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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The leadership of Pentecostal Brethren Church in Juba is appealing to President Salva Kiir to pressure Central Equatoria State government to return all land properties reportedly allocated to the churches.<\/p>\n

On 15th December 2023, Central Equatoria State Ministry of Land, Housing and Public Utilities demolished Pentecostal Brethren Church building located in Hai-Gonya.<\/p>\n

According to Pastor William Sebit Lumumba, PBC\u2019s Gonya branch was established in 1997. Rendering better spiritual and physical services closed to one thousand congregations.<\/p>\n

Sebit further said the demolished was conducted without notification to the church authority, something that took them all by surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just got phone calls from passerby that people are demolishing your church building. So, we were all surprised to see such thing happening,\u201d Lumumba narrated what the happened in an interview with Eye Radio.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, Pentecostal Brethren Church did not originate from the outside country or land grabbers. We did not just settle in Hai-Gonya illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got settled there under government approval, but the process of this particular land has some open corruption scandals because we have settled in that particular place for last 27 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd those who were recently given the same land were settled in, these people were not there from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u2018Persecution\u2019 \u2013<\/b><\/p>\n

Pastor Lumumba accused the Central Equatoria government of practicing religious persecution and calls on President Kiir to direct an investigation into the situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are appealing to the President to act on church plots that are being taken by some other entities, for example ours which has prevented us from developing and providing basic services to the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChurches are under persecutions. Kiir should take an initiative of issuing decree to recover church land. Am also urging Governor Adil to form a committee to investigate why church buildings are been demolished.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not right. Ideally, a church building is not supposed to be demolished but rather, it is supposed to be moved to a new location in a peaceful manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Fred Laku, Central Equatoria State Minister of Land, Housing and Public Utilities downplayed the accusation.<\/p>\n

Mr. Laku requested Pentecostal Brethren Church to abide with the government order.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no point for argument because Pentecostal Brethren Church know the truth that, the place does not belong to them \u201cPentecostal Brethren Church\u201d. They should understand and respect the system and government order of eviction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minister Laku said the church should stop crying over spilt milk and move on and establish their presence in the new location that they are compensated with.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot insist on something that you know it\u2019s not going to work. We have been so fair to an extent we compensated them compared to other places which have been demolished without compensations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut because of our respect to churches, that\u2019s why, they were compensated. Let them also understand this. Now, where will they go? Because this is same government responsible for plots allocations, directing them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a letter obtained by Eye-radio dated on 25th August 2023, Central Equatoria State governor issued appeal letter to State Ministry of Land, Housing and Public Utilities to resolve the land issue.<\/p>\n

But Pentecostal Brethren Church said no one acted upon the governor\u2019s appeal till now.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The leadership of Pentecostal Brethren Church in Juba is appealing to President Salva Kiir to pressure Central Equatoria State government to return all land properties reportedly allocated to the churches. On 15th December 2023, Central Equatoria State Ministry of Land, Housing and Public Utilities demolished Pentecostal Brethren Church building located in Hai-Gonya. 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