By Jamal Adel.
Beida, 16 April 2015:
A Civil Registration Department employee in Sebha was abducted yesterday evening, allegedly because his “by-the-book” work style . . .[restrict]angered some local residents who wanted him to turn a blind eye in the issuing of national ID numbers.
“Ahmed Areefa was abducted by unknown assailants and his whereabouts are unknown,” a department employee told the Libya Herald, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Areefa has been in charge of the national ID office in Sebha’s Civil Registration Department. According to a department source, a number of individuals have had problems with Areefa because he was “so strict in issuing national ID numbers”. The source said he believed that residents abducted him because he would not bend the law for them.
Employees of the department have gone on strike over the incident.
In a separate, and rather bizarre, incident in the Al-Jadeed district of Sebha, a practical joke played by a teenage girl reportedly led to some 22 students fainting in school.
A female high school student at the Fezzan school is said to have managed to get her fellow students, all girls, to rub themselves with an anesthetic cream. The result was that 22 of them fainted in class and were rushed to Sebha Medical Centre.
School authorities initially suspected the girls had been poisoned.
Sebha’s police department have decided the incident was a prank and are taking no further action. [/restrict]
