By Nelson Sul D’Angola:
An armed man was arrested after approaching UNITA’s leader Isaías
Samakuva in a suspicious manner during a campaign rally in Benguela on August
28.
According to Maka Angola’s local sources, members of Samakuva’s
security team kept a close watch on three men who seemed to be behaving in an
unusual manner among the party supporters.
One of the three, armed with a pistol, tried to approach Samakuva but
was overpowered and held by UNITA’s security team. The Maka Angola
reporter, present at the scene, witnessed the event.
One of Samakuva’s security guards, speaking on condition of anonymity,
said that two of the three suspects made for the rear of the stage on which
Samakuva was speaking.
“It was there that we grabbed one of them, who was armed with a pistol.
The police became aware of the situation, detained the intruder and took him to
the PIR car immediately,” the source said.
UNITA’s provincial secretary in Benguela, Alberto Ngalanela, told Maka
Angola that the suspect is a soldier, known only as Silva. “We apprehended
his Walter pistol with the serial number P38CAL.9MM and registration number 33
12 96”.
This was the second such incident during UNITA activities in Benguela in
the past three days. On August 25, UNITA security officials uncovered a PIR
agent among party activists at a protest calling for transparent elections.
The agent was armed with a pistol, and was beaten by UNITA activists,
who held him for three hours until the protest had come to an end.
Mr. Ngalanela confirmed the identity of the agent as being Isaac
Silvano, 39 years old, who “belongs to the 3rd Garrison of the Rapid
Intervention Police, in Benguela.” According to UNITA’s provincial secretary,
the agent “had with him a pistol Barak [Israeli-made], with the registration
number 37601419.”
“We went to hand him over to the provincial commander of the National
Police, Commissioner [António] Sita, with whom we had a good conversation with
the provincial director of criminal investigation [Armando Vieira] also
present,” UNITA provincial secretary said.
However, the official in charge of Documentation, Analysis and
Information at the Provincial Police Command, Superintendent Vicente Nogueira,
declined to comment to Maka Angola on the issue.
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