Dead cat placed at entrance of Scouts building

The chairperson of the organisation, N Litha, who would not give the Gazette her first name, has accused some community members of harassing her, her family and staff worker.

The organisation plans on establishing an early learning development and African languages centre.

The harassment comes after The Gazette published two articles, Community up in arms over park, week ending 8 August and JPC tender queries, week ending 19 September.

Litha said following these articles, she found a dead cat placed at the entrance of the Scouts building, and on another occasion faeces were placed there. She added that since moving in, she has had to paint over the walls after offensive slurs had been spray painted onto them.

“We have had people approach us on our property and try to intimidate us and tell us that we are not meant to be here,” said Litha.

“On a Facebook campaign launched earlier this year [by the Craighall Residents’ Association] we were labelled as outsiders – something I feel was completely wrong.”

Litha has since approached the Human Rights Committee which ruled in the organisation’s favour and ordered the residents’ association to withdraw the Facebook campaign. The committee has also instructed the Property Company to build a fence around the property.

“We are so disappointed to have been treated in this manner,” said Litha. “All we did was apply for a tender, and the sad part about the whole issue is that the tender was not contested as we were the only people who had applied for it.”

The Craighall Residents’ Association released a statement which confirmed the association had been informed of users of the park who had aggressively questioned Litha. “The CRA totally agrees that intimidation by any person is unacceptable. We do not condone such behaviour and condemn it in the strongest terms,” it stated.

Ward councillor Anthony Still said he was aware of the complaints made by Litha and had tried to meet with her, but she had not responded to any of his emails.

“I have only heard third party accounts of these incidents, but there seems to be two sides to this situation as there are also accusations that the new tenant is abusive and aggressive when approached,” said Still.

“However, there must be some truth in this. I cannot see that she [Litha] would make it all up.”

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