Africa-Press – Mozambique. Visiting Inhambane province in southern Mozambique, Renamo President Ossufo Momade has “denounced the persecution and torture of militants and the expulsion of teachers who are members of the main opposition party in the country”.
The government has already denied the accusations.
The leader of Mozambique’s largest opposition party, who has been visiting different provinces, says that Renamo members who work for the state, especially teachers, are being persecuted and expelled from their posts.
Momade claims that the government has been taking measures that reveal a lack of political will for true national reconciliation, saying that “a culture and a policy of exclusion is being developed and implemented” all over the country.
The director of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Adriano Nuvunga, considers, in turn, that Mozambique is not a democratic country “because political violence, electoral violence and intimidation are used as instruments of governance”.
The Renamo president says that, given the problems that afflict cadres and party members, it is essential to win the next elections, to which end he has been visiting all Mozambican provinces, with the focus on those in the south.
The government however denies all of Renamo’s accusations, stating that any case of persecution or torture must be reported to the police authorities to be properly investigated and the perpetrators punished.
