Curfew in Morrumbala – Diário da Zambézia

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Curfew in Morrumbala – Diário da Zambézia

3:04 CAT | 15 Sep 2016

DZ / Pedro Sapange, administrator of Morrumbala

Diário da Zambézia brings an article titled ‘Circulating after 8 p.m. means risking ‘chamboco'”. Please read below:

Since suspected Renamo gunmen robbed the village headquarters in Morrumbala, life hasn’t been the same. The village has filled with the Defence and Security Forces personnel, causing the population to go about and sleep in fear. And to make matters worse, people can no longer circulate 24 hours a day, on pain of being struck with a ‘chamboco’, reports Diario da Zambézia.

The situation leaves the population aghast, and they do not understand the Defence and Security Forces’s attitude. Nor their switching on sirens in the middle of the night.

Restaurants and pastures houses are the main targets of the police clamp-down, with closing time set at 10:00 p.m.. This means individuals can no longer hold parties or enjoy themselves late into the night.

Administrator responds

Challenged on the situation, Morrumbala administrator Pedro Sapange began by denying any curfew had been decreed, telling the Diário da Zambézia that people could go about as late as 10:00 p.m., and citing ongoing evening classes as proof.

As to any prohibition of movement, the administrator then explained that the authorities had taken the decision to contain a crime wave plaguing the district, with traders the main targets.

“The commercialisation of sesame has caused so much money to flow around here that it is necessary to keep order,” Sapange explained.

PRM aknowledges restriction on people’s movements

Diário da Zambézia also heard the police of Mozambique through the spokesman, and learned that, yes, this measure exists, but Jacinto Felix assured that it is not a law but instead, all aimed at controlling public order and tranquillity which have been violated by Renamo men. Felix went further to say thatat this time, the bars and pastures house do have a specific time and gave the example of Quelimane where up to 10 p.m. at most everything must be closed. About chambocos, thePRM spokesman explained that in case those cases take place, it can only be overzealous by agents who are on the ground, but who have no guidance for mistreating citizens which, incidentally, is not the police vocation . Note that the Morrumbala village is considered one that is on the Renamo red line judging from the way things have happened in that region of Zambezia.

Source: Diário da Zambézia