By Ahmed Elumami.
Tripoli, 12 September 2013:
A small group of youths from Zawia Street and elsewhere in Tripoli protesting at the Ministry of Communications at the water stoppage in the capital have threatened to force ministry staff to cut the communications to the south of the country.
They say that if water is not running normally by Friday, they will cut communications on Saturday to Al-Shwairef and Gira, the two towns which cut the water to Tripoli in response to the kidnapping of Abdullah Senussi’s daughter, Anoud.
The protesters also criticised the Prime Minister, over comments he made at his press conference on Wednesday saying that “the Ministry of Communication has been stormed by protesters” and that “nobody has the right to use violence in protests even if he participated in the revolution”.
No one had used violence, they said, and no one from the ministry staff had been hurt, said one of the protesters, Mohaned Mohamed, demanding an apology from the Prime Minister for “tarnishing the revolutionaries’ reputation”.
The Libya Herald reporter was taken inside the ministry by the protesters. It was very quiet and everything appeared to be in its place. [/restrict]
