The deputy speaker of Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly attributes the various challenges facing voter registration to lack of civic awareness.
Daniel Awit told journalists in Torit that civic society organizations that were entrusted to educate people for the referendum and should be blamed for the challenges.Mr. Awit, who is touring different states of Southern Sudan, said the voter registration is being hampered by lack of information, amalgamation of the previous election centres and long distances between referendum centres.
The deputy speaker urged members of every constituency to bridge the information gap, especially along the Acholi corridor of Eastern Equatoria.
In Kapoeta East, people had to travel for 20 to 35 kilometres to register.
Eastern Equatoria state also faces challenges of tracing pastoralist communities who travel from one area to another to search of grass and water for their animals.
GoSS provided political parties, referendum taskforces and civil society groups with more than 80 million Sudanese pounds to conduct referendum mobilization campaigns both in the whole country and abroad.