(18th April 2013) - 80 women and children peacefully protested in Aweil on Wednesday about losing their homes in Maper North, and asked the legislative assembly to help.
They said individuals from the host community had claimed the plots where they live; plots which were recently defined by Northern Bahr el Ghazal State.
The ladies handed a petition to Speaker Achol William Amoui, who said the Assembly will meet the State Minister of Physical Infrastructure to resolve the issue.
The ladies representative Mary Amel Kuac, said “yesterday a person called Jiel Dhieu, went and registered all the houses and after the registration, he said that ‘I don’t want you here’.”
She said that after a long time in Khartoum, they had returned to vote for South Sudan’s independence.
“We refused to fight yesterday because we do not want to incite a problem in our State.”
She challenged the Speaker to say whether the government doesn’t want them because they were not originally from Aweil.
“We will keep on shouting to tomorrow and after tomorrow but we will not fight”.