Agents from the State Information and Security Service (SISE) have their sights set on the election observers from the Center for Public Integrity (CIP) deployed in the districts of some of the country's provinces.

One of the cases is in Gaza province, in the district of Bilene, where SISE agents are infiltrating an organization called ANABIL (Amigos e Naturais de Bilene), according to the complaint in the CIP elections bulletin.

"... it is made up of some teachers, mainly school and pedagogical directors, and undercover agents from the State Information and Security Services (SISE). The reasons for this are unknown," reads the document.

In conversation with MZNewsA CIP source explained that the case of Bilene is not isolated and is happening all over the country, in the districts where SISE observers are based. He also said that in other similar situations the observers have suffered some kind of pressure from SISE.

"This is not new. We've already had a case like this in Manica. So SISE should worry about other more important things, and not about the work of citizens," he appealed.

"Our observers know that they are SISE agents because they know such individuals," he said, noting that "it is the SISE agents themselves, including their District Directors, who warn the observers about the [parallel] surveillance".

According to the source, this is an intimidation strategy that has caused discomfort among observers. He warned that SISE's idea is to absorb all the information sent to the central CIP.

"They tell the observers to give them all the information they give to the CIP. And they lie to the observers saying that they have been trained by the CIP to carry out the same kind of service," he revealed.