No headway in the case of murder of Nakamura

JALALABAD (SW) – Tetsu Nakamura, also known as Kaka Murad the legendary Japanese aid worker in Afghanistan, was remember on his first death anniversary.

Nakamura was killed in an armed attack on December 4 last year in the city of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province.

Nangarhar officials had previously said that Nakamura’s daughter and a man named Murakami will be coming to Afghanistan in the future to follow-up on the projects the widely respected Japanese aid worker had launched, but this remains unclear.

Residents of Nangarhar, who are calling for the arrest of Nakamura’s killers, said many people will lose their jobs if the implementation of his projects is stopped.

Jan Mohammad, a resident of Khiva district in Nangarhar, said he met Nakamura when he started working at a canal here. “I have ten daughters and four sons. What would we do these projects are stopped.”

By 2019, Nakamura build up to 8 canals and small and large dams in Nangarhar, Kunar and outskirts of Kabul, which supply water to a total of nearly 25,000 hectares of land and benefit more than one million people.

Fahim Shirzad, a former colleague of Nakamura, said the company had funding to clean at least two canals by the end of this year, and that the canals were being cleaned up. He said the work of cleaning canals will continue.

Nakamura had started working in the health sector for Afghan refugees in Pakistan before 2000 and came to Afghanistan after 2003.

Due to Nakamura’s unprecedented services, the Afghan government granted him honorary citizenship of Afghanistan and called him a hero.

A year after the incident, Nangarhar Governor Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail reiterated the government’s commitment to arrest Nakamura’s killers.

Nakamura was shot dead along with five of his bodyguards on December 4 last year, but his killers have not yet been arrested and details have not been released.

 

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