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East African truckers demand clearance of forests along highway, IGAD escort before proceeding to Juba

In a press conference at the border entry to Nimule town on Monday morning, the drivers said the forests and bushes around the highway hide attackers and also demanded that compensations for the losses incurred, including for vehicles which were set ablaze, during last month's highway attack.

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Long distance trucks line up along the Amagoro-Malaba Highway as they wait to cross the border to Uganda [Photo by Emojong Osere/The Star]
Long distance trucks line up along the Amagoro-Malaba Highway as they wait to cross the border to Uganda [Photo by Emojong Osere/The Star]
JUBA – Ugandan and Kenyan truck drivers carrying goods but who are stuck at border point near Nimule have set preconditions for proceeding to deliver goods to South Sudan saying they won’t travel to Juba until when the government clear the forests along the highways and when the regional bloc IGAD provide security escorts.

In a press conference at the border entry to Nimule town on Monday morning, the drivers said the forests and bushes around the highway hide attackers and also demanded that compensations for the losses incurred, including for vehicles which were set ablaze, during last month’s highway attack.

“Our demands includes, one provisions of security to humanity and goods in all parts of South Sudan that include escort for drivers from IGAD and clearing of bushes around highway that hides enemies and compensation for all losses suffered by our families of all drivers who were killed including goods and vehicles burnt in South Sudan,” one of the truckers reading out the truckers’ statement said.

The truck driver also accused members of South Sudan army of intimidating the drivers along the highway and said the drivers have always been forced to carry heavy loads including logs and charcoal to Juba by members of the organized forces urging the government to stop that practice.

“They must also stop extortion of money from all drivers which brings beating, intimidation harassment of drivers along the highway of Nimule-Juba road. We also call for removal of all road blocks along the highway of Nimule-Juba road which force the drivers to carry logs and charcoals by military officers especially in Aswa Bridge, Moli, Toguro and Obama,” he said.

The drivers called for the removal of well-known military officers who they accused of intimidating and robbing them along the highway and said they won’t proceed to Juba if the government of South Sudan does not meet the demands.

“We also need the removal of recognized officers who have been creating insecurity along the Juba highway. So those are out demands and that are the crimes against the drivers and these are what drivers need to be stopped,” they said.

“Until when the government of South Sudan finished all these demands, then drivers will be free, will be ready to travel to inside South Sudan thank you,” they said.

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  1. Gol Bol says:
    2 years ago

    “East African truckers demand clearance of forests along highway, IGAD escort before proceeding to Juba”

    Let the goods be taken over by South Sudanese truckers to South Sudan from Nimule and Kitale, and go and bring other goods. Do those so-called truckers even what IGAD really is? IGAD is just an abbreviation of ‘Inter-governmental authority on Drought (IGAD)’. Since when has South Sudan has become the heart of IGAD? Countries who have no food and anything in their countries, are even called South Sudanese. Somalia, most parts Kenya, Abesh (so-called ethiopia) prostitute low life, Djibouti, Uganda and our cloned so-called arab North Sudan; have no food in their countries.

    But hungry South Sudan and the South Sudanese people are what these vermins/parasites/viruses project as their most hungry country on earth. Follows us low lives, there are some limits. WW3 is going to start here in South Sudan, and we are going occupy Kenya, kill everything that is connected to evil white Americans, English people, their Bantuses out of Laikipia, Nanyuki, Nyahuuru, Nyeri, Nairobi, Mombasa, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, their evil *Kobils and Kenols’. All Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Nepalese or Sri Lankans bombed Jomo Kenyatta international airport to a parking lot, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM*.

    Here in South Sudan, we have informed our bunch of fools to let us round up these vermins/parasites/viruses out of our country and our backs, but they just want to be told more. United Nation Environmental program (UNEP) is in Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Most low lives who work there are Kenyans, some are Europeans, Americans misfits who cannot get a a job in their own countries.

    Well, there is a climate change, but climate didn’t come and changed in ‘South Sudan and over South Sudanese people’. If can ask some South Sudanese who think, they know better than us, *where they think, Kenya with over 40 million people, a country smaller than South Sudan, with no resources get her food from?* Our lowly South Sudanese would spring their usual long necks out and say, the food (maize/corns/sorghum), just grow from the trees. Good luck to our fools.

    I linked these on line article a number of times: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjl0M7z4uzyAhUEeisKHZPADNoQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fforeignpolicy.com%2F2013%2F01%2F11%2Fsubsidizing-starvation%2F&usg=AOvVaw101Awjxqt7M1FZhtXnAnMb

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjl0M7z4uzyAhUEeisKHZPADNoQFnoECBYQAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldfuturefund.org%2Freports%2Fhaiti%2Fclintonhaiti.html&usg=AOvVaw3ofa1oWjCkHfIm5vX5tGPH

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjl0M7z4uzyAhUEeisKHZPADNoQFnoECAIQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleveland.com%2Fworld%2F2010%2F03%2Ffood_aid_helped_destroy_haitis.html&usg=AOvVaw3b_vv1zY9yBw3KqLphyWOg

    Kenya doesn’t grow any damn food. Hong Kong don’t and damn food, Rwanda doesn’t grow anything; Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans don’t grow any damn food, Abeshas (so-called ethiopia) prostitutes don’t grow any damn food, their gulf Arab states in a dry bone country don’t grow any any damn food, Northern Nigerians (Boko haram), don’t grow any damn food and their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs don’t grow damn food.

    ‘That South Sudan would be made *a benchmark/Threshold/opening*. We would want no white people on this planet earth. War is here. We are the ancient Egyptians. People who can challenge us on this planet earth, don’t exist. Mighty US, the UK, their cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, their Abeshas (so-called ethiopians) prostitutes, some of their Bantuses, their UN, their sleazy NGOs, their UNMISS mercenaries of Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans and Arabs are going TO BE WIPED OUT MAP, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM>>>>

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