City youths vow to stop illegal activities

By MIRIAM ZARRIGA
FIFTY-three rounds of ammunition, eight home-made guns, a spear, several marijuana plants, 20 homebrew cylinders and four containers were handed over to police at the Burns Peak settlement in Hohola yesterday.
The youths in the settlement said “Enough is enough” and vowed to stop all illegal activities.
Philip Paul, one of their leaders, said: “We sat as a team and decided we needed to change and now we have done this, we are ready to move on to something better for our lives and our families’ lives”.
Community leader Peter Six told settlers to continue working with the police in ensuring the safety of the community and to change the mindset of people who labelled Burns Peak settlement as a “cowboy” settlement.
“The change from the youths comes at a time when they have seen what they are doing is affecting their families, relationships with their wives and kids and police,” Six said.
“We need to support them and I am willing to assist and we all should assist, let’s build this youths up instead of tearing them down.