Mozambique: Diname workers ask president for help after seven months without wages

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Mozambique: Diname workers ask president for help after seven months without wages

4:26 CAT | 09 Dec 2022

Photo: O País

More than 70 workers at the National Distributor of School Material (Diname), who have not been paid their wages for seven months, have now turned to the Office of the President of the Republic and the prime minister for help.

Employees of the Diname company, which is responsible for storing and distributing free school textbooks, have not received their wages for seven months. As previously, on the 11th of November, they this Thursday (08-12) went public to reinforce their claim for their salaries.

“After that claim we made, the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) sent us a commission composed of the General Inspectorate, the Department of Administration and Finance and the Legal Office, and promised that the salaries would be paid to us within ten working days. However, since November, we still haven’t seen our wages,” complains Andrade Matsine, representative of the Workers’ Commission.

Wanting to see their salaries in their accounts, Diname workers say that they have submitted a complaint to the Office of the President of the Republic. “We submitted a letter to the [Office of the] President of the Republic, asking for an intervention in the situation of the Diname workers. We submitted another letter to the Prime Minister’s Office, also reporting the problem in Diname,” Matsine said.

The letters have not however as yet been answered. Contacted by ‘O País’, Diname director general Assane Sufiane said he would react at an opportune moment.

Diname, which was created to support MINEDH in the distribution of school supplies, is in the process of transitioning from a state-owned to a public company. As a state-owned company, it lost the possibility of distributing school material, because the contract is awarded through a tender, and state-owned companies cannot enter into tenders made by other state entities.

Source: O País