Farmer arrested with 300 kg of suruma in Marínguè, Sofala
Police in Marínguè district, Sofala, detained a farmer found with 300 kg of cannabis sativa, known as suruma. The drug-combat office said he supplied much of Beira's cannabis and that the seizure would be incinerated the following week.
🇲🇿 Maringuè district, Sofala Province · Mozambique
Police in Marínguè district, in Sofala province, detained one Mozambican citizen
found in possession of cannabis.[1]The suspect is a farmer who, by all
available indications, dedicates himself to cultivating the drug.[1]António
Semendes, director of the Gabinete do Combate a Droga, the drug-combat office in
Sofala, addressed the detention.[1]Semendes said the detainee is one of those
responsible for most of the cannabis sativa that reaches Beira.[1]
Officers seized three hundred kilograms of cannabis sativa from the suspect’s
possession.[1]The seized drug is cannabis sativa, commonly known as suruma.[1]The quantity therefore amounts to 300 kg of suruma held in a single
possession case.[1]
Maringuè is the district where both the detention and the seizure took place,
within Sofala province.[1]According to Semendes, official steps were already
under way to have the entire seized drug consignment incinerated by the
following week.[1]The incineration was presented as the planned next step for
the seized consignment.[1]
Case data
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The article gives no separate date for the detention beyond reporting it as just having occurred, so 26 August 2022, the publication date, is used as the incident date.
The detained farmer's name, age and other identifying details were not published.
No charges, custody decision or court outcome were reported.
Only one accessible source for this event was found; searches for a second account of the Marínguè seizure did not return an openable result.
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