Manama: Dozens of public parks have been badly vandalised after being left without security cover due to the dissolution of the Central Governorate more than 15 months ago, it has been revealed.
Bahrain’s administrative boundaries were redrawn in September 2014 by Royal decree, which meant that all areas that previously came under the Central Governorate were subsumed by its neighbours to the north and south.
An unfortunate knock-on effect of this move was the cancelling of all contractual obligations for the security firm that previously guarded the dissolved governorate’s 40 or so parks.
The Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning Affairs Ministry has referred 30 of these to the Capital Trustees Board, according to its vice-chairman Mazen Alumran. “All have been extensively damaged because they were left without security guards,” he said.
“Our security firm will now have to cover these 30 alongside the others we already have, besides those transferred from the Northern Governorate after the boundaries were changed.
“But it will take time to have them restored to their original condition due to the past year’s negligence and availability of budgets. It really angers me that someone would destroy public property just for the fun of it because no-one is watching.”
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