The inhabitants of Gao, the main city in the north of the country, can no longer bear the insecurity. The “living forces” of the locality once again asked in a press release on Friday for the State to ensure their safety in the face of armed attacks and thefts of which they are regular victims.
With our correspondent in the region, Serge Daniel
Targeted murder in the city center of Gao, robbery of civilians or even kidnapping of property and people, the populations of the main locality in northern Mali are angry. They are once again asking the state to take the necessary measures.
” We, the population of Gao, faced with the observation of growing and extremely serious insecurity, have asked the State to carry out systematic searches of suspects, to intensify the homelands, to prohibit unregistered vehicles, to judge those arrested “, explains Elhad Jahou Touré, one of the spokespersons of the living forces of Gao.
The populations demand the rapid implementation of its recommendations. Their concerns are shared in the localities surrounding the city. This Friday, there was still no news of many civilians intercepted by armed men on the Gao-Intahaka axis. Located about fifty kilometers from Gao, Intahaka is an important gold panning site