A number of Sudanese traders on Sunday gathered in front of the national parliament in Khartoum to present a complaint for lawmakers to intervene and help them retrieve their properties that were seized by officials in the government of South Sudan.
The traders presented a petition to the parliament asking it to put more pressure on the government in Juba to implement judicial rulings to reclaim their properties worth a total of 20 million USD.
In their petition, the traders pointed that they have decided to take their complaint to the parliament because all government institutions in South Sudan refuse to listen to them.
Ahmed al-Tijani, chairman of justice and human rights in the parliament, said after receiving the petition that they will follow the case and promised to contact the ministry of foreign affairs to coordinate on how to deal with the complaint.
Sudanese traders have complained that after indpendence their properties were seized by leaders of South Sudan’s ruling party, the SPLM, in Central Equatoria state, including by current vice president James Wani Igga.
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