{"id":11523,"date":"2022-01-05T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2022-01-05T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:13:16","slug":"police-members-ordered-to-vaccinate-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/police-members-ordered-to-vaccinate-against-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Police members ordered to vaccinate against Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The General Commander of the Mozambican police, Bernadino Rafael, has ordered all members of the police force to ensure that they are vaccinated against the Covid-19 respiratory disease \u2013 but this rational public health measure has led to howls in some quarters that Rafael is violating the human rights of policemen.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the first graduation parade of 2022, each member of the Mozambican police must bring his or her vaccination card\u201d, said Rafael. \u201cAnyone entering the parade ground must show a vaccination card\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a request \u2013 it\u2019s an order that the General Commander is giving\u201d, declared Rafael. He warned that anyone who did not bring a vaccination card would be marked as absent.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s issue of the independent newssheet \u201cCarta de Mocambique\u201d, gave space to a human rights lawyer, Joao Nhampossa, to denounce Rafael in an article which talks, absurdly, of a \u201cvaccine dictatorship\u201d.<\/p>\n

Up until now, Mozambique has been refreshingly free of \u201cvaccine denialism\u201d or \u201cvaccine hesitancy\u201d \u2013 but here was a lawyer claiming that a basic public health measure is a violation of human rights.<\/p>\n

Nhampossa claimed that there is nothing in the Mozambican Constitution about compulsory vaccination. This is true. But there is also nothing in the Constitution that obliges motorists and their passengers to wear seat belts, and nothing that bans smoking in public places.<\/p>\n

Nhampossa accused Rafael of limiting \u201cthe right to work and the right to choose\u201d of members of the police force. He claimed that Rafael is abusing his power. \u201cIf the orders issued by the General Commander have no legal basis, this means that they are arbitrary, and contradict the operational rules of the public administration\u201d. That in turn meant that they contradicted human rights, and the right to justice of police members.<\/p>\n

Nhampossa seems entirely unaware that Mozambique is in the grip of the fourth wave of a potentially lethal pandemic, against which vaccination is the most powerful weapon available.<\/p>\n

Members of the police come into contact, every day, with the public. An unvaccinated policeman is likely to spread the disease, and so Rafael\u2019s order makes perfectly good sense, even if there is no specific clause in the Constitution which says \u201cpublic servants must be vaccinated\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nhampossa thought it urgent that the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, as the guarantor of legality, step in to overturn Rafael\u2019s order \u2013 otherwise it could have a multiplier effect on other sectors.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it should have a multiplier effect! That would be entirely salutary. The only way we know to defeat the pandemic is through mass vaccination.<\/p>\n

It is strange to find a prominent Mozambican lawyer taking the same side as the vaccine denialists on the right wing of the American Republican Party or of the British Conservative Party, who are already complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mozambique<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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