Mbanza Kongo – A 31-year-old Angolan citizen, charged with the crime of promoting and assisting illegal immigration, was arrested on Wednesday by the National Police, in the municipality of Nzeto, Zaire province.
The accused was questioned and detained at the police station on the Loge River, bordering the province of Bengo, when he was transporting six foreign citizens from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in an irregular migration situation, in a vehicle bound for the country's capital, Luanda.
Speaking to ANGOP on Thursday, the spokesperson for the Zaire Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of the Interior, Sérgio Afonso, explained that the alleged guide charged 250 thousand kwanzas per individual.
He added that the Toyota Corolla vehicle, in which, in addition to the driver, the guide and the six illegal immigrants from the DRC, were traveling, came from the city of Mbanza Kongo, capital of the province of Zaire.
“Before arriving at the police station on the Loge River, the driver made the guide and the six foreigners get off, a fact that raised suspicion among the corporation staff stationed there,” the source said.
Then, he added, law enforcement and security forces launched an action in the vicinity of the town that culminated in the arrest of the guide and the six citizens of the neighboring country.
Sérgio Afonso, once again, called on to the population to continue collaborating with the authorities, denouncing the perpetrators.
This is the second arrest of illegal immigrants bound for Luanda that the National Police in Zaire has made since the beginning of this year.
The first, which resulted in the arrest of four foreigners of different nationalities, took place at the beginning of this month, in the municipality of Nzeto. JL/DOJ
