Criminal nests brought down

ABAQULUSI Municipality may have just dealt with the issue of vacant buildings in town that were nesting criminals once and for all.

On a mission to handle what had become home to drug peddlers and many other heinous criminal activities, municipal directors headed out with a TLB to bring down the building that was once a substation in Mason Street near the clinic but had recently become a home for criminals.

The building came under scrutiny recently when its occupants decided to write a rather unsavoury message on its walls dedicated to the police.

It is believed that this occurred after a police parade during which the local police raided the building and confiscated some items.

“The really bad thing about this building is that they have now started to use it for selling drugs, if it was just being used for shelter or someone was using it as a tuckshop maybe we would reconsider,” said ALM’s director of Town Planning, Stefan Landmaan.

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The insides of the building’s walls were black with soot indicating that it may have also been used as a place to keep warm during Winter.

Once this shelter was down, officials headed up High Street to bring down a house just before the High Street Bridge.

Human waste and all sorts of rubbish marred the floors of this old Transnet house and municipal workers on the scene could not hold back gags as the fumes rose with each wall brought down.

The municipality hopes that bringing down these vacant buildings will help fight the rising levels of crime in town.

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