More than a dozen mobile phone antennas have been vandalized in recent times in some districts of Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, for theft of copper wires and batteries.
According to the spokesman for the Police of the Republic (PRM) in the Provincial Command of the Corporation, Mário Adolfo, the acts of vandalism, registered in the districts of Montepuez, Ancuabe, Metuge, Mecúfi, targeted infrastructures of Vodacom and Movitel.
The damages are yet to be quantified and the material perpetrators to be identified, detained and forwarded to the authorities for the proper criminal proceedings.
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The spokesperson also informed that what worries the corporation the most is the similarity of these acts to those carried out by terrorists in some regions of the northern part of the province.
"Preliminary investigations indicate that the stolen wires are sold as scrap metal, but as a police officer we consider all the hypotheses, including that it is an action by well-structured groups, because the thefts have occurred in sequence", said.
To prevent acts of this kind in the future, Adolfo asked for the population's collaboration in denouncing the protagonists of these actions.
"While the investigation work is taking place, we would like to ask the communities to collaborate in denouncing the movement of strangers".
