The monument was dynamited on the orders of British colonial commander Percy Coriat in 1928, shortly after the first attempt to demolish it failed.

[1][5] Unlike the Nubian Pyramids in Northern Sudan, the Ngundeng Pyramid/Pyramid of Dengkur was constructed entirely of ash, animal dung, cotton soil, and clay—not a single stone or brick was used.

[7] One of the prime examples was when Gaajiok(section of Eastern Jikany Nuer) women were once smitten with childlessness, and for many years they bore no male children.

Soon, hundreds of bulls were sacrificed at the Pyramid's base, and warriors from all over Nuerland arrived, including forces led by two additional prophets, Char Koryom and Puok Kerjiok.

[1][11] On November 29, 1928, Percy Coriat and C. Armine Willis, known as "Chunky" Willis, the army's commander-in-chief of the military forces in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, dispatched four British Royal Air Forces carrying 20-pound bombs to destroy the Ngundeng Pyramid, which the government had already identified as a symbol of Nuer resistance.

[12][13] A large number of government troops successfully dispersed the Nuer and reached the Pyramid a few days after the Royal Air Force raids.

The second attempt to destroy the pyramid failed, as Percy Coriat described it: "A puff of white smoke and a few lumps of earth tumbling down the side was all they saw."