Activist urges nation-wide condemnation of Peter Mayen over ‘criminality’ against wife

JUBA – A Cairo-based South Sudanese activist has added his voice to calls for President Salva Kiir Mayardit to remove and punish the minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management Peter Mayen Majongdit after stabbing and detaining wife against her own will in Kuajok.

This comes weeks after media reports that Mr. Mayen, who was also the chairman of People’s Liberal Party and head of the opposition consortium, Other Opposition Parties (OPP), was involved in a domestic fight with his wife Aluel Garang, a female footballer better known as Aluel Messi.

It was reported that Mayen then stabbed his wife in the leg. A few days ago, the minister was ousted as party head and then returned to take his new-born child from Aluel and is said in a village in Warrap state with his father.

The controversial Mayen’s actions have sparked public outcry with women activists urging President Salva Kiir Mayardit to remove him from the ministerial position given to him as per terms of the revitalized peace agreement.

Speaking to Sudans Post this afternoon, human rights activist Riak Machar Pathot said from the Egyptian capital Cairo that he support the calls and urged nation-wide condemnation against Peter Mayen’s actions.

“I stand in solidarity with all rights activists and urge a nation-wide call for removal of Hon. Peter Mayen as Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management because he has committed a lot of crimes and nobody has ever held him accountable for all these crimes,” he said.

“I therefore call upon the president of the republic in particular, the vice-president for youth and gender to urgently act and remove Peter Mayen because he has also been removed from his party,” he said, adding that Mayen “has no legitimacy and legal ground to continue to hold that ministerial position.”