Civil society groups in Imatong and Wau State held demonstrations rejecting any move of deploying foreign forces in South Sudan.

Hundreds of protestors matched from Wau Molid playground through Wau main market to the state governors’ offices to present their petition.

The protesters chanted “No to deployment of foreign regional forces in the Country.”

Santino Madut Uchalla, a state member of civil society representative, read the petition
“We are kindly asking UN, the mother of all nations to support South Sudan financially and humanitarian rather than military intervention.

“The UN should respect the sovereignty of South Sudan, the UN should know that the government of South Sudan is capable to solve it all problems as the leadership of this Country has ordered the cessation of hostilities, general amnesty and establishment of military court martial which is functioning now.

Meanwhile in Torit Town in Imatong State, hundreds of people also joined civil society organizations at the Fr. Saturlino Ohure mausoleum to deliver their petition to the state governor.

They marched to the state secretariat general in Torit yesterday.

“The other countries where foreign forces have been deployed, the deployment resulted into the collapses of all those countries. We don’t want our country the republic of South Sudan to be one of the victims of the foreign forces deployment,” he said the Chairman of Civil Society Organization Network, Steven Akim, adding that bringing foreign troops to South Sudan is not a solution to the conflict in the country.

State governor Nartisio Loluke said they stand with the civil society concern on the rejection of any foreign troops’ intervention in the country,
“This is the stand for the people of Imatong state it’s a strong move, and in deed for everywhere,” he said.