Month of Ramadan hampers road transport in Unity state
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
August 18, 2010 (BENTIU) — Commuters get stranded every evening hour between Unity state’s capital, Bentiu, and the neighboring Rupkotni town as Ramadan prayers have slowed down the transport services between the two towns.
Hundreds of civilians line up in the busy streets of Rubkotna at 6:00pm waiting for public transport which can take them to Bentiu town. However, this is the eighth day of Ramadan where many taxi drivers go to Mosques for the holy month prayers.
Speaking to one of the public transport drivers, Mohamed Nujumi, confirmed to Sudan Tribune that the evening hour was the time when every Muslim driver prepares to get his meal after the whole day of fasting.
One of the challenges also facing the commuters is the rainfall which has spoiled some of the roads between the two busy trading towns in the state.
The traders have appealed to the mini-bus drivers to consider evening hours as rush hours during which the drivers should also provide the service.
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Paul Ongee
Month of Ramadan hampers road transport in Unity state
Why did we allow all the mini-bus drivers or owners to be Muslims? Half of the owners of those buses supposed to be non-Muslim in case of Ramadan or afternoon prayers of 1: 00 pm. How can sick persons get to a hospital if all transport services are stopped for about one/two hours?
kulea
Month of Ramadan hampers road transport in Unity state
Hello people of Unity State how is the result now I gust you all see the challenging of the two Nation in your State, your Governor Taban Deng is accommodating the Arabian North Muslim in Bentiu this thing it show that Taban is not a real man bloody from Nuer people as many people were mentioned earlier.
Taban’s from North he a part of them he has right to recruits the Arab Muslim in Unity State because some of them were’s cousins according to my knowledge about him I knowledging that’s real Dad from Northern Sudan Deng Gai isn’t the real Dad he the one who adapted him he just his Mam her boyfriend at that time,
for those who doubt me they doubt the actual knowledge you see the ways how Taban treat the Civilian of Bentiu
in general Taban treated them unfairly,injustice,partiality,humiliation of human right and power abuse overthere in Unity State Bentiu one day Taban will face the World Court to paidback the price of his criminologist misleading leadership
Adam
Month of Ramadan hampers road transport in Unity state
Dear readers,
We cannot complain that Muslim people from the North or South are comprising the majority of small bus / taxi drivers in Bentiu or any other place in the South. Islam has nothing to do with this problem. There must be a way to regulate public transport during rush hours. Muslim drivers can easily give their cars to their non Muslim brethren to cover the Prayer time.
Please do not bring religious troubles to own mountain-weight problems. A friend told me the other day that young southerners are almost controllers of Gamhouria street shops in Khartoum. We haven’t heard that somebody from the North complained of such a situation.
It is true that we need highly trained and experienced civil servants to render and orchestrate the services to our people. Foreign nationals will steal our resources and they may intentionally serve the agenda of enemy Intelligence by complicating or destroying our projects.
It is better and even very good that this industry is so far run by our skin brothers (being a Muslim or not). We know and deal with them for decades in peace, love and cooperation. Many are intermarried.
With negative attitudes and actions we create unnecessary problems for ourselves. Soon Ugandans and Kenyans will leave no open employment chance to our native people, and will also bring with them all the diseases and social ills in the world to our society, as they did in Juba.
We need a lot to build a nation – not as easy as the separatists are misleading and lying to the general public.
Adam Milawaki, Kansas City