Nampula: PRM seize four buckets of cannabis, arrest three striking ‘chapeiros’ – Ikweli report

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Nampula: PRM seize four buckets of cannabis, arrest three striking ‘chapeiros’ – Ikweli report

3:54 CAT | 24 Mar 2022

The four buckets.. [Photo: Ikweli]

The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in Nampula have announced the seizure of four buckets-full of cannabis sativa, commonly known as ‘soruma’, and arrested two individuals.

On the morning of Tuesday, 22nd March, the PRM summoned the press to the 2nd Police Station, to present the alleged owners and the 10-litre buckets of soruma, all destined for Anchilo Administrative post, where their contents were to be sold.

“I am detained here at the police station because I was found transporting these buckets of suruma,” one of the detainees confessed, adding that he was paying a debt to the owner of the product. “I owe this gentleman 2,000.00 meticais, and he told me to bring these buckets of suruma to settle the debt.”

In turn, the 39-year-old alleged owner of the soruma, also detained, told the media that the cannabis sativa was to pay people who work on his machambas in Anchilo. “I am here because of suruma. Given that I am a peasant, this suruma was to take to the machambas to give to the people who work there as payment, and another part was for me to sell and support my children,” he explained.

Chapeiros arrested on Monday

On the same occasion, the PRM presented to the press three more detainees, allegedly the ‘promoters’ of the strike devastating semi-collective transport sector.

“Yesterday [Monday 21-03] we witnessed here in the city a stoppage of semi-collective transport of passengers and goods,” a spokesperson explained. “When these individuals paralysed their activities, at some point they created a destabilisation of order, a fact that forced the police to intervene and make some arrests, which resulted in these three individuals [being detained].”

By Herminio Raja

Source: Jornal Ikweli