Pretoria – The South African National Roads Agency Chief Executive Officer Nazir Alli has expressed concern about the second scare incident at SANRAL's Central Operations Centre, on Friday.
“SANRAL is extremely worried about the impact this kind of behaviour is having on people who work at the Centre. Most of them are first-time workers and relatively young.
“Whoever is not happy about a government policy has appropriate channels to express their dissatisfaction. It is a callous person that engages in such activities, and groups that incite lawlessness that encourage such cruel acts should be aware of the consequences of their actions,” he said.
“We appeal to people’s sense of citizenship. Yes, citizens are active and entitled to dissent within the context of a constitutional democracy. Those who have chosen to show their dissent by sending these powdery substances to our Centre are showing an unfortunate conception of citizenship.
“They should pause and reflect if they would wish their own family members to be subjected to the anxiety and fear caused to the employees at the Centre.”
Alli said it was unfortunate that every time there is such an incident, public resources have to be deployed and possibly diverted from areas where they could be needed.
SANRAL confirmed that the impact of the second evacuation was limited to disrupting the call centre only.
All other systems are automated and redundancies are in place. – SAnews.gov.za
