Government needs to provide opportunities to South Sudanese in the tourism sector

The Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism seems to be redundant amid the huge untapped wildlife and tourism potential in the country. The underdevelopment of this critical sector capable of raking non-oil revenues for the economy could be largely due to insecurity and shortage of qualified manpower.

The Dawn newspaper on Tuesday run a story titled “South Sudanese university graduate making ends meet on a boda boda”. This particular story captured the hustle of Sadam Godfrey Bosco a graduate of wildlife conservation at the University of Juba who is now operating a commercial motorcycle to survive.

It brought questions on the fate of the wildlife and tourism sector, because many people wonder whether the country is properly utilizing some of it’s qualified nationals in the right places.

Bosco is working where he does not deserve and yet the place where his skills are supposed to be put to use seems detached from realities.

The national minister of wildlife conservation and tourism, Rizig Zackaria Hassen needs to seriously work out solutions to develop the wildlife and tourism sector.

The minister should scan the environment and understand the human resource available in the country to help propel this lucrative sector.

Apart from insecurity, the wildlife and tourism sector seems redundant and yet the economy is struggling to recover amid shortage of hard currency.