A Civil Society Activist in Eastern Equatoria State Mr. Oryema Emmanuel is calling on the transition government to deploy the graduated unified forces.
He says their deployment will help improve security in the country. Last year South Sudan graduated the first batch of Unified forces including army officers, police, and national security organs.
The activist warned that soldiers who graduated without assignment could be forced to commit an evil act in society.
“These forces up to now did not get assignments and this is a very bad sign, so some of us are telling the Revitalized Transitional Government of National unity they have to make sure this mandate is fulfilled.
he says the National army is very important and they should be given assignments because without assignments they become redundant.
“They are not being trained for nothing, they are supposed to be given their responsibility, especially those who are called the national army, so that it will protect the whole nation,” he added.
Mr. Oryema criticized the government for not using an arms embargo as an excuse that delay the deployment. He encourages the authorities to use the available weapons to deploy the army in their respective duty stations
“I know there is a complaint of this issue of arms embargo saying they don’t have the arms and aminations to equip the forces.”
Activists warned that South Sudan can suffer from external aggression if the national army is not deployed to protect the country’s territorial integrity.
South Sudan graduated more than 20 thousand Necessary Unified Forces (NUF) on 30 August last year.
They are being formed by retraining rebel and pro-government fighters into military, police, and security personnel