Director appeal to JEM for release of 24 abducted staff members

El-Hadi Daw Ibrahim, Director and founder of the Nabta engineering company, appeals to the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to release 24 of his staff members.

El-Hadi Daw Ibrahim, Director and founder of the Nabta engineering company, appeals to the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to release 24 of his staff members.

They were abducted on the eighth of June this month in Hafeer Doano, 13 kilometers East of Umm Ajaja in the locality of Aboujabrah, East Darfur. He also appealed to the JEM to return 16 construction trucks, 3 loaders and a small 4×4 vehicles which they took during their invasion of Umm Ajaja.

He denies accusations that his company belongs to the the National Congress Party stating “Me and my children do not belong to the security service or the National Congress. I am an ordinary citizen and work hard to earn a living and in doing so try to contribute to the development of the region”.

El- Hadi explains to Radio Dabanga that the JEM destroyed 10 rigs, survey tools and a generator at the El-Hafeer site, which his company claims 50% ownership of.

He explains that he and his sons own the company. It was established in 1987 when they received a tender to dig water wells in east Darfur state in order to provide citizens with drinking water.

The JEM admitted to taking the survey tools and vehicles upon entering the Umm Ajaja area earlier this month. The JEM stated that they received information indicating that the tools and vehicles belonged to the security apparatus. Upon entering the site they found no registration papers, after questioning the drivers of the vehicles they said they belonged to the government

Jibril Adam Bilal, the spokesman of JEM told Radio Dabanga that the movement has no knowledge concerning the 24 abducted staff members. He said arrests were made and the JEM is currently checking the relationship between these people and the government.