Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Traditional leaders from Ruweng Administrative Area (RAA) are urging the community to refrain from violence. This follows a weekend meeting in Juba that brought together about 20 local chiefs, other community leaders, and the Ruweng Chief Administrator, Peter Daau Chopkuer.
Ayat Ngor Ajach, the paramount chief of the Ruweng Administrative Area in Juba, told The City Review after the meeting that their focus was on how the community could co-exist and put cyclic violence in the past.
“As you may be aware, there were disagreements a few weeks ago between the host community and some friends with whom they had previously lived together, though our government on the ground was able to resolve the issues,” he said.
However, Ajach said there was still a need to keep more than before, adding the area leaders came together to seek ways to tackle the challenges facing the area.
“As chiefs in Juba, we felt we could make a significant contribution to enhancing long-term peace in the region, so we organised this meeting,” chief Ajach explained.
He said there were many difficulties that communities in the Ruweng Administrative Area had been dealing with. Ajach reiterated that the government and the communities in the area need to work together to address those challenges.
Flooding, instability, and other challenges barring the provision of food to individuals displaced by the floods were among the topics they discussed, Ajach revealed. He stressed the importance of long-term peace in the region, arguing that it would help address all the difficulties.
He urged his communities and the area’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) to coexist, adding it was time for the country to start forgiving each other and forgetting about the past.
“South Sudan belongs to all of us. We are children of this country, South Sudan, meaning I can go and settle somewhere, but that does not mean that I do not have to be respected and vice-versa. “
Although calm has returned to the area, Ajach said giving more support to the government to preach peace was the most important thing to build confidence among the communities in the area.
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