In Atbara… history, new life and workers crying for help – Mawazanat – ✍️ Al-Tayeb Al-Makabrabi
When we were students at the old Atbara Public School, Atbara was the railway, the market, the neighborhood and a few neighborhoods inhabited by workers who cycled all over the city. It was the second largest city in Africa after Johannesburg in terms of area. number of bikes, from what we've heard…
Today you won't find a place as a man in this city and you won't be able to ride a bike or drive a bike no matter how good you are.
Overcrowding of everything. . People, buildings, goods, cars, patients, clinics, restaurants, cafes, breakfast and criers with what they carry.
Everyone and everything here is looking for a place to stay, but all they find is crowds and traffic jams…
As part of a series of visits by the Khartoum Media Association to Nile State, under the title “Know your country”, yesterday it was the turn of the locality of Atbara, which welcomed us with open arms despite the groans under the weight of this situation. crowd. We were welcomed by its executive director, Ibn al-Labib, who reflected in his speech the best understanding of a media executive, the extent of its importance and how to benefit from it.
Our next stop was history… the history of the railway which began on the Wadi Halfa Akasha line in 1873, now the Turkish era…
A church building which was purchased in the early sixties of the last century today comprises a sequential history of the Sudanese Railways, from which it appears that this city and this body have and still have workers and engineers qualified, from what we saw at the time. design, packaging and assembly of wagons since the 1950s…
This group, in this city that is noisy with others and was noisy with them and would not be noisy without them, today suffers from neglect and poor conditions and complains to the earth about the injustice of man towards his neighbor…
We met a number of these people…workers, clerks, and engineers, all of whom were patient and responsible, raising their affairs before the Lord of Heaven…
Who would believe that among these people there are many whose salary does not exceed twenty-four thousand pounds??
The highest salary of those we met was ninety-six thousand pounds, which is a high position level…
They complain about the neglect that has befallen their facilities due to politicians and interventions by stakeholders, including those with money and transport companies, which has affected them. They have been neglected in a world where the pace of modernization and dependency is accelerating. railways for the transport of goods and passengers.
They gave examples of their ability to succeed, and they also gave examples of their inability to save the lives of their loved ones due to limited means, some of which they sometimes overcome by pooling everything they have to remedy to a situation…
The new budget is fast approaching, and the condition of these people is a responsibility before God in the day of greatest situation, and their condition and complaints make hearts weep and weep. Hope is placed on the leaders of Sudan. The Railways Authority, the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Head of State, represented by those who oversee this sector, that each will fulfill their responsibility before God by addressing the issue of the salaries of these people and reducing them. slogan “There is no alternative to the railway except the railway and the rebuilding of this revenue facility…
God help everyone
