By William Madouk<\/p>\n
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All security apparatus, civil servants, and humanitarian workers found participating in age-set fights in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area will face persecution and risk losing their jobs, the area authority warned.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n In an order No. 07\/2024 seen by this outlet, the chief administrator of Greater Pibor Administrative Area, Gola Boyoi Gola, banned organized forces, NGOs, and government staff from participating in youth wrangles.<\/p>\n \u201cIn exercise conferred upon me under presidential decree (N0.82\/2024) and Republic order No.07\/2020 for the establishment of Greater Pibor Administrative Area… read together with Article 162(1) (a)(ii) of the Transition of Republic of South Sudan, 2011 amended,\u201d partly reads the order.<\/p>\n \u201cI, H.E. Gola Boyoi Gola, Chief Administrator of GPAA, do hereby issue this administrative order prohibiting all security apparatus, civil servant employees, and staff of international, national, and community-based organizations from participating in age-set in greater Pibor,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n Failure to adhere to the administrative order that came into force on May 3, 2024, would lead to a punitive measure.<\/p>\n According to Gola, any humanitarian worker found guilty would be arrested, and the work contract would be immediately terminated.<\/p>\n Equally, any security personnel involved in the age-set fights\u2014”a simmering youth fight”\u2014would be nabbed and dismissed from the rank and file of the military or organized forces.<\/p>\n \u201cArrest and dismissal from the rank and file of military or organized forces,\u201d Gola added. \u201cArrest and being dismissed from the list of government civil servant employees.\u201d<\/p>\n Reacting to the order, the Executive Director for Community Empowerment for Progress Organizations (CEPO), Edmund Yakani, lauded the directives, citing that it is a long-awaited order because the age-set fight is posing a threat to the area.<\/p>\n \u201cYoung people are being supported or aided by some people who are powerful, and the people who are powerful are either in uniform, people who are working in NGOs, or those who are working in the private sector,\u201d said Yakani.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, [the order] will help us in managing the age sets from being a group of negativities to a group of positivity,\u201d he underscored.<\/p>\n The activist added that to ensure the order holds water, the chief administrator must steer the wheel and get support from the top leadership, including politicians and the people of Greater Pibor.<\/p>\n He called on the chief administrator to restructure young people in Pibor as champions of unity and peaceful co-existence by venturing into sports and dancing activities.<\/p>\n \u201cAs a civil society activist, we are planning to organize a roundtable between the GPAA and the donor community over how we go about dealing with the violence in greater Pibor and its neighbours,\u201d noted Yakani.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By William Madouk All security apparatus, civil servants, and humanitarian workers found participating in age-set fights in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area will face persecution and risk losing their jobs, the area authority warned. 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