UNMISS has offered to build prison fence in Gok state, the minister of information in the state has said.

In April, the information minister told Eye Radio that due to lack of facility, their governor was operating under a tree.

This came after a photograph of the governor was widely shared on the social media.

In the picture, the Governor is seated behind a big plastic table, on the table are writing materials, office stamp and table nametag flanked by two flags.

And it reads; Major-General Madhang Majok Meen, Governor of Gok State – Cueibet.

When contacted, the information minister, John Madol said the authorities in Gok had no choice but to work under trees.

As a result, Madol said the UN mission has offered to build prison fence.

“The UNMISS team headed by its Human Rights Department is to launch groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of prison fence in the state capital, Cueibet,” said John Madol.

“This is to prevent the prisoners not to escape and also for security.”

Gok is one of the states that were part of the former Lakes before the split in 2015.

Being a new state, it faces a lot of challenges including infrastructure and mobility.

According to officials there, the office of the former commissioner of Cuibet, now the state capital, is being used as the state assembly and therefore the rest of the government including the governor have been operating under trees.