Kidnapping is high on the conversational rungs of everyone I have talked to this week. As a community, we are rattled. There were a total of five abductions in Maputo last week - three women, a businessman and a teenager. Not good.
One of the women taken last week managed to escape. What should be good news is in fact alarming since it is rumoured that she identified a policeman as one of her captors.
Then today the devastating news that a child kidnapped up North was killed. I can't find official notification, but the news on the ground is strong, although the motivation, through the accounts I have heard, is confused. Some say he was killed because his father couldn't pay up. Others say he was killed because they had actually grabbed the wrong child. Yet others say he was killed because he could identify his kidnappers.
Any-way you look at it, the situation has taken a grim turn for the worse. That the child is of a different demographic means nothing. He was killed. He was a child and was taken as a cash cow and disposed of. Awful for his family. Awful for this country.
And we all wonder where this goes next.
We all wonder if we should go.
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