... BuCOPHO CONfirMs rECEIvING PEtItION
PIGG’S PEAK - Sifiso Mokoena, the area’s Bucopho, confirmed that he received a petition and that he would take to the relevant authorities.
He said he was yet to present it to the inkhundla.
He also said the youth peacefully presented the petition and that they did not show any hostility. “I accepted it and assured them that I would forward their request to the relevant authorities,” he said.
Mokoena further said some of the requests did not fall under the jurisdiction of the inkhundla, but that they may have to be forwarded to the relevant departments.
DEcriED
Some of the youth also decried one of the major concerns was the high level of crime in the area. They said they wanted the police to come up with ways of fighting the crime as young people were losing patience. “We do not want to find ourselves taking the law into our own hands,” they said.
The Chief Police Information and Communications Officer Superintendent Phindile Vilakati said the police had not received a formal concern about this from the youth regarding the high crime rate in the area.
“I am not able to comment on something that I have not seen yet,” said Vilakati.
Noteworthy, recently in a neighbouring community of Nginamadvolo, a man was beaten by a mob after he was accused of robbing a Mobile Money vendor of her day’s takings.
The man is alleged to have fled but he was eventually captured by the members of the mob who whipped him in public.
He is alleged to have succumbed to his injuries while at the Pigg’s Peak Police Station after he returned from being attended to by a doctor.
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