The mayor of Torit municipality Juliana Momoi Coho cautioned the public against alcoholism.
According to her, alcoholism has become the common interest of lazy people and leisure which mislead the future of generations to come in South Sudan.
Speaking to Radio Emmanuel the mayor says a good number of South Sudan youth have put themselves in alcoholism.
‘Taking Alcoholism in the state or South Sudan has become common interest of people, but not everybody. I look at it as it is those lazy characters there who cannot sustain themselves and they find it is easier to end in drinking rather than doing some job to sustain them, she notes.
‘The drinking of alcohol has become very common even with the youth around you can see their health they look very unhealthy and to me as a mother when I always see them I feel very painful to me and I begin to wonder though this children their parents are around what do they really tell them do they go to school or they were just dropout because they have just involved themselves in to drinks’, she asks.
The Mayor expresses her pains over the majority of South Sudan youth whose lives remain unhealthy due to negligence of some parents who don’t control children.
She says the number of street children has gradually improved in Torit town after the municipality put measures to control under age at public places.
‘Comparing to the situation now it seems there is some little improvement because I use to see children lingering around the town taking this shisa, now the number has increased so I don’t see them even around moving’, the mayor notes.
Momoi advises the youth to stop alcohol drinks and focus on their vision in life.
‘My advice to our children that, please stop this alcoholic drinks and begin to see what is your vision, what is your life, what life do you want, what do you want to improve the life of your children, you take yourself what you want to be like and what your children should be like’ she appealed.
The Mayor made the remarks to Radio Emmanuel in an inclusive interview on Monday.