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The Opposition has rejected claims that Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) legislation could have prevented the Belmont triple murder that left a toddler dead, even as the Government defends the effectiveness of the ongoing State of Emergency (SOE) and continues to promote ZOSO as part of its wider crime strategy.
The political clash comes in the aftermath of Thursday’s shooting in Belmont that claimed the lives of 23-month-old Akini Kafi, his 30-year-old father Aquil Kafi and family friend Anthony Wilson, 28. The child’s mother, 36-year-old Antonia Cain-Kafi, remains hospitalised in critical condition.
The incident, which was yesterday linked to a quadruple murder along the Lady Young Road, Morvant, last month by Defence Minister Wayne Sturge, has since intensified scrutiny of the Government’s crime strategy.
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