Shas­tri Boodan

The Ch­agua­nas May­or has called on the Gov­ern­ment to pro­vide more re­sources to the po­lice.

Faaiq Mo­hammed made the com­ment on Sun­day while dis­trib­ut­ing Moth­er’s Day gifts to burgess­es.

Mo­hammed said po­lice are not get­ting the nec­es­sary tools to fight crime and have to con­stant­ly beg the pri­vate sec­tor for as­sis­tance.

He said, “There are more mur­ders than days.”

Mo­hammed said more pa­trols with­out the nec­es­sary re­sources may prove fu­tile for the po­lice.

He said the Min­istry of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment should al­so in­crease the num­ber of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice in re­gion­al bod­ies.

“Re­cent­ly we had to get do­na­tions for a drone. From time to time they would con­tact my of­fice to get com­put­ers. Even sim­ple things such as light­ing, we had an is­sue where pris­on­ers es­caped from the Ch­agua­nas sta­tion be­cause of bad light­ing. You can clear­ly see that some mis­man­age­ment is hap­pen­ing with the fund­ing at the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty,” he said.

Mo­hammed said the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty is still will­ing to do­nate to the po­lice. How­ev­er, the peo­ple are fed up with the Gov­ern­ment. “We are get­ting fed up of pick­ing up their slack,” he said.

Kath­leen Bar­lo was one of the women who re­ceived a Moth­er’s Day gift from the may­or.

Mo­hammed said Kath­leen is a “hero” who ded­i­cat­ed her life to at­tend to the needs of her son Bran­don Bar­lo, 30, who was be­came crip­pled 11 years ago when he ac­ci­den­tal­ly fell.

Bran­don said he is un­able to work and ap­pre­ci­ates the ef­fort of the may­or to as­sist his moth­er and sev­er­al oth­ers on the oc­ca­sion.

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