Just in: Businessman kidnapped in Zimpeto, Maputo, on Friday – Lusa

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Just in: Businessman kidnapped in Zimpeto, Maputo, on Friday – Lusa

12:46 CAT | 02 Dec 2020

Photo: Miramar

Miramar TV reports in the video below that it is the second time that this businessman’is kidnapped

A businessman was kidnapped on Friday afternoon in Maputo, the Mozambican capital, a police source told Lusa today [Wednesday].

The businessman of Indian origin is said to have been abducted by three armed men while on his way home from the house of a family member, police spokesman Leonel Muchina said.

“They fired some shots to persuade the victim to comply,” then dragged him into a vehicle and fled, he said.

The 54-year-old businessman was on his way home and was reportedly kidnapped in the Zimpeto neighbourhood, on the outskirts of Maputo.

The PRM said that investigations investigations were underway, in coordination with the National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic).

Miramar TV reports in the video below that it is the second time that this businessman’is kidnapped, identifies the victim as Manaf, the manager of a commercial warehouse.

Watch the Miramar report.

Figures so far put forward by the Mozambican authorities indicate that 11 kidnappings have occurred in the country (including this latest, on Friday) since the beginning of the year, with the victims always businessmen or their close family members.

In October, a group of businesspeople in the city of Beira, Sofala province, central Mozambique, stopped activities for three days in protest against the wave of abductions in the country.

The Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique (CTA), the largest employers’ association in the country, has also on several occasions demanded a more effective fight against this type of crime, and even Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi has called for tougher measures.

In November, the Mozambican government promised an “energetic fight” against kidnappings, describing the crime as “horrendous”, and saying that it was strengthening the police and modernising the corporation’s ability to combat kidnappings.

Source: Lusa / Miramar