Customs clearance agents in Nimule town in Eastern Equatoria state announced that they will resume their work today after they went on strike yesterday stranding hundreds of trucks at the border checkpoint between South Sudan and Uganda.

The Nimule Clearance Agencies’ Union staged a strike saying that the customs authorities in Nimule were collecting taxes illegally.

In a statement to the newly launched Al Maugif newspaper in Juba, the legal advisor of clearance agencies Gabriel Goum said that they met with a committee dispatched by the national Ministry of Finance and the national Customs Services.

He noted they agreed to resume work after the committee promised that they will remove all the hurdles facing them at the border.  

President of the clearance agencies in Nimule, Bartholomew Riak, told Miraya FM yesterday that the reason for their strike was “illegal collection of money being made by the customs officers without any receipt given to the agents.”

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