Soi County, once a land of promise in the Sebei region, is now struggling under the weight of challenges no community should be left to endure. As the Sebei National Youth Movement, we cannot remain silent while our people suffer. What is happening in Soi is not a minor local issue. It is a regional emergency, a human rights concern, and a national failure that demands urgent action.
A Community Fighting for Basic Survival
A Health System on Its Knees
Across Soi County, families walk long distances just to reach a health centre that may not even have medicine, equipment, or enough staff. Mothers give birth in unsafe conditions. Children battle preventable illnesses with no medical support. The elderly suffer in silence because help is simply too far away.
These are not isolated hardships. They are daily realities. They represent a community abandoned in its hour of need. If a country is judged by how it protects its vulnerable, then the people of Soi have every reason to feel forgotten.
Young People Without Schools or Opportunity
Education in Soi County is hanging by a thread. Some communities have no secondary school at all. Children walk through flood-prone areas and insecure zones just to find a classroom. The few schools that exist are overwhelmed, understaffed, and under-resourced.
Every step a child takes on the road to school is a reminder of the effort required just to chase a dream. How many dreams have died because there are not enough classrooms? How many futures have been cut short by neglect?
Floods That Destroy Everything in Their Path
When the rains come, they bring fear. Families watch the rising waters destroy homes, wash away crops, drown livestock, and leave entire villages stranded. Families are forced into crowded temporary shelters with no protection from mosquitoes, no clean water, and no sanitation.
Floods in Soi are not just natural disasters. They are wounds that reopen year after year, pushing the community deeper into poverty and desperation.
Cattle Raiding: A Pain That Never Ends
Cattle raids continue to torment the people of Soi. Karamojong warriors attack without warning. Pokot raiders push into Sebei territory, stealing livestock that families depend on for school fees, food, and survival. Unfortunately government has never thought of compensating Sebei sub region just like the way they did for other regions.
A cow in Sebei is not just an animal. It is dignity. It is wealth. It is life.
When raiders steal cattle, they steal the very backbone of a household.
The emotional and economic trauma of repeated raids has left the community living in fear, night after night.
Land Grabbing: The Silent Disaster
Soi County is suffering a land crisis that grows worse by the day. River courses shift, boundaries blur, and opportunists exploit confusion. Families lose the land their ancestors lived on. Widows and vulnerable households are pushed out with no protection or justice.
To lose land is to lose identity, memory, security, and future.
This crisis has turned neighbours into enemies and left entire families displaced on their own soil.
Parliament Has Heard the Cry — But Government Has Not Acted
Despite repeated appeals by the area Member of Parliament, Hon. Kisos Chemaswet, who has tirelessly raised Soi County’s suffering on the floor of Parliament, nothing meaningful has been done.
His calls for better health services, improved roads, schools, security, and protection of land have been documented, debated, and echoed — yet implementation remains painfully absent.
It is now clear that government has successfully forgotten about Soi County.
A community cannot thrive on speeches alone.
A county cannot survive on promises that never turn into action.
People cannot live on hope without support.
Why the Sebei National Youth Movement Is Speaking Out
We speak because silence is dangerous.
We speak because our people are suffering.
We speak because Soi County deserves better than neglect, abandonment, and empty promises.
Soi is not asking for luxury.
It is asking for basic human dignity — healthcare, education, safety, land rights, and peace.
These are fundamental rights.
Not favours.
Not privileges.
Our Call to Leaders and Partners
We call on the Government of Uganda to take responsibility and deliver real, measurable action.
We call on Kween District authorities to prioritize Soi County in planning, budgeting, and service delivery.
We call on security agencies to protect our communities from cattle raiding.
We call on civil society and development partners to help rebuild resilience and restore dignity.
We call on the youth of Sebei to rise, unite, and defend their homeland with courage and solidarity.
Soi County Must Not Be Left Behind
This is the moment to act. This is the moment to stand up for the forgotten.
The suffering of Soi County has gone on long enough.
Enough fear.
Enough loss.
Enough silence.
Enough abandonment.
Together, we can change this story.
Together, we can bring justice to a community in pain.
Together, we can ensure that Soi County rises again.
Sebei National Youth Movement
Committed to justice.
Committed to our people.
Committed to Soi county.
