PCCA sets new date for anti-Kiir protests

JUBA – South Sudan’s People’s Coalition for Civil Action (PCCA) which was established in August this year to work for removal of President Salva Kiir Mayardit from power has set a new date for nation-wide protest against the government of President Salva Kiir Mayardit saying his government has done little since the last attempt for people to take to the street.

The PCCA was established in August by prominent South Sudanese activists, Abraham Awolich, Rajab Muhandis, and former governor of the country’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state Kuel Aguer Kuel who has now remained in jail since his arrest in August by South Sudan National Security Service.

The group had set August 30 as a day of protest in which citizens across the world’s youngest country were to take to the streets to demand the resignation of President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s government because he “has failed to deliver” services to the suffering people of South Sudan.

In a statement on Friday, the PCCA said it has set November 29^th as the ‘National Awakening Day’ for citizens to take to the street to demand dissatisfaction with the performance of President Salva Kiir Mayardit.

“The 29^th of November 2021 is a continuation of a series of peaceful protests, civil disobedience, strikes, and sit-ins across South Sudan that are aimed at awakening the people of South Sudan to exercise their democratic rights and actively demand the return of peace, unity, economic vibrancy, and security in our beloved country,” the PCCA says in the statement seen by Sudans Post.

“The citizens of South Sudan across the cities, towns, villages, IDP and refugee camps, and diaspora to come out and hold peaceful demonstrations, civil disobedience, strikes, boycotts, and all other forms of peaceful civil resistance to express their dissatisfaction with the performance of the government,” the statement adds.

It urged “all public employees to join peaceful protests or stay home until the your salaries by 4000%. That is the minimum livable government raises wage you deserve” and “all the business owners to close their shops and other facilities to avoid being looted or being vandalized by criminal elements for the duration of peaceful demonstrations.”