The Boma Chief of Moli in Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State says the newly received returnees are in dire need of humanitarian aid.
Chief Margret Oliver told Radio Emmanuel on Friday that the area has been receiving a number of households’ members returning from different camps in Uganda starting from August 2021 until February.
She tells about 20 heads of families were registered from January to February 2022 but these people lack assistance like food, shelter and other basic needs.
“Until now people who have come from there are 20 heads of families, some came from Pagirinya, some from Uwachi and there some people who came from the site of Juba who return back home to people who have come back but they did not get anything unless. Those who come in the first in the Month of August, September and October CARITAS have registered them where they have got some Sorghums and Beans their condition is very bad because since they have arrive there is nothing given to them, if the neighbour give them something like flour in the cup that can be mingle as the porridge there were some items that have remain few like four bags then we look like that these are people who look few that is why we have distributed to them in small quantity at the moment there is nothing to them there is someone who rescue them”, the chief explains.
Chief Margret says the returnees are coming back to South Sudan due to the difficult situation they are facing in camps includes, lack of food, no space for cultivation and, lack of good education among others.
She says others say they have the spirit of staying in their own motherland where they will be buried.
“I have asked them others say the ratio of food that they were receiving is now reduce and also there is no place for them to cultivate, that is why they think to come back home so that they can cultivate and as the school is functioning their children will go to school and learn this is what they have told me like there is the old woman who have 85 years old that why she think good even if death is getting her, let get her at home because there she always getting sick that is why she came with her children”, Margret reported.
Moli Boma is situated along Juba-Nimule highway in Magwi County, Eastern Equatoria that has faced a lot of depopulation during the 2016 conflict that caused thousands of citizens fled in to the neighbouring Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia and others to seek for refuge