Security personnel should be deployed around the butchers, selling points of roasted meat along the streets, and the whole country. But to start with screening the capital city, Juba, it is good to know what citizens are going through in these hard times.
Security should monitor what type of meat is sold to the people—is it cow meat, goat meat, and many others—before the poor citizens are forced to eat what is not right. Not only that, but to check all the sensitive issues in the country, just water tanks—are they clean to supply water or are the water tanks rusted or not—to put human life in good condition.
Imagine dogs are now slaughtered in town to be sold to the people in the country, yet it is a food taboo in our communities in South Sudan. This is very bad, and it should not be tolerated in the country. Whoever is caught selling dog meat in the country should be arrested to face the law. However, if they think dogs are medicine or good meat in other countries, the vendors should go and sell it where it is needed.
The economy of our country has been in distress for nearly decades now, and the way ahead is still murky. The institutions overseeing the state of the economy have been trying to fix some things, but their efforts appear to be not succeeding in addressing the situation. This is being manifested in the weaknesses of pounds, with the current trends ranging from 4,200 to 4,900 South Sudan pound per dollar.
The economy is basically the resources and wealth of the country, which are turned into production and, at the end, consumption in terms of goods and services. And it’s the systematic or cautious management of the resources available in the country. As such, monetary value comes into play to measure the standards of the goods and services in order to acquire them; hence, the supply of money in the hands of people and public treasury or accounts aligned with economic policy and other laws.
This serious economic hardship is the one forcing out silly businesses like selling the dog’s meat. This is because it’s very difficult to start up credible investments in the country, and people are forced to do anything for survival.
But if found out that the dog’s meat is sold by a foreigner, it should be treated as a deportation case. This country has been going through a lot of crises since it gained its independence.
I appeal to the security of this country to work hand in hand with the Ministry of Animal Resources and Fisheries to check whatever is sold to the people and make sure it is good for consumption, and the ministry to work hard in improving the Butches to international standards so that it reduces imported meat to the country.
God protect South Sudan.
Until We Meet!