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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>A South Sudan senior government official has claimed that his country cannot enforce laws because the United Nations arms embargo imposed in 2018 has made it difficult for the government to arms its law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

This, Onyoti Adigo \u2013 South Sudan\u2019s minister of livestock \u2013 said, has made armed youth in different parts of the country to be heavily armed than government security agencies making it difficult for the agencies to remove guns from civilians\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cCattle keepers [have] become notorious because they move with their arms, making it very difficult to control them. Some of them are more powerful than the army. It\u2019s not easy to disarm them unless the army has powerful weapons,\u201d Onyoti told an agriculture advocacy and lobby meeting that brought together cattle keepers and farmers yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cattle keepers are carrying more sophisticated weapons than the government because these cattle belong to the big people. Some people can be notorious because they are looking after the cattle of big people in government,\u201d Onyoti stressed.<\/p>\n

The senior government official further reiterated the commitment of the parties to the revitalized peace agreement to achieving permanent peace in the country and said the United Nations Security Council should remove the arms embargo.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe leaders who are signatories to the agreement have started working together, and they have no idea of returning to war. The main challenge now remains is how the government can remove the guns from the armed civil population,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In August last year, an attempt by the government in Juba to disarm civilians in Warrap and Lakes states sparked deadly fighting that resulted in unimagined losses for the South Sudan People\u2019s Defense Forces (SSPDF) as gun fire broke out after civilians were violently forced to handover their guns.<\/p>\n

President Salva Kiir Mayardit has on several occasions called on the United Nations to lift the arms embargo stressing that it affects the implementation of the security arrangements provided for in the revitalized peace agreement. But several Western diplomats have doubted the government claim, saying the government has more guns in the country to arms the unified forces.<\/p>\n

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