Youth in Torit on Sunday called on parties to the Revitalized Peace Agreement to restore security, peace and stability in the nation.
Orupi David Uywek, Torit state acting youth leader says parties should commit themselves to peace and development, Radio Emmanuel reports.
He points out that issue of security arrangement still remains the major challenge to the implementation of peace agreement.
‘This is a big challenge to us dear youth to protect and restore security peace and stability hence protect the revitalized peace agreement although it moves in a slow progress. I would like to thank honorable Tobiolo Alberio Oromo Governor Torit State for channeling voices to the national government. To the parties in the revitalize peace agreement to address the issue of security arrangement which remains the obstacle towards the implementation of the peace agreement so that our people return from the refugees camps so that together we can improve our economy’, David appeals.
Angela Bernardino, Chairperson for Women Association in Torit State says, the country needs to remember Torit mutineers who sacrificed their lives for South Sudan’s independence
‘People should remember the origin of the struggle in South Sudan, we are now independent because there was resistance and an alarm that contributed to the liberation of this country and among those who contributed to the struggle include Franco who made a resistance here in Torit at the age of 16 years and later died after an accident with Salah’, she reminds.
Torit State Governor Tobiolo Alberio Oromo in his closing remark tasks youth to resist being misled by politicians, but fight for their rights.
He call on South Sudanese to peacefully solve their differences.
‘You need to campaign for your own unity and avoid being misuse, you need to safe your lives and safe this country, because without you youth nobody will go to the bush. You need to talk strongly to your colleagues in the whole country to abandon that spirit of aggressiveness, you need to come together as a new generation to unite yourself, when you unite, we also the fathers and mothers behind you will also unite ourselves because in any Family that have conflict, if the Father is fighting his wife and the children came in the middle immediately they will stop that conflict’, he says.
The officials were speaking during the Torit Mutiny commemoration at Torit Freedom Square on Sunday.
The Mutiny took place on August 18, 1955 in Torit that resulted to Anya nya movement led by General Joseph Lagu.