Top police general decries lack of staff at border points  

JUBA – South Sudan’s Assistant Inspector General for Border Police, General Olaw Adiang has decried understaffing of border police, lack of infrastructure, and accommodation at border points.

“Border police has its own challenges it is under staff, it is lacking basic infrastructure, office, accommodation equipment transportation and even well train manpower,” Adiang said validation workshop on Comprehensive Migration Policy in Juba on Tuesday.

Gen. Adiang called on the government and its partners to strengthen border police.

“We call upon our stakeholders and other government institution to jump in and help in strengthening border police because without proper border police we will have a lot of problems in managing migration policy inside and outside,” he said.

He said the border police find challenging to deal with the overlap of duties between different organized forces at border points.

“We have an overlap of duties between border police, customs, SSPDF, National Security and Directorate of Nationality Passport and Immigration,” he said.

“South Sudan has its own challenges, being it the very large country with vast borders and with neighbors infested with conflict and internal problems we have no institutions to help us.”

He disclosed that South Sudan has a large border that is not well guarded and it is porous with a lot of problems.

“We have conflict within our borders in Sudan and we have our own internal problem that delays our development. We have now 12 years since independence,” he said.

“One of the priorities is border management, through the necessity of having integrated border management system, and defense mechanism of this country is border police. We need don’t to have an effective, efficient, and well equip border police.”