COSATU welcomes deployment of specialist skills to probe mass shooting
1 October 2024
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in the Eastern Cape welcomes the deployment of specialised SAPS personnel and resources to the investigation into the mass shooting of 18 people in the Ngobozana village in Lusikisiki at the weekend.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured the families of the deceased that a team of specialised detectives and forensic experts have been assigned to investigate the shooting that has left the province and the country at large reeling at its brutality and impunity. The assailants targeted two houses near each other and murdered twelve women and one man in the first house, and four others in the second house.
The Eastern Cape has been beset by numerous instances of killings, house robberies and extortion, in addition to high levels of crimes in many townships and communities.
COSATU Eastern Cape trusts that the specialised crime-fighting expertise that have been deployed to the province will not only focus on the mass shooting but will extend to probe the crime wave that has been bedevilling communities in the province.