Workers agitated as Activox collapses

Friday, June 06, 2008

FRANCISTOWN: A contingent of regular police supported by members of the Special Support Group (SSG) had to rush to the construction site of the Activox refinery near Francistown after a group of workers gathered there demanding to know what was going on yesterday.

But the Officer Commanding Number 1 District Senior Superintendent Alakanani Makobo has played down the matter, saying the situation was nowhere near riotous.

Just like you, the regular police and SSG there received a report relating to some agitated workers, Makobo says. We went there to find it was calm and there was nothing to worry about.

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