MEGA ROAD CONSTRUCTION LAUNCHES IN THE BAHR EL GHAZAL REGION
3 min readA MEGA-PROJECT OF MILLIONS DOLLARS FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION IN THE GREATER BHAR EL GAZAL REGION
By Emmanuel Malual Makuac, Rumbek, Lakes state
The people of Greater Bahr el Ghazal states have received great news of major interstate highways being funded and constructed by the Chinese in collaboration with the government of the republic of South Sudan.
The mega road will pass through Yirol and Rumbek and will connect Lakes state to Warrap and Northern Bahr el Ghazal states.
The road construction will be announced tomorrow morning and will commence soon after few bureaucratic procedures are cleared. It will be the second tarmac road in the country after the Nimule-Juba Highway.
The chiefs and the community leaders are very appreciative of the government for fulfilling the dream of Dr. John Garang, our late leader, freedom fighter and the founder of our nation, who once said that “we will take towns to the people, not people to the towns.”
The taking of towns to the people initiative by the government has been greeted with great celebrations across the region.
The people of Greater Yirol have expressed their utmost happiness after hearing the news because they often suffer a lot during the rainy seasons when all the roads are inaccessible.
One paramount chief has declared that the arrival of good road networks would be one more step towards fighting insecurity that has engulfed lakes state since it would be easy for the government to react and track down those who are causing troubles in the states.
The local people from the region believe that it is also good to promote their business opportunities, to market their farm produce and to find market for their livestock. It is also jobs creation opportunity to the youth because many investors will come to the region when there is good road system and communication and security for all the people.
The government will work hard to provide security in an effort to assuage the economic dependence on tax revenue from Nimule, which has cause considerable amount of friction between the government in Juba and the local people in Nimule town who complain of being pushed out of their ancestral land.
Above all, the mega road project will help in connecting the states in the Greater Bahr el Ghazal region that has never seen a tarmacked road since the creation of the Sudan and the present independent South Sudan.
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