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South Sudan to continue with river dredging project despite EA court case

A group of lawyers logged a legal complaint against the government at the East African Court of Justice arguing that the project is being done without the needed environmental risk assessment and would affect the entire Sudd region.

June 18, 2022
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Gattiek Gatkuoth Wichar, Press Secretary for South Sudan minister of Water Resources and Irrigation speaks during a function. [Photo via Facebook]
Gattiek Gatkuoth Wichar, Press Secretary for South Sudan minister of Water Resources and Irrigation speaks during a function. [Photo via Facebook]

JUBA — South Sudan’s ministry of water resources and irrigation has said that the lawyer who dragged the government to East African Court of Justice did not follow the right procedure and the dredging project for Naam River will continue as planned.

Earlier this month, the ministry announced the arrival of dredging machines from Egypt via Sudan to Bentiu in preparation for clearance of weed impeding water flow from Naam River to the White Nile.

The arrival of machines sparked public outcry in Juba even among the educated class, but witnessed a welcome discussions among residents of Unity State who believe the project will rescue them from floods that have displaced more than half of the state’s population and killed hundreds since last year.

A group of lawyers then logged a legal complaint against the government at the East African Court of Justice arguing that the project is being done without the needed environmental risk assessment and would affect the entire Sudd region.   

Elario Adam Cholong, a Juba-based lawyer, logged a complaint against the government saying the “project is environmentally untenable and it will traverse protected area in East Africa, with undue regard to livelihoods, gender, food, children and public health of the East Africans.”

He argues that “the area through which the dredging project shall pass is comprised of several settlements, farmlands and water sources for thousands of indigenous persons and there has been no regard to their rights.”

But when contacted by Sudans Post this afternoon, the press secretary of the minister of water resources and irrigation Gattiek Wichar, said the lawyer did not follow the appropriate legal procedures and that he should have first exhausted local remedies before going to Arusha court.

“That lawyer did not follow right procedures. He should understand the project before rushing to court. He should exhaust local remedies before taking it to the regional court but his case won’t work he is just doing it to seek public attentions,” he said from Juba.

When asked as to if the project will continue, Wichar said there is nothing stopping the project because it is a matter of survival for the people of the floods-affected states in the world’s youngest country.

“There is nothing stopping it to the best of my knowledge because the project is a gov’t led-project which is Ministry’s strategy to response natural calamity posed by floods in the country,” he said.

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  1. Gol Bol says:
    1 week ago

    ‘South Sudan to continue with river dredging project despite EA court case’

    Sudans post, there is no damn ‘dredging of our Nile’ by any piece of shit on this planet

    “A group of lawyers logged a legal complaint against the government at the East African Court of Justice arguing that the project is being done without the needed environmental risk assessment and would affect the entire Sudd region”

    We have have better lawyers, than your firth rate lawyers in East Africa, the US, the UK, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, gulf Arab states. The damn so-called East Africa Community (EAC). Kenyans, Ugandans, Rwandans, Burundians, Tanzanian lawyers or democratic republic of Congo (former Zaire) lawyers? AFRICA UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION, *where we can live sides by sides, our cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, Abeshas (so-called ethiopian) prostitutes, Bantuses, gulf Arab states’ terror expoeters & financiers, evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, white Americans, English people, their gulf Arab states’ terror exporters & paymasters, Dutches (so-called Afrikaans, Portuguese, Italians, Irish, gays, lesbians or LGBTQs, Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese,Bangladeshis or pieces of shits* That is not going then the sun or even million years. We are going to occupy Kenya, kill any rubbish that in central Kenya town of *Nanyuki, Laikipia, Nyahuru, Nyeri, Nairobi, Mombasa with white people, Arabs, white people anything that is connected evil juus (so-called) attack dogs. ‘all Kobils and Kenols’, will be destroyed, United nations environmental program,e, UNEP in Girgiri or Muthaiga, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM*

    *The vermins/parasites/viruses/pests are addicted to ‘living over the back of other people and their countries, and they thought, it is a good idea*

    The low lives, think we are their equal with their ‘Somalians’ who were used by Mr. Muigai Kenyatta and his successor, nyayo (foot step), mwaimu (teacher) Daniel T. Moi, were played games by *the devil worshipers, bloodsucking vampires, secret societies and cabals in the UK, then Dutch (so-called Afrikaans), the evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, Indians (then so-called indented slaves) and Arabs*

    In North East Kenya, where one of the biggest refugee camp is Dabab (one of the biggest refugee camp) in Garissa, Wajir up to Mandera, Somalian descent live there. Eastleigh, a 10 kilometers of away from downtown Nairobi. is inhabited by Somalian descents. *Eastleigh is to Nairobi as Manhattan is to New York*. Somalians are not South Sudanese people, equals, not in the the slightest *Black hawk down, black hawk, black hawk down, black down—-we are going crush you*

    ‘Shifta’ war in North East Kenya, is still going to today, Mr. Uhuru kenyatta a Bantus, piece of sewer, let his arse carried him away like his father and Mr. Daniel T. Moi. And heed his father’s devil worshipers, bloodsucking vampires, secret cabals who thought, Kenya is a country to be ‘taken seriously by others and thus should play a mercenary (role) in the region, *like Rwanda and Abesh (so-called ethiopia) prostitute*

    And on the 3/11/2011, Kenyan mercenaries (KDF) were sent to Somalia, but when and be ‘bunch of charcoal traders, in Somalia low lives. The Somalians rounded them up Garissa university and Killed them, it was cowardly act by the way the El Shababs, they killed the innocents people. But that is what is ‘terrorism is’. On the 21st of Sept. 2013, terrorists from Somalian background stomped ‘west gate shopping mall, in Westlands in Nairobi and killed innocent shoppers, on the 12/2/2019, another terrorism of happened in Nairobi, was staged by the ‘by El shabab allies in a hotel, in an up scale suburb of Lavington and innocent Kenyans were killed And on the 7//8/1998. over 200 innocent Kenyans were killed at former US Embassy and Mtihani (exam), KNEC innocent Kenyans were killed, and another simultaneous bombing was carried out in Dar El Salam, neighboring Tanzania, on the US embassy on the 7//081998.

    AFRICAN UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION, what do you piece of shit smoke?>>>>

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