(Jan. 17, 2014) The government is urging Internally Displaced Persons settled in UN compounds to return to their homes.
A high level security meeting chaired by defence Minister Kuol Manyang met on Thursday and resolved that extra security has been put in place across the country to enable people to return to their homes.
According to the latest humanitarian report, from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – OCHA, the number of people sheltering in UN bases is estimated at over 66,000, with the largest concentrations of people in Juba and Malakal.
Police spokesperson Col James Monday Enoka attended the meeting. Enoka says people are being urged to return to their normal lives.
“The IDP’s who camped in the UN compounds are requested to return to their homes as there is protection so they go to the people to really return to their places and to resume their works and to continue with their daily life as normal."
"So really it will not be a final solution that they remain in the UN camps forever they should return and have their liberty and freedom while the government is down there to protect them. The organized forces are fully deployed in all the zones and sectors in and sectors in Juba to protect life and property” Col James Monday Enoka says
The meeting in Juba was also attended by the Minister of Interior and representatives from the organized forces and the United Nations.
In other security news, two police men are being tried by the Special Police Court in the Buluk area of Juba after they were arrested on Thursday for robbing a civilian at gunpoint.
Police Spokesperson Col. James Monday says security personnel using the current situation to commit crimes will face the law.