Where is the Metro Disaster Management Plan and the SANDF when we need them? [LETTER]
Now despite bloated budgets, they can’t uphold law and order and defend the infrastructure of the country which is fundamental to their oath of office.
EDITOR – The anarchic conditions of brazen looting and arson have not only alarmed all law-abiding people, but raised the question of why the much-touted eThekwini Disaster Management Plan is not being implemented.
In the past when oil storage tanks at Island View caught fire, there was immediate reaction by Metro Fire and Police to protect ratepayers and their property. The Bluff Ratepayers’ Association (BRA) asks why there is no metro reaction to the wanton destruction of its rates base as shopping centres are set on fire and looted by criminal mobs.
When lockdown was in progress and the beaches were closed, the SANDF accosted people on the beach and surfers in the water. Where is the SANDF now that there is an unprecedented threat to the security of life, limb and property?
By their silence and failure to act against the wanton looting and destruction of our neighbourhoods and business sectors, those in government have earned the utter contempt of all decent law-abiding people.
These are the same people who have proved their inability to ensure a steady supply of electricity. Now despite bloated budgets, they can’t uphold law and order and defend the infrastructure of the country which is fundamental to their oath of office.
On a sad but true note, it should be conceded that the looting that is going on is simply a brazen replica of the looting those in government have been doing for years.
DR DUNCAN DU BOIS
Vice Chairman, BRA
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