THATTA, Sept 28: A group of people, affected by construction of the Right Bank Outfall Drain, staged a protest demonstration in front of the RBOD Division-III office in Makli on Wednesday against delay in payment of compensation of their lands.

Their 180 houses in four villages, and agricultural lands on 3835.29 acres, located in 22 dehs, were destroyed during the excavation of the RBOD.

They said that they were running from pillar to post to get the compensation but nobody was taking interest in their plea.

The protesters were holding placards and chanting slogans against the executive engineer. They blamed the engineer for not paying them the compensation amount. They RBOD officials, when contacted, narrated another story.

They said that payment of over Rs100 million had already been made to the affected.

The 273 kilometres long RBOD would cost Rs14 billion and have a capacity of 2,700 cusecs. It would carry effluents of Dadu, Jamshoro and Thatta districts.

SUSPENSION: The entire staff of Sujawal police station was suspended by Thatt DPO Dawood Junejo here on Wednesday for their failure to arrest the killers of truck driver Abdul Shakoor Bhambro.

He was killed while foiling a robbery on the highway.

The DPO assigned the Sujawal TPO Gul Munir Qazi to complete the case and arrest the robbers within a week.

The suspended policemen were SHO Nazir Magsi, ASI Aslam Guggo, ASI Abdul Haq Baran, ASI Aziz Soomro, Head Constable Arshad Arain, Constables Abdul Sattar Khaskheli, Shakoor Shar, Javed Jamari, and Ghulam Mohammad Khaskheli.

The new SHO, Afzal Baig, has taken the charge.