Officers that were previously stationed at the Namaacha border, Eswatini and South Africa, have been reshuffled by the Mozambique police boss for allegedly taking bribes to allow illegal migration.
In effect to this development, an announcement was made by Police chief, Bernardino Rafael that all members of the frontier force were facing disciplinary proceedings.
According to Mr Rafael, who said, for fairness, all had to go also disclosed that though the bribery allegations did not involve all officers.
It was also discovered that there is the airing of a story by local television station STV, on how police routinely allowed Mozambicans to illegally cross the border into South Africa .
Meanwhile, to confirm the bribe allegation, the police boss said investigations into claims made in the story found them to be true.
The spike in Covid-19 cases in the region has also been tied to the Illegal immigration during the festive season.
