Mozambique’s police accuses Renamo of cattle theft in Mossurize, Manica province

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Mozambique’s police accuses Renamo of cattle theft in Mossurize, Manica province

4:33 CAT | 30 Aug 2016

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Manica police have accused armed Renamo men of stealing 25 head of cattle and 30 goats from Joconhia, in Garagua, Mossurize district, and blocking roads to use as “corridors for looting”.

According to Manica police spokesman Elcidia Filipe, in a week largely free of military events, “Renamo, the main opposition party, on Saturday stole cattle and goats from breeders’ barns in the Manica village in territory favourable to the opposition”,

The official said that after learning of the theft, local police dispatched a team to the spot. They followed the tracks of the group and animals and managed, after dismantling barricades placed on the trail, to recover all the cattle.

It was not however possible to detain the miscreants, they having fled upon realizing the police were on their trail.

The police spokesman said that the police were now seeking to return the animals to their rightful owners.

“These are goods that were in the temporary illegal possession of these men, taken from many citizens who live in those whereabouts, and we will deliver them to the rightful owners,” Filipe said, noting in addition that incidents related to the looting of cattle, frequently attributed to the armed wing of the largest opposition party in Mozambique, were on the increase in the south of Manica.

Source: Voa Portugues