Four foreign citizens of different nationalities were, on Tuesday, detained by the National Police (PN), in the municipality of Nzeto, province of Zaire, when they intended to reach the country’s capital, Luanda
These are two citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one from Congo Brazzaville and the same number from Guinea Conakry.
According to the spokesperson for the Zaire Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of the Interior, Sérgio Afonso, in statements yesterday to ANGOP, the aforementioned immigrants, coming from the municipality of Soyo (Zaire), were being escorted by a national citizen who He charged 200 thousand kwanzas for each one in order to take them to the Angolan capital.
“They were traveling on a tourist trip and stationed near a police station, the supposed guide abandoned them and ran away,” explained the spokesperson.
Sérgio Afonso said that the detention of these foreigners in an irregular migration situation had the collaboration of local people, who reported to the authorities the presence of “strange people” in the forests of that district.
He informed that law enforcement and security forces are taking steps to capture the guide who is on the run.
The municipality of Nzeto, bordering the province of Bengo, is 230 kilometers from the city of Mbanza Kongo, capital of the province of Zaire.