GOSS Suspends Work Of Eleven Contractors

10th March 2011 – (Khartoum) –The Government of Southern Sudan has suspended the work of eleven companies for allegedly possessing illegal documents for transporting IDP’s from the north to their homes of origin in the south.

The Deputy Chairman of S-S-R-R-C and Coordinator of the organized return program at the G-o-S-S Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Reverend William Chan spoke to SRS on Wednesday from Khartoum

[Rev. William Chan]: “Anybody to be given a contract for transporting returnees, the agreement must be signed with the approval of Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development in Juba. As I am talking to you now I have with me now contracts of eleven companies that were contracted to transport the I-D-P-s and did not do so. Anybody who is given a contract, the document must be signed by three people: one of our members of S-S-R-R-C, state coordinator and a chief representing a certain state. And also at any traffic check point.”

The decision to freeze up the contracts signed by eleven companies was reached during a meeting between the South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission and coordinators of the ten Southern states in Khartoum on Tuesday