Oil should benefit to develop production areas – Unity’s independent candidate
February 1, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – Angelina Teny, independent gubernatorial candidate in the southern Unity State, yesterday vowed to exert all-inclusive efforts to reduce poverty once elected, adding oil should benefit people in production areas.
Angelina Teny, while addressing a gathering organized by her supporters from all counties of the state, on Monday February outlined major issues that could redeem Unity state from poverty.
The state minister for oil named one of the issues as innovation of better and sustainable ways on utilization of resources and ensures that they benefit people from the area.
Elaborating her points, the gubernatorial aspirant said for instance that drilling of oil should benefit people who live in areas where such activities are conducted.
“It is unacceptable that oil and other resources extracted from the area, but many communities living near the areas where the drilling operations take place do not benefit from the activities.”
“They do not get anything but have become subject to constant displacement without get basic services,” she stressed, adding this will be one of the issues to be addressed by her administration once elected.
Some of investors import everything including drinking water and food and even renting lorries from outside,” she said.
Another important issue according to her is the need to improve economic transformations so as to enable sustainability of economic gains and withstand the global vulgarities.
Angelina said another issue was the need to increase investment in infrastructure, so as to stimulate manufactories and production sectors.
The continent should also invest heavily in agriculture, which she reportedly described as the mainstay to between 8-90 percent in the rural communities.
“Agriculture will assure us of food security. We can export the surplus so as to get more money to improve agriculture,” she said.
She said Unity state, being one of the war stricken states in South Sudan, will focus on improvement of its human resources through investment in education and health sectors.
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