{"id":7432,"date":"2022-07-11T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=7432"},"modified":"2022-07-10T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:33:49","slug":"south-sudanese-misinformed-on-dredging-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/south-sudanese-misinformed-on-dredging-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudanese misinformed on dredging, Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister in the Office of the President (L)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Akol Madut Ngong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minister of Presidential Affairs Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin said the people of South Sudan were misinformed about the planned dredging of the Nile and its tributaries and the Jonglei Canal project rumored resumption. He made the statement during the launch of public consultations on the Nile waters issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sudd Wetlands and the White Nile Water resources Development and Management Initiative launched a five days public consultantation awareness campaign under the theme: No Life without Water\u201d: Develop and Manage the White Nile Water Resources and the Sudd Wetlands Sustainably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public awareness campaign has been divided into five categorizes, which include; Youth, Ministers, Lawmakers, National and International experts, these will share their ideas on the issue of water management<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Minister of Presidential Affairs, Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin said people of South Sudan were misinformed on dredging of the Nile and digging of Jonglei canal which caused controversial concerns to the government and the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Barnaba spoke yesterday during the launch of five days public awareness campaign on the issues of dredging the Nile, its tributaries and the digging of Jonglei canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople were misinformed, it was diffused wrongly, we were talking about the removable of trees in the rivers and Nile itself, we didn\u2019t talk about digging of Jonglei canal\u201d Dr. Barnaba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are very proud because water is life, what generated this public awareness campaign and people where scared, <\/strong>what generate ideas that the issue of dredging was going to be a resolution to the issue of the flooding\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis public awareness campaign needs people with knowledge to tell us about our water; it is not a political issue nor need activists. Now it has gone a little beyond, we need information from experts who understand and who also know the interest of the people of South Sudan, so they will be able to share knowledge\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like to assure you that, don\u2019t take our government easy, our government, there are people with knowledge and education, anything to be done, is to inform citizens with knowledge who are the people of South Sudan at large, you have to wait, this is a government sitting until that time comes, this is a public awareness discussion with an input,\u201d Dr Marial stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe expert who have knowledge about the water specifically about the White Nile and its tributaries in the Republic of South Sudan, this public awareness is very important on the issue of public interest, resources and preservation of our resources, \u201cwater is a resource as almighty has given to us\u201d it is you, you should have to continue with discussion until you come out with standard report\u201d said the Presidential Affairs Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He underlined that the flooding which happened in many States including; Jonglei, Warrap, Upper Nile, Unity and other parts of the country, flood happened everywhere, most towns are threatened to be washed out by water, stressing that they should reduce the danger of that water spreading to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Barnaba said they have many rivers in this country that give, fresh water availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2008, the Nile reportedly become very shallow because of a lot of deposits that have been going into the Nile and as a result of that, ship where not able to reach Juba because of blockages and they stop at Mangalla, they can\u2019t come to Juba because there has been a lot of sediment that has filled it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Akol Madut Ngong The Minister of Presidential Affairs Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin said the people of South Sudan were misinformed about the planned dredging of the Nile and its tributaries and the Jonglei Canal project rumored resumption. He made the statement during the launch of public consultations on the[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7434,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}