Kajo Keji County elder serving as Central Equatoria State Cabinet Affairs Minister believes bloody border clashes between Kuku and Ma’di of Moyo District in Uganda had not broken their social fabric.
Professor Scopas Jibi Dima said the ongoing fracas between Kuku and Ma’di communities is non-comparable to previous traditional tribal wars between the two reconciled later on by marriage and cooperation.
He believes the quarrel between the two bordering communities would be forgotten of once it is discontinued.
Professor Jibi calls for compensation of lost property and punishment for perpetrators to pave way for communities’ reconciliation and counseling to normalize relations.
The elderly Minister appeals to local and international communities for humanitarian assistance to estimated eight thousand displaced victims of South Sudan-Uganda border conflict including women, children and the elderly forced to Kajo Keji.
Professor Jibi and other community leaders begged compatriots not to let the victims suffer.
The elder asserted that South Sudan-Uganda border was not demarcated since Sudan’s independence in 1956 and Uganda’s in 1962.
Professor Jibi added that the border line was only marked near Moyo Mission adjacent to a borehole next to Kuku Chief Busu’s graveyard at his ancestral land.
He highlighted that the famous Kuku Matat Busu or Chief Busu in English was buried in Kuku land, not Uganda’s.
Professor Jibi said he discussed ways to calm down tensions between Kajo Keji County of South Sudan and Moyo District of Uganda as technical delegation works on border demarcation.