An agency in charge of transporting returnees’ properties from Kosti to South Sudan has denied that it refused to bring the luggage from over 400 returnees to South Sudan.
On Tuesday, a group of returnees met Central Equatoria information minister and gender and social welfare deputy minister to present their worries over their belongings stored by the Gospel Message Ministry in Kosti.Returnees team leader Oliver Martin told Bakhita Radio that they were worried because there is no contact between the owners and the Gospel Message Ministry leadership that has been taken twice to prison over returnees’ luggage in Kosti.
Gospel Message Ministry Director Samson Khamis said the returnees should be patient because their belongings are safe in the stores in Kosti.
He added that they will be transported to South Sudan as soon as the organization gets funds from donors and the transport by barge resumes.
Mr Khamis called on the Government not to accept information from returnees without consulting the accused party.
He assured the public and the property owners that their property is safe in a store in Kosti.
Stans Yata, SSRC-Central Equatoria, told Bakhita Radio yesterday that his office is not concerned with private deals and the those returnees should follow their case using legal means.
OIM, the International Organization for Migrations, announced yesterday that it concluded a 24-day airbridge of 79 flights carrying 11,840 stranded South Sudanese in Kosti from Khartoum to Juba.
Their belongings were stored in Kosti to be brought by barge to Juba.