Mayen furious as Warrap government accommodates wife in hotel

JUBA, SEPTEMBER 11, 2023 (SUDANS POST) – South Sudan’s former minister of humanitarian affairs and opposition leader Peter Mayen is complaining that he is being kept away from his wife after the state government allegedly accommodated her in a hotel in the capital, Kuajok.

Aluel Garang, who is popularly known as Aluel Messi, was appointed by President Salva Kiir Mayardit last month as the deputy governor of the restive Warrap State.

This appointment sparked controversy among members of the public, who have speculated that Mayen, a close ally of President Kiir despite being an opposition leader, had used his political relations to influence her appointment to the senior state government position.

According to government sources in Kuajok, the new deputy governor has since been kept at a hotel in the capital.

Mayen said in a brief social media statement that this is a violation of their family principles.

“I don’t like the way the Warrap government is keeping Hon. Deputy Governor Aluel Garang Garang in a hotel when she is a resident of Kuac (Kuajok) and she has a home in Ajiep, Kuajok,” he wrote on Facebook on September 5.

“That is against our family principles. We (Majongdit family) are oriented,” he added.