Mozambique: Fight against kidnappings must be scaled up – Nyusi

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Mozambique: Fight against kidnappings must be scaled up – Nyusi

2:57 CAT | 24 Aug 2020

Photo: Presidency of the Republic

President Filipe Nyusi considers kidnapping one of the main challenges facing the city of Maputo, and is demanding that the fight against this type of crime be strengthened in the Mozambican capital.

“The fight against kidnappings must be scaled up,” President Nyusi told a meeting with officials from the city of Maputo on Friday at the end of a working visit to the Mozambican capital.

For Filipe Nyusi, kidnappings in the Mozambican capital are among the problems that most “touch the lives of citizens”, and it is necessary that strategies to fight this crime be revitalised.

Since the beginning of 2020, the Mozambican authorities have registered a total of nine abductions, always of businesspeople or their family members. Most of the cases occurred in the cities of Maputo and Matola, in the south of the country.

Of the cases this year, two victims were rescued by the authorities in Maputo, with a third victim released in conditions still to be clarified.

Among the entrepreneurs the police rescued was Indian philanthropist Rizwan Adatia, who spent 21 days in captivity in the district of Boane, southern Mozambique.

Source: Lusa