Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The Northern Bahr el Ghazal State legislature on Tuesday passed resolutions to register foreigners and ban the importation and consumption of Star Gin alcohol in the state.
The resolutions were sent to the state ministry of local government to package into Parliamentary Bills which will be passed into law.
Upieu Jongkoor, the deputy chairperson of the information committee at the state parliament, told Radio Tamazuj Thursday that the resolutions were passed so that the government could monitor the activities of all foreigners.
“The resolutions that the assembly came up with are registration of all foreigners living in the state and confirmation of their exact activities,” he said. “And another thing is we banned the Star Gin alcohol because its usage harms health, destroys the youth, and causes insecurity in the state.”
He added: “This is what we agreed and ordered the concerned authorities to draft those bills and after that, the assembly shall pass them into law.”
Jidu Mohammed Abdalla, the leadership of the Sudanese community, the largest foreign group in the state, said they had already started registering its members in collaboration with security agencies and with the knowledge of Governor Tong Akeen Ngor.
“We were the first foreign community which said that every Sudanese in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State must be registered and we started it and every Sudanese resident here must appear in our records,” Mohammed said. “We collaborated with the security agencies, especially the immigration department, and we even informed the state governor about it because some unwanted practices have been happening.”
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