:Safety of TMC president home in question over poor fencing

TAWAU, A number of incidents had raised questions on the ability of the fences surrounding the house of the local township administrator in term of providing security for occupants within the compound.

A representative working for the president of the Tawau Municipal Council (TMC) Haji Salsidu Ibrahim said that the latest incident took place where he believed a number of stray dogs entered into the compound and killed two adult goats. `I believe stray dogs did it and they should be a large number and big sized as these two goats were big but they managed to kill them as they were tied to a tree within the compound and dragged their carcasses away’, the man explained over the incident which took place on July 7, 2008.

The man who wishes not to have his name publish added that they fear for the safety of Salsidu and his family as they could not patrol the whole area with the manpower at hand while there had been cases of intruder entering into the compound through the inadequate fencing which had been built over ten years ago. He also said that the fence now has holes in them and many part of it are now deemed not suitable to serve it’s intended purpose and an immediate steps must be taken to build new fence around the compound.

`The president received a number of high level representatives and such fence will not give a good impression over our government effort to protect local administrator’, he added.