Trucks of Low-Cost Food Heads to Kuajok

By Awan Achiek

Trucks filled with food which prices are low are heading to Kuajok, the capital of Warrap State.

A first consignment of 10 trucks loaded with over 10,000 sacks of assorted food commodities left Juba on Thursday.

“As for the food items, being facilitated by the company called GALDA, company limited, and it is purchased to the state government and to the state food operators, so that this food subsidized,” William Wol Mayom, Warrap State Minister of Information told The Dawn by phone yesterday.

He said the food items include sorghum and maize flour and will be sold to people in the six counties of Warrap State at a subsidized price.

According to Mayom, Kuol Muor Muor, the Governor of Warrap State, contracted GALDA national company to supply the State with the food.

“It is being contracted by the state government to subsidize the price and of course,” Mayom said.

“It will be sold at a subsidized price across the states, the counties of Warrap and headquarters,” he said.

 “The income that is supposed to be on top of the price shall be cut by the state government and the subsidized pay shall be returned back to the company, the GALDA Company.”

Mayom said the program will reduce hunger in Warrap.

 “It will actually be once because when we reach this month of July to August, we would be sure that the local produce shall be ready and the issue of people looking for food in the markets shall be over,” he said.

“So we are doing it to bridge the gap of hunger.”