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KAPOETA; WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
To start, in the first frame was our newly built house and compound for the boys. The second one is its complete demolition. It is nowhere near the market, but let's move on.
Three years ago, the Kapoeta municipality released a notice asking those who had shops in locations not demarcated to relocate, as the mayor wanted to expand the town and the market.
It's true that the demolished land wasn't demarcated. Let's accept that. It is also true that those who have been living there were Dinka and Nuer. Don't rush to tribalism, I am not finished yet.
Now, when the notice was released in 2023, the leader of these people welcomed the announcement and went to the then-Mayor's office to ask for a way forward.
Two things were discussed.
1. The people given notice are residents of Kapoeta and the founders of the kapoeta market. They can not refuse to leave the undemarcated land. The only thing they are asking is for the municipality to find them a demarcated land they can relocate to.
2. If the municipality had nowhere to relocate them, it was welcome to demarcate that land, with people living in it, open roads, and ask those people to improve their structures to reflect what is in accordance with the law of the Kapoeta municipality.
Well, the municipality's first answer to these easy demands was that, there was no demarcation and selling of land going on right now and so they have nowhere to relocate the population of the people they want to demolish their structures.
Now, Junubin, what's one supposed to do when you get those types of answers?
In those three years, the mayor has been changed like 4 times.
Currently, the men, women, elderly, boys, girls, and children whose houses and compounds were demolished are gathered at the Singaita church. Those who are okay financially are living in lodges or have relocated to either kakuma or Juba.
Recently, they wanted to relocate them to a place called Locheliel behind Lodingding. If you have been in kapoeta, then you know what I am talking about.
The toposa elders at that place told the mayor that they are not refusing if the town has developed up to their land but you don't demolish people's structures and have no place ready to relocate them into.
He further asked, who was going to take the land these people used to live in. The mayor had no answer.
So now, as SSOX understands this, yes, the demolished land had Dinka and Nuer on it. That's not tribalism; that's where they have been living for a long time before the Kapoeta municipality moved to them.
It is also the municipality's right to demolish structures in areas they deem undemarcated, demarcate them, and expand the town.
The news that went out that Toposa is demolishing Dinka and Nuer houses or shops was a journalistic clickbait.
This only becomes a Dinka-Nuer and Toposa problem when the structures are demolished and they are not shown to other places where they can stay.
Now, Amule, this is the scenario and my house has been demolished and the municipality has not given me a demarcated land even if it is in the middle of the forest for me to build in, where do you expect me to sleep? On the road?
Dau Barnabas@Durieth_JM
Tomorrow, I will be free to give an update on what really happened in Kapoeta and how it is progressing right now, as I have been here in Kapoeta for the last three days. See you tomorrow at 8 am.
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