Tripoli, 11 May:
It is reported from Murzuk that earlier this week an armed group forced the closure of election registration centres . . .[restrict]in schools in and around the town along with banks and civil registry offices. The group, comprising a number of thuwar, complained that they had not received the NTC grant being paid to the revolutionaries.
The centres reopened by Wednesday according to Bubakr Mohammed, who runs a Tebu NGO in the area. He said that he and others had negotiated with the group, explaining to them that they would get their money but that whatever complaints they had should go through proper channels and would be addressed.
“Everything is normal now,” he said.
Meanwhile a local source who did not want to be named, claimed that a number of Libyan Tebus had been registering false names at the centres. He alleged that the local civil registry office had helped by providing blank birth certificates to which the names of Chadian Tebus were then added.
The allegation has been denied by local Libyan Tebus. [/restrict]
