An employee of the department said there have been a stench for the past month throughout the building but yesterday it was unbearable. The employee said there is a restaurant next door and it seems as if there are lots of rats in the area that lives in the ceiling of the ROB building. The civil servant said recently persons in the area began putting rat poison to kill the rodents that have infested their workplace and it is seems as if the rodents died in the ceiling.
SMN News understands that the stench was unbearable which caused the employees to walk away from work. It is said the director of ROB asked the workers to stay in the building and work up until midday after which they were closed to the public so that someone could have checked out the source of the stench.
Sources told this media house that moments after some sort of inspection fumigation took place.
In an invited comment Acting head of the Hygiene Department Maria Van Hennigen said the department was not contacted for any issues that relates to hygiene. Van Hennigen said she was passing in the area and noticed what was taking place. She said even though she is no expert the problem was not related to hygiene instead it has to do with the building that houses ROB.
