Good Evening Its 5 O Clock I M David Lukan

NEWS BULLETIN SCRIPT 星期日, 六月 03, 2018

5 June 2015 Good evening its 5 o’clock I’m David Lukan

The Headlines

 Government to reintroduce coins

 Youth attack Police post in Rumbek, kill 7 security forces

 Wau airport limits flights as repairs on runway take off

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The government has resolved to re-introduce coins.

The Council of Ministers in its regular sitting this afternoon, agreed that the currency be reintroduced in July.

This was after the Council listened to a report by the Central Bank Governor that indicated that coins would normalize market prices and make it easier for people to afford commodities.

The report also indicated that coins are easier to maintain compared to paper money.

Cabinet Affairs Minister Elia Lomuro spoke to journalists after the meeting.

Clip…………………………………Elia 1 “The council discussed thoroughly on the development, design and logo that these coins carry and that is the 50, 20 and 10 coins. The logo for Greater Equatoria is right and Greater Barh el Ghazal as well. However the logo for greater Upper Nile is to be revisited because what they did is put in the oil pipeline for oil exploration and that does not reflect the traditional symbols that represent Greater Upper Nile. The currencies used to suffer – especially the 5 pound note used to suffer from tornage [wear and tear], especially in the villages. “

The Council in its sitting has also confirmed renewed fighting between government and opposition forces in Unity State.

The fighting started this morning in the Panakuach area and was still continuing by this afternoon.

Regional leaders are expected to meet with opposition leader Riek Machar as a step towards realizing the full implementation of the Arusha intra-party agreement.

The proposed meeting follows this week’s visit to Juba by a group of 5 former political detainees that saw a recommitment to the agreement.

The Arusha peace agreement that was signed in January, covers party related issues, while the Addis Ababa peace process is focused on governance and security arrangements.

Speaking on Radio Miraya earlier today, acting SPLM party Secretary General, Anne Itto says implementation of the Arusha accord can still go ahead without the presence of the opposition.

Clip…………………….Itto agreement 2 “I believe the former detainees and the SPLM in government can actually begin the reforms in the security sector, call workshops and experts to look at our economy, issues of corruption and tribalism it is not going to wait until they come but fortunately our friends CCM the ruling party in Tanzania, the Africa National Congress in South Africa, EPDRF in Ethiopia and also NRM in Uganda all have agreed to bring Dr Riek to a meeting because it makes it easier for people to talk in Addis if they have agreed on some very basic principles.”

The acting Secretary General also said the party leadership in Juba is willing to make concessions in the interest of peace.

Seven security officers have been killed in an attack by armed youth on a Police post in Akot town, Rumbek East County – of Lakes state.

State security advisor Marial Amoum Malek says extra deployments have been sent to the town.

Amoum Malek says the youth were acting in retaliation to a previous incident in which another group of youth exchanged gunfire with a group of soldiers during a road ambush.

Clip………………………… Amoum Malek Police 3 “What happened in Akot yesterday was a continuation of a hostile attack by the hostile armed youth. They went and attacked the Police station, killing our Police and soldiers who were there. Four of them were killed and 3 wounded heroes who were also attached to the Police to help them in enforcing law and protecting civilians were killed. This is what happened, a total of 7 soldiers were killed in that incident and one is injured and is in hospital.”

Meanwhile, the death toll from yesterday’s road ambush in Akot has risen from 8 to 11.

Security advisor Marial Amoum Malek says authorities have confiscated the cattle of youth suspected to have been involved in the ambush.

Clip……………………….. Amoum Malek cattle 4 ‘It is the youth from the cattle camp that stopped the car, so we will seize their cattle their till they tell us actually who was mobilizing and for what purpose and what course, it is until we got those involved that is where now, we will leave their cattle, they go with cattle and we take those individual who are involved that is what we are trying to do if not we will keep their cattle.”

A new counseling center for victims of Gender Based Violence has been opened at Juba Teaching Hospital.

