Mozambique Police Pledges to “Use All Means in Its Power” to Prevent Renamo Road Blocks

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Mozambique Police Pledges to “Use All Means in Its Power” to Prevent Renamo Road Blocks

5:21 CAT | 10 Feb 2016

In file Club of Mozambique / Members of the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR), special forces of the Mozambican police.

The Mozambican police on Tuesday guaranteed that it will use all means in its power to prevent Renamo from blocking major roads in the centre of the country.

The promise was given by Inacio Dina, spokesperson for the General Command of the police at his weekly press briefing in Maputo,

He was responding to threats made on Monday in Beira by Horacio Calavete, the Renamo head of mobilization in Sofala province, who claimed that Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama has ordered the Renamo militia to set up road blocks on the main north-south highway between the Save river and the Inchope crossroads in Manica province. There would also be “control points” on the roads from Inchope to Caia, and the bridge over the Zambezi river, and from Inchope to the western city of Tete.

“The police have a mandate to maintain public order and security”, he added. “The job of the police is to prevent illegal acts. We shall prevent any attempt to set up road blocks”.

Calavete said the threatened road blocks were Renamo’s response to alleged kidnappings and murder of its members and officials in the central provinces.

Dina said the police are pursuing criminals who have attacked not only Renamo members but also members and supporters of the ruling Frelimo Party. The latest such attack was on Friday night, when gunmen shot a community leader Cipriano Sineque and his son Antonio Cipriano, in the Sofala district of Nhamatanda. Both men are receiving medical treatment at Beira Central Hospital.

Source: AIM