Mozambique: Two police instructors expelled over Matalana case – watch

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Mozambique: Two police instructors expelled over Matalana case – watch

4:38 CAT | 24 Nov 2020

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Justice Minister Helena Kida told the Assembly of the Republic on Thursday that two police instructors have been expelled from the force because they obliged women trainees from the Matalana police school in Maputo province to have sex with them.

She said this decision was taken after an investigation into the scandal which shocked Mozambican society when it became public in August. It was initially claimed that 15 trainees had been impregnated by their instructors, although the numbers were a matter of considerable dispute.

The Ministry of the Interior wanted to manage the matter internally, but the matter became public when a dispatch on the matter from the office of police general commander Bernadino Rafael was leaked.

President Filipe Nyusi declared “the State must not tolerate situations like this”, and promised a full investigation.

Kida told the Assembly that the outcome of the investigation was that “the instructors who became involved with the trainees and made them pregnant, were the object of disciplinary proceedings and have been expelled from the police force”.

She also told the deputies that the police have been investigating 13 cases of kidnapping, four in Maputo, three in the neighbouring city of Matola, four in Beira, and two in Manica province. Four people have been detained in connection with some of these crimes, she said.