This Friday (21), Judge Lucílio Nhanombe, who is trying the case of the attempted murder of Nini Satar, ordered the removal of one of the lawyers who was in the hearing room at the Maximum Security Prison in Machava, Maputo province.

The order followed the defendant Edson Muianga's revelation that Nini Satar had sent one of the lawyers present in the room to accompany him in the case.

At the time, Muianga said that while he was in prison he received threats from Nini Satar so that he would record audios confessing his involvement in the assassination plot, on the promise that he would later be given a lawyer and everything would return to normal.

Radio Mozambique reports that during the threats, Muianga was coerced into naming senior government figures, but refused to do so.

According to the source, after these statements "the courtroom almost froze over", and then Judge Lucílio Nhanombe ordered the withdrawal of the judicial representative who, until then, had been representing Nini Satar, the alleged murder victim.

Nhanombe pointed out that the lawyer in question could be heard as a witness to clarify the case.

The defendant José Ngulele, a member of the Defense and Security Forces, is due to be heard later today.