Minister Mayen continue to detain wife against will despite calls from family to return her

JUBA — South Sudan’s minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management Peter Mayen Majongdit has defied calls for him to return his wife Aluel Garang to her family and has continued to lock her will in a room in Kuajok.

This comes a week after minister Mayen was involved in a domestic violence with Aluel Garang Garang who is widely known as Aluel Messi.

Family members said last week that Mayen stabbed Aluel in her leg and has since refused to led her go to his family.

Deng Garang, Aluel’s relative, said their daughter was recovering from head and leg injuries, but minister was still holding her preventing his family from seeing her.

“As a family, we are not happy; we are so emotional and this is unbecoming. Aluel is now in Kuajok and she is still locked in and has no access to us. She doesn’t have a phone because her phone was destroyed by Hon. Peter Mayen,” Garang  said, according to Eye Radio.

“Our call as a family is that, we are urging the Kuach community where Mayen belongs to send us back our daughter,” he added.