The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) arrested five men for illegally drilling boreholes in the city center without permission. The arrests followed reports from social media users who shared photos of the drilling truck on Nugget Street. The JMPD revealed that the men were found to have conducted the borehole drilling without the necessary documentation or approval from the City of Johannesburg.
The JMPD found that the men were drilling the boreholes without any documentation or permissionThe Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department arrested five men for illegally drilling boreholes in the CBD without any permission. Image: @JoburgMPDThe men were arrested by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department for damaging infrastructure by drilling illegal boreholes.
JMPD was alerted to the drilling when X users shared photos of the truck on Nugget Street on Monday, 23 December.The JMPD revealed that the men were arrested at different sites, with the operator of the drilling truck nabbed at the initial site in Nugget Street.Basic Education Department fined R5 million, failed to follow Information Regulator’s POPIA order
They were found to have conducted the borehole drilling without the necessary documentation or even approval from the City of Johannesburg.The arrest of the five men left social media users stunned, as they couldn’t understand how people could just start drilling in the city centre without fear of being caught.“That's how lawless South Africa has become. An illegal immigrant enters our country and drills a borehole in the middle of our CBD.
ILLEGAL DRILLING JOHANNESBURG ARRESTS INFRASTRUCTURE DAMAGE LAWLESSNESS
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