Jenifer James
Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The Central Equatoria State Demolition Committee said it would down the makeshift iron sheet structures built along the roads leading to the Juba International Airport.
The committee revealed this plan after meeting the area governor, Emmanuel Adil, to brief him on the progress of the exercise in the past few days.
Speaking to the Gubernatorial Press Unit after the meeting, Mawa Moses, the spokesperson of the committee, who also serves as the state minister of roads and bridges, stressed the committee’s commitment to demolishing all the unauthorised structures to uplift the city’s image.
“We will only leave buildings that are looking very nice, but the rest of the illegal structures, those with the iron sheets, these white iron sheets, we are not going to allow; we will remove them, and we will continue to organize the airport,” he said.
He added: “This week we will continue demolishing the Hai Malakal graveyard. We will also continue with the demolition of the graveyard along Bilpham Road, which we have not completed. We will go to public places like playing grounds, particularly Mauna playing ground, where we are coming very soon, and we will also come to Juba commercial.”
Mawa said the committee was also planning to repossess some land said to have been grabbed within the city, although he did not disclose when that would happen.
According to Mawa, the committee is committed to continuing with its work, and as per the governor’s directives.
“Juba is a capital city that needs to be organised, and it must look like any other city in the world. We will also come to the airport. Those who have erected illegal structures there, we don’t want to see any building that does not look nice in the airport.”
Early this week, the demolition committee started work at the Munuki graveyard, where dozens of families residing there have been evicted and their makeshift shelters demolished.
The state government said it embarked on the demolition exercise to eliminate illegal structures encroaching on designated locations in the city.
Source: The City Review South Sudan
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