President Kiir. |Office of the President.

President Kiir has relieved Benjamine Bol Mel as a board member of the Petroleum and Gas Cooperation, Nile Pet, and replaced him with businessman Ladu Lukak.

This was through a Republican decree read on the State’s own TV SSBC Wednesday evening.

Bol Mel was appointed by the President last year in December as the Presidential Special Envoy on Special Programs.

His removal from Nilepet Board members comes a month after he was appointed as SPLM’s First Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs and Mobilization, replacing Akol Paul Kordit.

In a separate decree, President Kiir appointed businessman Ladu Lukak in the place of Bol Mel as a new board member of the NilePet.