THEIR employer received a small tender to renovate Etwatwa Fire Station.
The contractor built storage cupboards for firefighters to put their personal belongings in and some of their work tools.
The job was completed recently, but the contractor allegedly failed to pay his workers. So, in revenge, the workers went back to the station on Thursday, 14 March to destroy the renovations.
They removed doors from the locked cupboards, which shocked the firefighters as their belongings were exposed and their privacy was invaded.
The workers apparently planned to sell the doors to pay themselves. But firefighters called metro cops, who caught two suspects red-handed as they were busy removing doors and they were bust.
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On the day the two suspects were nabbed, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) spokeswoman, Lieutenant-Colonel Kelebogile Thepa said the two workers, aged 39 and 56, were caught removing doors from the renovated cupboards which were locked.
"The EMPD Etwatwa precinct officers received a complaint from the control room about the pair removing locked doors at Etwatwa Fire Station. Upon arrival, the officers were told by the two suspects that they worked for the construction company that carried out renovations at the fire station and their employer failed to pay their wages hence they decided to commit the act.
"Officers explained to the suspects that they are on municipal property without the knowledge and instructions of their employer and were arrested," said Thepa.
The two suspects face charges of malicious damage to municipal property and appeared in the Daveyton Magistrates Court on Monday, 18 March.
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