Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
By John Actually
April 16, 2011 (BOR) – The South Sudan Hotel in Bor has been declared open in a ceremony conducted on Friday, April 15.
School recited poems calling up on youth, government officials, position holders and women to stop corruption, laziness and drinking of local and modern alcohol in excess, asking them to develop the South Sudan ahead of its independence in July.
In January South Sudan voted to secede from the north in a referendum agreed as part of a 2005 peace, which ended over two decades of conflict.
Musicians, Akur Kuei, John Kudusay, Garang Alier played new songs for development, praising the current government of South Sudan for bringing South Sudan to her full expected destiny, independence. Young people took part in dances from on Friday and Saturday night.
Deputy Governor of Jonglei state, Hussein Maar welcomed the development initiated by South Sudan Hotel’s management saying the hotel has now finished at the critical time where its services are needed.
Marr said Jonglei state will have enough rooms and quality services to host South Sudan guests and other African dignitaries who will attend the 28th anniversary of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) – the movement which fought Khartoum from 1983 to 2005 – on May 16.
An army mutiny in Bor was the first act of Sudan’s second civil triggering the establishment of the SPLA. The South took up arms over political and economic grievances as well the implementation of Islamic Shari’a law.
Deputy governor Maar told Ayii Duang, owner of South Sudan Hotel, that money for development is not a waste, asking him to build private schools, technical schools and health centers in Bor.
South Sudan Hotel is a South Sudanese owned hotel chain operating in Central Equatoria State (Juba), Western Bahr El-Ghazal state (Aweil and Nyamlal counties),Northern Bahr El-Ghazal State (Wau), Upper Nile State (Malakal), Western Equatoria state (Yambio), and now Jonglei state (Bor).
South Sudan Hotel whose construction started in late 2010 in Bor has managed to raise four storey building and many accommodation rooms and restaurants in its vicinity.
South Sudan Hotel is a branch of Southern States Corporation for Development and Investment that provides hotel services besides transporting of medicine, schools materials, heavy generators for electricity, cars, building materials and petroleum facilities to major towns in South Sudan and provides youth with technical training on tailoring, carpentry, motor vehicle mechanics and electricity.
Addressing the opening ceremony attendees, Governor Manyang urged the citizens to work hard to meet the needs of growing population in the state, saying poverty eradication and poor development are the next ultimate wars to fight.
Manyang said the first face of the South’s was to achieve independence but now the region must eradicate poverty. South Sudan is one of the worlds least developed regions.
The governor called upon businessmen and external investors to come to Bor saying the Jonglei government and counties authorities are ready to give idle lands to investors to create jobs and develop the state’s economy.
He said the presence of South Sudan Hotel in Bor has promoted Jonglei’s image, adding that foreign and internal dignitaries and presidents of African nations including Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al- Bashir now have a secure and comfortable place to stay in Bor.
Bashir accepted the result of January’s referendum paving the way for secession. Salva Kiir the President of the semi-autonomous region of Sudan will in July, become head of state of the newly-independent Republic of South Sudan.
Before the opening of South Sudan Hotel in Bor, other hotels already existed. Among them are Garden Resort Hotel, Freedom Hotel, White Nile Hotel and Liberty Hotel but South Sudan Hotel has taken a step ahead of other hotels in terms of its capacity and structure and four stories.
South Sudan Business Association chairman, who is also the owner of South Sudan Hotel, Ayii Duang thanks Jonglei government and citizens saying he was asked by Governor Manyang to build a hotel in Bor.
Duang said he is ready to build a standard health center in Bor adding that building materials and technical team are on the ground prepared and ready to start work.
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HONEY
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
good work, now i have a place to stay when i go home for independence.
About the laziness of the people and alcohol consumption, i was very dissappointed when i last went home. its always foriegners building our roads and working at our hotels and the locals refuse to lift a finger to even build a simple toilet for their families.
shame on you people. this mentality of ‘am son of so and so’ will only leave you a poor men in this modern day. WAKE UP!
Bol Deng
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
Development is the essential investment that the South Sudanese should pursue at the moment. I urged those militia followers to join their brothers and sisters in the building of their new Nations instead of seeking for infinite dims in Khartoum. Thanks
Timsah
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
To Ayii Duang,
The man is from Aweil and the money invested is part of the 500 Millions that Mr.Arthur Akuein had stolen.This money was stolen from the poor people of South Sudan.SHAME
Dr.Lologo
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
Guys lets be honest,
Which development we should yarn about? Hotel is a development? What about schools, Roads, drinking water and running water, Hospitals and ETC?
It true that it always the money you didn’t worked for it can be use for nonsense things.
the security in Bor is number One instead of Hotel, If George Athor missiles destroy the hotel then what can we says.
The hotel built for the ministers to use it for their private dating. “Denying Culture” wait and see you will find that foreigners are the only employees in that hotel because of the dirty that they will be doing.
Ghai-nyanthy
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
Stolen and spent on development of the country is much better than the money taken outside and out of the reach of the citizen.Good development mr.Ayii you are providing your country men and women the rightful materials.May God bleess your work.
Dut Monybor
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
Hello Dr Lologo
thank you very much indeed for your comment .Building hotel in jonglei state is not a development.If you want to talk about development in Jonglei state please don’t mention hotel because it bring nothing to our people.you must talks about thing like Hospital,school,water service,Road,which Dr lologo
talk about it.
and thank you
johnny
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
Governor!, Deputy governor!, Cabinets!, horrible, what do they realize in this? what development is this hotel bringing to the people of jonglei? this is really a smack on their face, if i were a minister i couldn’t attend because of the shame its depict, visionless topdogs don’t realize it, well, it can be good at better times when we have schools, mention them, but a hotel bringing all this dignitaries including even school children? a picture that this hotel will portray, is a bowl that is clean outside and dirty inside. “Nyani haoni kundule chake”.
Garang's Son
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
you need not to the belindly,don’t you know that our people like foriegers rather than the son,daugters of the soil.they are eager to work but no body can give them the work.bse our people are so jeouse they don’t want others to reach them in terms of money.so the day come for all the rich & the poor.
Garang's Son
Jonglei: South Sudan Hotel opens in Bor
you need to know the behaves of our people they like foriegers rather than any body around. they are eager to work but no body can give them the work,bse they don’t want any other person to reach them in terms of money.