Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The Vice President for Gender and Youth ClusterRebecca Nyandeng De Mabior yesterday pointed fingers and blamed youths for mostof the mess that occurred in the country.
This followed the request by the Deputy SpecialRepresentative of the Secretary General of United Nations (UN) Day 2021 GuangCong to the government in which hementioning challenges faced by the UNagencies and staff at their workplaces in the country among them thehostilities by some group of youths.
Speaking during the celebration of the UN Day inJuba Nyandeng said that things went sour in 2013 and solvingthem would be a long process because most of the problems were being caused bythe youths.
“In 2013 things went sour and wrong in our country.For that to be repaired quickly, it cannot workovernight. You have to be patient with ussince some oftheproblems we are experiencing arefrom the youths,” said Nyandeng.
She stated that the government first to engage theyouths of the country to be part of the process of development with the aim tostop them from being redundant and causing problem.
She revealed that she had spoken with partners aboutthe issues of engaging youths and women in which they promised to help hercluster to address the issue.
Nyandeng saidthat the country would continue to remain poor if the youths were not engagedpositively because they had the greatest population and more energy than othergroup of people in the country.
She added thatit was time to put things right and toopen a new page becausethe citizens had created problems for themselves to the extentof killing each other.
She appreciatedwhat the UN had done for the countrysince the time of war by helping and supporting in saving life be it in the medicalfield, food and even in security. She thanked the leadership of the U.N for being ableto help where possible in which South Sudan was a witness to.
The Deputy Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneralGuang Cong urged the authorities and communities to ensure there wassafe and unhindered access of humanitarian partners and to refrain fromviolence against aid workers.
“We urge the authorities and communities to ensure asafe and the unhindered access of humanitarian partners and to refrain fromviolence against aid facilities and worker for us to courageously supportpeople in need,” said Cong.
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