Torit State Governor appeals to South Sudanese to work for peace, stability and economic growth to overcome the country’s numerous challenges.
Alberio Tobiolo Oromo says it is time to create conducive environment for jobs and investment opportunities for citizens in the next transitional period, Radio Emmanuel reports.
He calls for the need to work hard to produce and export goods instead of depending on foreign aid.
‘I urge every South Sudanese especially the people of Torit State to be aware that the best way to overcome the challenges we are facing as a new nation is peace, stability and economic growth. We must work for peace and together, we will achieve it’ says Governor Tobiolo.
‘At the moment, is not the question of who will be in the political position in the next revitalized government of national or state government? It is rather, how we create a peaceful and stable environment, where new jobs and investment take root in this state and in South Sudan as a whole. It is not depending on oil and foreign aid alone that can sustain the economic progress in our country, but how much we produce or ourselves and export’,. he clarifies.
Governor Tobiolo stresses that South Sudan economy requires serious actions to improve the situation.
‘Dear country men and women of South Sudan, the state of our economic calls for action. There is need to re-build our roads and bridges that will fit our commerce and bind us together. We need to raise quality health care through training and need to transform our education to meet the demands through more trainings and increasing of teacher’s salaries’, the governor urges.
He appeals that ‘as a nation, we must work hard to transform this political independence into social and economic independence. As a nation, we must work together with our neighbors to maintain regional and international peace and stability’.
Tobiolo calls for cooperation with neighboring countries to maintain national regional, and international peace and stability.
Torit state governor made the remarks to journalists in a press statement during South Sudan’s 8th independence anniversary