Community leader prepared for reported R50 000 hit

Threats against his safety have caused a Westenburg community leader to declare war against his suspected attackers after news broke of an alleged R50 000 hit on his head a week and a half ago.
He believes it is for his anti-crime stance and opposing drug peddling in the area, where word on the street speaks of a reported intention on the side of local suspected drug dealers to turn Westenburg into another Mitchell’s Plain riddled with drugs.
It was learnt that numerous warnings about threats against his life brought to his attention since speaking out against community leaders seen to be involved in suspected drug deals, raised during an earlier community meeting towards the end of September, have resulted in Percy Adams having turned to the Police about a reported mission to have him killed within the next two months. The meeting to address crime in the area was part of a series of ongoing engagements steered by Transport and Community Safety MEC Dickson Masemola with residents from suburbs across the city.
Adams confirmed that he had escalated the matter to the highest level when he informed Westenburg Station Commander Mailula Pilusa about the warnings of a threat against his life on Monday. He was not taking the threat against his safety lightly, Adams stressed. Thus far no case has been registered but the situation was being monitored, he explained.
Adams said he had been warned numerous times about the decision to have him killed seemingly by a hit man to be organised by a downtown drug trader on behalf of what he referred to as “a small mafia” in Westenburg. Apparently an amount of R50 000 would have been put aside to pay for the job. The last warning to alert him of the allegations came on Sunday from a female resident who said she had learnt of his life being at risk, he highlighted.
According to him he was being seen as a stumbling block in the trade of drugs in the neighbourhood. It was a topic he had been vocal about and had vehemently spoken out about for long, he indicated.

Story: YOLANDE NEL
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