bahr el Ghazal demands creation of more counties
That is good idea
In fact if I could remember president Kiir talked about the creation of new counties for Aweil county in northern Bhar El Ghazel state and Pibor county in Jongolei state 2008 and the proposal was still on the table.
Matter of fact, it become even very difficult for the commissioners of the above counties to exercise their executive powers effectively.
It is not easy to pass even message to the citizens who are far away from the county headquarter, for example it is too hard to for the commission to pass message from Pibor to Buma which all the way near Ethiopian border, the distance of thousands of miles.
So GOSS need to look into that.
God bless
J.James
Northern Bahr el Ghazal demands creation of more counties
Mr. Door
You are just talking to yourself, sorry to answer shallow minded person like you.
I didn’t know that you are ignorant that far that you don’t even know whether Murle have county for years and years or not, please continue to sleep.
Ask your cousin if Murle are under Bor leadership in Jongolei state hahahahah, now go with your shame, anyway Kiir is not tribalistic that much like you, but if he choose to than that is fine young villager.
Mind your business
God bless
The writer was the one who traded you meat with your underwear in 1980s on your way to Itang.
Dinka Boy
Northern Bahr el Ghazal demands creation of more counties
Dear brothers and Sisters,
Nothern Bahr el Ghazal is the largest in population in the entire Southern Sudan. They have right to have another county. See now how many counties this little Equatoria have, and they are almost equal to NBG.
I support their ideas and if agreed then that is a fair game. This is how we Southerners should request thing, but not through voilent like what others demand.
Thanks
J.James
Northern Bahr el Ghazal demands creation of more counties
Thank you very much Mr. Man world
Indeed sometimes there are people born dunb-head enough that make things difficult to train them.
Tribalism will not take us anywhere at all till our few brothers who always want everything to be chanelled one way are going to learn a lession of unity and nationality. I know many people here don’t even have time for themselves to sit down one day lonely and think the meaning of the word southern Sudan? what is the different between their villages and Southern Sudan or Sudan in general, because if they have done that I think many of them would have not behave the way they behave now.
Anyways thank you for your comment, I know we have very good well educated Dinkas here and I think they will educate those villagers like Door in the near future.
God bless