Peter Lam Both (born in 1972) was the first appointed Governor of Latjoor, South Sudan, established by President Salva Kiir on 2 October 2015.
[1][2] Both is a high-ranking South Sudanese diplomat of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), currently serving as Secretary General.
Both and a group of other Jikany leaders met with former Vice President Riek Machar on 4 May 2013, during which they warned him not to politicize the community of Nuer in an SPLM power struggle.
In front of his aides, Both explained to Riek that he was taking the country to brink of war by invoking ethnic Nuer sentiments to support his bid for chairmanship of the party rather than using SPLM political platform to convince voters to elect him.
Both was the first official to call on South Sudanese leaders to stop the crisis before it happened, but instead, Both was criticized by Dr. Riek's supporters like Hon.
But, Both was vindicated on 15 December 2013 when war broke out and members of the Nuer community became victims of the crisis because they are from Riek's ethnic group.
Both remained loyal to SPLM under the leadership of President Salva Kiir Mayardit as a symbol of unity and national integration.
At the same time, Both could not point fingers at the leaders in Juba who actually did the appointments due to the political sensitivity of the issue.
Both always says, "I have accomplished what was hard to do; what has remained now is the day today management of the chapters and the nurturing of our bilateral diplomatic relations with Canada, which does not require rocket science."