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Diaspora Chollo women fund-raise in aid assistance to IDPs

Chollo women in the diaspora have provided some humanitarian assistance to conflict and flood-affected people in the kingdom.

The diaspora women fund-raised the support for victims of the recent ethnic violence.

” We here, we do contributions of 3 or 4 $ to support the community, but we don’t have funds”, Veronica Ajak, the focal person of the group told Eye Radio in a phone interview from the US.

Ajak said the union managed to raise money and buy food and medicines which they delivered to the IDPs in Malakal and Kodok in the Upper Nile state.

“They [chollo members] managed to buy the medical stuff for Chollo areas. We reached Malakal, and we supported some of the families there. We also managed to support those in Kodok”,  she said.

The Chollo Women’s Union for Development was founded in 2021 in the US.

 

 

Upper Nile governor Budhok, several SPLM-IO state officials relieved

President Salva Kiir has relieved the governor of Upper Nile State and some senior members of SPLM-IO in several states in a series of Presidential decrees Thursday evening.

In the first decree read on the state-own TV,  SSBC ,  Kiir removed governor Budhok Ayang Kur and appointed James Odhok as the new governor of Upper Nile state.

Budhok was appointed in January about this time in 2021.

His appointment then had brought an end to a long deadlock between President Kiir and his first deputy Dr. Riek Machar over a nominee for the gubernatorial post.

Following his installation, President Salva Kiir tasked him to restore security and peace in the oil-rich, but war-ravaged state.

But the restive region continued to be the most volatile in the country mired in inter-communal violence in recent months.

Budhok’s successor was the Chairperson of SPLM-IO National Committee for Culture, Youth and Sports in the Upper Nile State.

In another decree, Kiir relieved Yoane  Jek Guop, Unity State Advisor on Gender, Child, and Social Welfare, but without a replacement.

In the same state, Kiir relieved James Tunguar, the Minister of Animal Resources, Fisheries, and Tourism; James Gatluak Wichar Nyak who was Ruknona County Commissioner and Charles Wal, Unity State Anti-Corruption Commissioner.

President Kiir then appointed Lony Majier as Unity State Minister of Animal Resources, Fisheries, and Tourism.

He also replaced Gatluak Wichar Nyak with Dhol Khoriom Liling as the new Rukona County Commissioner, and Kuo Majok in the place of Charles  Wal, Unity State Anti-Corruption Commissioner.

Kiir went on to appoint Bol Akot Agok in the place of Andrew Achieng who had resigned as the Commissioner of Yirol County in Lakes States.

Still, in Lakes, Kiir relieved Majur Deng, the state Employee Justice  Chamber Chairperson and replaced him with Lino Kum Ngor.

Two members of SPLM-IO, Jesus Deng Atem and Jok Alor  Assembly who represented Jonglei State and Abyei Administrative Area in the  Revitalized Transitional National Legislative respectively had their seats revoked.

They have been replaced by Angok Bol Deng and Amin Kiir Del accordingly.

The Thursday evening decree also saw two Eastern Equatoria State SPLM-IO MPs, Karlo Peter Lolip and John Lokale Lomodo lose their seats. They were replaced by Barnabas Loleng Lotumo and Joel Nanok Nanakuru respectively.

Meanwhile, two other officials, Hilary Claudio Musa, Western Bahr el Ghazal State’s Peace, and Security Advisor, and MP Marko Peter at the state assembly have also been affected.

Eye Radio is yet to confirm their replacements.

CES demolition committee starts retrieving land from grabbers

A Central Equatoria state demolition committee has identified five illegally occupied places and retrieved one within Juba city.

Some of the illegally occupied places belonged to churches while others were playgrounds.

“We have  St. Michael Chapel church in Juba-Nabari, which belongs to the Episcopal Church (ECS), we have already dealt with that and retrieved the place and handed it back to the church people,” Fredric Laku Raymundo, the demolition committee head said.

Other premises include the Kenya Embassy at the Wewe Market, Christ the King chapel at Juba-Nabari and an industrial area formally occupied by Sudan Aid at the Mauna area.

Laku said the committee is going to notify the illegal occupants to leave the identified areas peacefully or else they will face forced eviction.

” This is a warning, we will inform them to leave the place,”

“But those who want to cause problems then we also will deal with them violently. We are ready for any eventualities”

Laku added that the exercise marked the state’s efforts to resolve cases of grabbed pieces of land in the state and prevent the occurrence.

 

 

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