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According to an opposition official, MP Mark Anei Mading was arrested on Friday after a brief meeting with Governor Aleu at his residence in Juba in which the governor slapped the lawmaker after refusing to respect an instruction to declare his allegiance from First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar’s opposition group.
“They presented their list of five people who were nominated, and then the governor told them that he wanted only one person to be on the list,” a Warrap citizen identified as Cirilo Kuol Dut, told the City Review Newspaper.
“He told them that they are youths and all from one side, and the group replied that it did not matter whether they were young [because] they were representing the community and they asked the Governor to consider their request,” he added.
Dut said things escalated when the governor slapped the lawmaker for refusing to abandon the SPLM-IO and then ordered his bodyguards to run after him after fleeing the compound and then flogging him after catching him where he was later on taken to Juba prison.
But for his part, Governor Aleu said, when contacted by the Review, said the lawmaker went to the governor’s house to attack him and that there was no any truth to what is being said that the lawmaker was detained for refusing to join the SPLM under President Salva Kiir Mayardit.
“He came to attack me in my house, and I did not have an appointment with him; he came with about six people to my house,” he said.
