Official: Thousands of Dinka Bor herds of cattle arrives in Jonglei state from the Equatoria region
4 min readBy Jongkuch Jo Jongkuch, Bor, South Sudan
April 20, 2016 (SSB) —- Bor county high authority official has announced that thousands of Dinka Bor herds of cattle arrived in Bor, Jonglei state from Equatoria region.
Equatoria farmers has being raising concern over their crops that are always being destroy by the cattle’s and complaining that cattle’s keepers should return their cows to their respective states.
In the late 2015 the president of the republic of South Sudan Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit issue an executive order for all the cattle’s to be return back to where they came from out of Equatoria region.
Bor county commissioner Isaac Mamer Ruuk confirm it to the PaanLuel Wel: South Sudanese Bloggers (SSB) that they have received big number of herd cattle camps who are coming from central Equatoria which is currently Jubek state.
Very large number of herd of cattle’s arrived in Bor County some of them went up to areas of Jalle and Baidit Payams located at north of
Bor town and many other cattle’s are now resettle in the swampy area of Kolyang Payam south of Bor town bordering Terekeka state Ruuk explains.
Commissioner said Jonglei state authority has received a message that there are some people who want to cross the river to other side of Awarial county of Eastern Lakes state.
We are already warns by the governor of Eastern Lakes state saying that “he don’t need any cattle’s camps from Jonglei state to cross the
Nile to go to his state because they want to disarm their youths for safety”, so we are already informed by the Eastern Lakes state authority to control our cattle’s not to go to Eastern Lakes state again said Isaac Mamer Ruuk.
Ruuk says two cattle camps are now in Sudan Safari coming to Bor of Jonglei state and they will proceed to other part of the state where they belong.
We are expecting more other cattle camps to start moving as soon as possible especially next week from Aroou junction to Juba Bridge and the SPLA forces are the one responsible; the Gen. Kheer Kheer is being appointed by the SPLA general headquarters to escort all the cattle’s from Jubek state to Bor of Jonglei state commissioner narrate.
He says there no insurgencies on the way people and cattle’s are moving safely. The communities of Jubek and Terekeka state are also interesting to allow our cattle’s to passé peacefully because they were being complaining all this along; they were refusing for the staying of our cattle’s in their region Ruuk added.
Commissioner says it’s very important for all the cattle camps to return back home to Bor and some other part of the state because those animals are food for the people around; the surrounded areas people can benefits a lot from the cattle’s.
Since there is hunger looming; cattle’s are part of feeding in our communities as we are all pastoralists we know the value of the cows said commissioner Ruuk.
He says when all the cattle camps are return the youths will come back to Bor and some will engage in education like now they are moving in bushes without putting their children into school it will not help us if those children are out of school said Ruuk.
Ruuk says when all the cattle camps are return back to Bor or Jonglei it will reduces tension from other communities.
All these along the neighboring communities are not interested for our cattle’s to stay in their territories he said.
He appeals to all Dinka Bor cattle’s keepers to left other people territory and you should come back to your own territory.
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