An official is urging disabled soldiers to resort to farming as a way of supporting themselves.

The Director of the newly created Ministry of Veterans affairs, Alonsio Emor Ojetuk, said war veterans should engage in agriculture production to earn money.

Mr. Emor said the war veterans can supply the army with farm produce if they engage in farming.

“We want the wounded heroes to live a dignified life, not a life that they are seen as beggars,” he said. “We are envisaging that by making them get skills in mechanized agriculture, they will contribute to the food security of our country by producing food for themselves.”

Mr. Emor also urges the war disabled to engage in entrepreneur jobs.

“This [agriculture] does not restrict wounded heroes from doing other actives which are of economic nature; if some of them are shopkeepers, they will continue as shopkeepers, if others are teachers, they should continue as teachers

Emor Ojetuk said there are over thirty eight thousand people wounded in war in the country.