The two fabricated rooms will serve as a private space where victims get support, treatment and counseling.

The center has been stocked with drugs for emergency response and has internet connection to allow for proper archiving and storage of information.

The facility was constructed with support from the UN population fund, UNFPA at a cost of 25-thousand US dollars. Caroline Nya-mayembe is a Gender Based Violence expert with UNFPA.

Clip………………….Caroline Nyamayembe 5 “Those rooms offers an opportunity for survivors to be seen in private, they are also equipped and stocked with the relevant drugs that survivors require when thy report within 72 hour or when they report with a sexually transmitted infections which will shore up even beyond the 72 hours. The Counselling center is specifically important in that it is now going to enable the social workers were previously staying in one room. There are four social workers that are deployed in this hospital by the Central Equatoria State, Ministry of Gender ,Child and social Development.so you can imagine how constrain in providing services in a Safe and ethical way.”

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The ministry of environment has urged the public to overcome total dependency on forestry resources.

During an event to mark the world environment day in Juba, the minister of Environment Deng Deng Hoc said people should transition to using renewable and more sustainable sources of energy.

Radio Miraya’s Susan Dokolo attended the event and filed this report.

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The world environment day celebrated under the theme resource efficiency sustainable consumption and production attracted young people from various schools, companies and government officials in Juba.

Speaking at the celebrations, the national minister of environment, Deng Deng Hoc said it is the legal duty and moral obligation of every citizen to protect the environment and conserve natural resources.

Deng reiterated the need for effective waste management. He also used the opportunity to remind the citizens on recently introduced bans on smoking in public, illegal cutting of trees and use of the dangerous potassium bromate compound commonly used in baking.

Roll clip………………………… Deng Deng Hoc “Some of us are using solar energy which is good, we need to be using also Biogas and hydro power as well in order to ensure we graduate from sources that pollute the environment, those that generate greenhouse gases which are the main cause of climate change.”

Radio Miraya caught up with students and asked them how best the environment should be protected.

Roll clip………………………VoX Pops (Both Eng&Arb)

The National event was graced with the presence of beauty queen Lees Garcia – the reigning Miss Grand International based in Thailand. I am Susan Dokolo for Radio Miraya News.

Flights in and out of Wau airport in Western Barh el Ghazal are being limited, as renovation work on the airport runway kicks off.

The work includes tarmacking and extending the runway to more than 3,000 meters. Daniel Nial, the airport manager says the airport will remain open to normal flights on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, while only helicopters will be allowed to land and take off on the remaining days.

Clip………………Daniel Nial 7

“The minister of transport came to Wau last week and commissioned the last layer pavement and runway extension. So we will be operational during Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We will give Helicopters during closed days. You know Wau Airport was built since 2012 and has now started to pave and extend the runway to three thousand and three hundred meters (3,300), meaning it will make it to be one of the biggest Airports in South Sudan next to Juba.”

Staying in Western Barh el Ghazal, up to 20,000 bags of grain have been brought into the state to ease the impact of food shortages.

The ten thousand bags of maize flour and ten thousands bags of sorghum will be sold in markets at reasonable prices.

The items were imported by Trinity Company, a private company contracted by the national government. Makuen Wol Akol, the company’s manager says some of the items will be taken to Warrap State.

And, as the world commemorates World Environment Day today, governments are being called on to take steps towards ensuring sustainable consumption and production.

This year’s theme is focused on ensuring practical ways of making better use of land, to feed a growing global population.

Moun-kaila Gouma-ndakoye is the Africa Director for the UN Environmental Program - UNEP.

He says UNEP is providing policy support and capacity building to African countries in the transition to green economies.

To end the news, here are the headlines once again

 Government to reintroduce coins

 Youth attack Police post in Rumbek, kill 7 security forces

 Wau airport limits flights as repairs on runway take off

And that’s Radio Miraya News.

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