The returnees in Kerepi Boma of Pageri County in Torit State lack basics services in the area.
Speaking to Radio Emmanuel, Boma Chief Sebit Makmui says returnees are facing severe hunger and economic hardships.
He adds more than hundred returnees are confirmed to have arrived in Pageri County on voluntary return since December last year.
‘The people who have come from the camp in my area side from Acwa to Kerepi will reach about 133 people, they came back on their own will because the situation is bad and others are coming back without children because also the situation of this country is bad too due to hunger and live is hard’, he disclosed.
The chief also cited lack of education and health services as a major problem hindering returnees in the area.
‘The issue of houses has affected them, hunger and also no school, there is no hospital and it is only for emergencies, there is no place where a person can be admitted. The hospital is there just near my area, but they just put it for emergencies and even sector of maternity room is not there, totally there is nothing. The farms they had planted last year are destroyed too by preying birds now hunger has struck them so much which has made them lose hope’, he pointed out.
Sebit call upon state and national governments and humanitarian agencies to intervene in supporting the returning population in the area.
The speaker was talking to Radio Emmanuel on a telephone interview on Wednesday in Kerepi Boma of Pageri County in Torit State.