The district director of STAE in Quelimane, Hassan Hussein, accuses the Mozambique Republic Police of having been negligent in the theft of voter registration equipment.

The equipment was stolen on Wednesday night from Murripué Primary School in Quelimane, where a census office is located. It was a laptop computer and a charger that had been stored in one of the rooms at Murripué Primary School.

The STAE director says that the police officer assigned to guard the equipment "wasn't there when it happened". This, according to him, only proves what civil society is saying.

has been saying that there is a lack of "commitment by the police force in the process" and that there is complicity by the PRM in the anomalies that are recorded at the various voter registration offices.

Hassan Hussein said that the disappearance of the equipment did not mean that "the data of voters who had previously been registered had not been lost". He guaranteed that another piece of equipment would be repositioned this Thursday so as not to slow down the process. (CIP Elections)