A security workshop in Khartoum discusses threats in the real estate sector and calls for tighter control over furnished apartments

Khartoum/The Citizen

The General Intelligence Service, in cooperation with the Sub-Chamber of Real Estate Offices and Furnished Apartments, organized a workshop entitled “Security Threats in the Real Estate Sector and Field Procedures”, under the patronage of the Minister of Culture, Information and Tourism in Khartoum State, at the Cultural Center in Modraman.

During the workshop, the Director of the Tourism and Heritage Police, Mohammed Abdul Ghani, explained that furnished apartments have become a security gap as a result of the random spread of rents, stressing the need to take strict measures to ensure security. He stressed that community security is a shared responsibility, calling for concerted official and popular efforts, pointing out that this workshop will be the beginning of a series of organized steps towards improving oversight.

For his part, the Minister of Culture, Information and Tourism and representative of the Governor of Khartoum, Tayeb Saad El-Din, stressed the need to form a joint mechanism to monitor and control the activity of furnished apartments, noting that this activity is relatively recent in Sudan compared to other countries. He explained that the ministry is the body legally authorized to regulate tourism work, pointing out that Khartoum state has lost 98% of the furnished apartments sector due to the war.

Al-Tayeb added that the lack of security among some citizens is one of the biggest challenges, stressing that the police have allocated a toll-free number to report any threats, calling for the launch of an extensive media campaign to raise awareness among property owners and close security gaps.

The representative of the General Intelligence Service, Ezzeddine Mohammed, presented the first paper entitled “Security Threats”, pointing out that the unorganized foreign presence represents a prominent threat, and that not reporting suspicious cases is a cover that puts its owner under the penalty of the law. Crimes such as currency counterfeiting, smuggling, illegal seizure and murder have been linked to a number of foreign offenders, he said.

The head of the Sub-Chamber of Real Estate Offices and Furnished Apartments, Khaled Yass Sharaf El-Din, discussed the second paper on “Field Procedures within the Framework of Previous Experiences”.

Khalid Yass Sharafeddin, head of the sub-chamber of real estate offices and furnished apartments in Khartoum state, said that the war started from furnished apartments, and pointed out that there was a fierce attack on furnished apartments that preceded the war, especially those overlooking vital sites
And Yasin asked the owners of real estate offices