Local chiefs and youth leaders in Boma State have agreed to end cattle rustling activities by improving relations with neighboring communities, a local official said.
Boma’s minister of local government Abraham Natabo Nyitaak told Radio Tamazuj on Friday that the Murle community held a four-day consultative meeting in Pibor town where traditional leaders and youth resolved to end rampant cattle rustling.
He pointed out that the community on Thursday pledged to engage in peace activities with neighbors.
“There were 100 participants including 6 people from Jonglei who were observers. They were drawn from Pibor, Verthet, Gumuruk and Lekuangole,” Natabo said.
The participants said guns should be silenced and child abductions should stop immediately,” he added.
The communities of Jonglei, Bieh, Akobo and their neighbors in Boma State have for long been wrangling leading to cattle raids and child abductions.