The National Police command in Bié province seized 42 kilograms of liamba in one week under its programme against drugs.[1] Police spokesman Chief Superintendent António Hossi gave the figures to Angop.[1] Liamba, the local term for cannabis used in the police account, was described as the seized drug.[1]
Hossi said officers also destroyed 52 liamba plants besides the seized drugs.[1] In the same weekly results, officers destroyed two makeshift sites for making aguardente caseira, a home-brew spirit, and dumped 400 litres of the product.[1] Those aguardente sites and liquid are not cannabis and are excluded from the cannabis figures.[1]
Police said a group called Tinex, with three members who robbed motorbikes and other items using a firearm, was dismantled in the same period.[1] In the same period, the force said it carried out six micro-operations that recovered three AKM firearms, 22 model-43 rounds, one 82-mm mortar projectile, one 60-mm mortar projectile and 13 ZU-23 projectiles.[1] The Tinex robbery case is a separate non-cannabis result reported in the same period and is not counted in the cannabis figures.[1] The recovered firearms and ammunition are separate non-cannabis results reported in the same period and are not counted in the cannabis figures.[1]
