Mozambique: MDM promises to take remote areas out of isolation – AIM report

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Mozambique: MDM promises to take remote areas out of isolation – AIM report

7:22 CAT | 30 Sep 2019

Photo: MDM - Gabinete de Informação, Facebook

Daviz Simango, the leader and presidential candidate of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) on Saturday promised that an MDM government will take remote areas of the southern province of Inhambane out of their current isolation.

Speaking in the village of Thithe in the interior of Zavala district, Simango said “No Mozambican population should live in isolation. We as the MDM will do away with this, since we cannot remain tied to the past. We want to free you from this suffering”.

He accused the government of the ruling Frelimo Party of ignoring the difficulties of Mozambicans living in the interior.

“The government is not there to give opportunities”, he said, “and I shall not rest while this discrimination exists”.

He claimed that many children in the Inhambane interior “are dying for lack of medical care”, while young girls are forced into child marriages because their families have no money.

The MDM is also promising to invest in good quality schools equipped with desks for the children, and to provide educational material for the teachers. He said there is no justification for children sitting on the floor when Mozambique has so much wood in its forests that could be used to make desks.

Simango was due to campaign on Sunday in Gaza province, generally regarded as a Frelimo stronghold.

Simangogaza.fbmdm_ — *Photo: MDM – Gabinete de Informação, Facebook*

His first stop was Mandlakazi district, where the MDM local delegate, Boaventura Nhantumbo, claimed “we feel enormous support for our manifesto and for the messages we have been transmitting about our project for governance”.

“We are the sure alternative for governance in this country”, he said, “because we are a party of peace and harmony between all political stakeholders and society in general. We are the guarantee of stability and of the integrated development of the country”.

Source: AIM