Criminals prowl Mannathoko ward

Plot owners are forced to replace stolen building materials. The thieves target items such as water tanks and cement. The Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) is also losing its electric cables to criminals. A walk around some of the residential houses reveals extensive damage left by the thieves. Some houses, which had doors, are now without doors after the thugs had run away with them. The criminals have also left the houses without windowpanes.

A resident of new Mannathoko ward, Warona Olebile, is one of the victims of crime in the area. She says the thugs struck twice at her residential plot and got away with electric cables. She says in the first instance, “The thieves broke into my house and removed all the wired electric cables destroying electric sockets in the process.”