{"id":20038,"date":"2022-05-24T16:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drain-covers-stolen-for-scrap-in-maputo-city-3-million-meticais-damage-last-year"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:29:38","slug":"drain-covers-stolen-for-scrap-in-maputo-city-3-million-meticais-damage-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drain-covers-stolen-for-scrap-in-maputo-city-3-million-meticais-damage-last-year","title":{"rendered":"Drain covers stolen for scrap in Maputo city: 3 million meticais \u2018 damage last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The vandalisation and theft of drain covers cost the Maputo municipality around three million meticais [US$47,000] last year alone, it was announced on Televis\u00e3o de Mo\u00e7ambique.<\/p>\n<p>According to the city council, the drain covers are removed by unknown individuals of bad faith, and sold, it is suspected, to scrap yards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen drain covers are stolen, great damage is caused to the municipality. The culverts are left open and people fall in, or cars do, and some individuals deposit garbage in them, and this ends up blocking the drainage and sanitation system, preventing adequate drainage on rainy days,\u201d a municipality source explained.<\/p>\n<p>Among the solutions at the municipality\u2019 disposal are the use of less attractive concrete covers and the improvement of security in places more prone to these acts of vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>By Marta Afonso<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\">Mozambique<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. The vandalisation and theft of drain covers cost the Maputo municipality around three million meticais [US$47,000] last year alone, it was announced on Televis\u00e3o de Mo\u00e7ambique. According to the city council, the drain covers are removed by unknown individuals of bad faith, and sold, it is suspected, to scrap yards. \u201cWhen drain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-20038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Drain covers stolen for scrap in Maputo city: 3 million meticais \u2018 damage last year - Mozambique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/drain-covers-stolen-for-scrap-in-maputo-city-3-million-meticais-damage-last-year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drain covers stolen for scrap in Maputo city: 3 million meticais \u2018 damage last year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. 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