Central Equatoria State’s Kajo-Keji County reports an invasion of about thirty-eight thousand cattle herds now occupying Nyepo, Liwolo and Lire Payams at the onset of rainy season.
Kajo-Keji County Information Inspector Beden Elikana Kenyi told CRN on Wednesday that invading cattle herders from Bor County of Jonglei State are settling in Lori, Gödöru, Liwolo and Kala areas without any sign of leaving.
He discloses that area State Parliament and community members are expected to question the herders’ presence at the scenes on Thursday to find what they are all up to.
Mr Elikana adds that the Kajo-Keji County administration was made speechless and indecisive with the outnumbering cattle herds.
The Information Inspector also discloses a different incident where Kajo-Keji community is pressurizing Uganda’s Moyo District to return 17 cattle raided recently along South Sudan-Uganda disputed border areas.
The demand follows return of 46 cattle to Kajo-Keji out of 62 raided in recent days.
Central Equatoria State Members of Parliament last week expressed fury over the ungoverned armed cattle herders’ movement in the country.
They demand catlle quick departure from the state to diffuse potential violence outbreak among crop growing natives.