The Commissioner of Lobonok County, Lt. Col. Hon. Severino Gwerit Kose on Wednesday appealed to humanitarian actors for emergency relief aid for the displaced communities in Karpeto Buma, an area south of Yapa.

Hon. Severino Gwerit said that Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are facing a number of challenges which include lack of shelter, food and medicine.

“I am now appealing to humanitarian organizations to come and assist these people who have been displaced recently because they left their gardens; they fear to go back to cultivate because they have trauma.”

The Commissioner made this appeal during a meeting with UNMISS representatives who were returning from long Distant Patrol to Nyerling Village.

The IDPs are currently only receiving food aid from one agency and are urging other organisations to also provide support.  The Commissioner added that the IDPs were are in dire need of shelter, food, medicine, seeds and other essential agricultural tools to enable them to start farming to produce food for the next season.

Youth from the area have called on the government to intervene to find a solution to the current disputes between the local communities and the cattle keepers.

 “As youth of this area, we are asking the government to act on this; either these people quit from this area because cattle here are destroying our crops and caused fighting to ourselves,” said Murjak Samuel Lophoni.                                           

Earlier this year, about 150 people were displaced from Gadiang, Maremo and Kabala villages to Nyerling village after alleged clashes with cattle keepers’ in the area.