The Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Juba has reiterated his call on the country’s leaders to create job opportunities for young people but not to engage them in wars.

He was speaking yesterday on the visit of the Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of US‘s Washington at the Institute of Justice and Peace at the Catholic University of South Sudan.

Santo Laku Pio says South Sudanese do not have to continue fighting among themselves.

The cleric says the elites should stop giving orders for young people to kill themselves but create job opportunities to enable them to build the nation.

“We cannot go on and on, war after war created by people who are not fighting themselves but giving orders for young people to kill themselves and these young people are the ones continuing to suffer.

“Don’t continue manufacturing wars for us create job opportunities so that these young people when they go out there, they are going to work to rebuild this country,’ he added.

Reports suggest that young people make up 70% of the country’s population. According to him, many youth graduates do not have jobs and are the ones suffering.

“These young people even if they graduate when they go out there, there is no work.”