Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Défense and Security Forces (FDS) neutralized yet another leader of the terrorist group operating in Cabo Delgado: an individual identified as Issar Washio, considered one of the commanders of the terrorist group and very close to the main leadership of the group.
The announcement was made on Friday (26.05) by the President of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence and Security Forces, Filipe Nyusi, during the closing ceremony of the 43rd Police Basic Training Course, at the Practical School of Matalana, in Marracuene district, Maputo province.
President Nyusi said that he wanted to share news that he had received at the beginning of this week, even though he was outside the country.” It was the success that some of the colleagues – your colleagues from now on – colleagues who trained there where I closed the course this morning [special forces training school], on the 24th put out of fight one of the great commanders (very close to their commanders, Ibn or Óscar) a man named Issar Washio. He and his associates, were all put out of combat. It was news because we were coming to close, in this case, in honour of your colleagues, trained there at that centre “, he said.
In view of the successes that have been achieved in the fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado, the head of state encouraged the defence and security forces to continue implacable in their actions.
On the occasion, the general commander of the PRM, Bernardino Rafael, explained that the corporation has enough staff to guarantee public order and security in the next ten years in the country, hence the need to interrupt its training for the next three years.
He stressed that it is unthinkable to train, build, equip and modernize all at once, hence the need to separate the moments, assuming that the pillar of training human resources is minimized.
“ Today we have manpower to build on, from our smaller sub-units, which is the sector, police station, squadron, district commands, provincial commands, units and sub-units of special and reserve forces, branch commands and all levels, territorial,” he said.
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