Clandestine Maputo nightclub with more than 200 customers shut down – O País

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Clandestine Maputo nightclub with more than 200 customers shut down – O País

3:58 CAT | 15 Mar 2021

Photo: O País

Outside, there was no sign. After all, in order to get into the place, it was necessary to comply with two rules: firstly, not parking nearby and, secondly, entering by 9:00 p.m. and leaving at around 4:00 a.m..

So it was that the clandestine nightclub operated for about a year in downtown Maputo.

With loud music, the sale of alcoholic beverages and unrestrained smoking, the establishment attracted young people aged between 19 and 30 years of age who, on weekends, preferred to spend the night out, in defiance of all the measures put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, including curfews and social distancing.

“It is my first time here – I’ve never been before,” one young woman told ‘O País’, putting the blame squarely on the establishment. “They’re the ones who are open.”

“I’m here for my cousin’s birthday. I just wanted to sing Happy Birthday to her,” another young woman related, hiding her face in her hands.

In addition to native Mozambicans, ‘O País’ found plenty of foreigners – before the police officers arrived on the scene; young people speaking English and flashing foreign identity documents.

With a hodgepodge of lights on the main stage, a sound centre, a kitchen and bar, the space where the nightclub operated sported several entrances, with cellars and dark crannies, some even unlit, where young people sat and enjoyed the nightly “eccentricities”.

The National Inspection of Economic Activities (INAE) suspects that the place was also used for the consumption of narcotic drugs, since many of those caught “were visibly ‘altered'” INAE inspector Angela Uamusse observed.

By Romeo Carlos

Source: O País