Mbanza Kongo – Four foreign citizens of different nationalities were detained on Tuesday by the National Police (PN) in the municipality of Nzeto, Zaire province, when they intended to reach the country's capital, Luanda.
They are two citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one from Congo Brazzaville and the other from Guinea Conakry.
According to the spokesman for the Zaire Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of the Interior, Sérgio Afonso, speaking to ANGOP today, the immigrants, from the municipality of Soyo (Zaire), were being escorted by a national citizen who charged 200,000 kwanzas per person to transport them to the Angolan capital.
“They were traveling on a tourist and posted in the vicinity of a police station, the alleged guide abandoned them and fled,” the spokesman explained.
Sérgio Afonso said that the detention of these foreigners, in an irregular migratory situation, had the collaboration of the local people, who denounced 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. JL/DOJ
