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Calm returns to GPAA after youth protest Boyoi’s removal: Official

Author: Darlington Moses | Published: January 17, 2025

Youth protest in Pibor. (Photo: Courtesy).

The government of Greater Pibor Area said calm has returned to the capital after hundreds of people staged a demonstration on Thursday demanding reinstatement of the relieved chief administrator Gola Boyoi Gola.

Mr. Boyoi – a former chairperson of national youth union – was appointed in April 2024 and relieved on Wednesday in a Presidential Decree that named Peter Gazulu as his replacement.

This resulted in demonstration involving youth, women and children who matched to the streets of Pibor town rejecting the removal of the administrator on Thursday.

However, GPAA information minister Jacob Werchum said calm has been restored in the area after security organs intervened and dispersed the demonstrators by firing live bullets in the air.

“The demonstrators were angry. They said a moment they brought a leader who works toward development and security issues in the area all of a sudden, he is removed by the central government,” he said.

“They were demanding the reinstatement of the chief administrator to come and implement some of the developmental projects that he has launched, like the issue of security that he harmonized, the relationship between the states and the administrative area, among others.”

Werchum narrated that the protests started at 10am and escalated to Gumuruk and Likwangole before calm was restored by the evening.

 

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