Mozambique: Nyusi warns against terrorist recruitment in Nampula

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Mozambique: Nyusi warns against terrorist recruitment in Nampula

7:23 CAT | 12 Dec 2022

Photo: Tribunal Supremo de Moçambique / Facebook

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi said on Friday that the northern province of Nampula should not be “a henhouse where terrorists are recruited”.

Speaking at the inauguration of a new court in the district of Liupo, he warned that the islamist terrorists active in the neighbouring province of Cabo Delgado are recruiting young people from Nampula to strengthen their ranks.

” Nampula cannot continue to be a barn or a henhouse for the terrorists”, he said. “The terrorists cannot see Liupo and Nampula as places where they come to fetch people who are then sent to kill others”.

Recruiters were mobilizing young people, by promising them money or jobs in Cabo Delgado. “An adult deceives a child by telling him he will have a job as a fisherman”, said Nyusi. “But why not fish in Quinga, Angoche, Pebane or Moma (places on the Nampula or Zambezia coasts)?”

Instead, they were sending their young targets to,places plagued by terrorism. “How can you fish in a place where people are shooting each other”, he asked.

Recruitment of youths by the terrorists, said Nyusi, can only end when young Mozambicans obey a single command.

“It’s best if you listen to the commands of those who are really in charge, and not to those who are not in charge, since you are putting yourselves in danger”, he continued. “Some of those who left from Memba district are not coming back. Nobody knows where they are. They go and nobody knows”.

The recruits were supposedly paid by the terrorists. But who were they spending this money with, if they had left their families behind in Nampula?

Nyusi said the new court in Liupo, could help put terrorist recruiters on trial.

“Help us denounce them, and those who are caught, their place will be here in this courtroom”, he stressed.

Before the construction of the Liupo court, judges and other legal staff used to work in deplorable conditions.

“We used to hold trials in the Mogincual courtroom, which is a building in an advanced state of decay. Often, we had to interrupt trials because it was raining”, said the Liupo district attorney, Lurdes Chissico.

“This new court is a gain”, she said, “not only for our judicial system, but also for the population of Liupo district, because it offers more dignity, and we can bring justice closer to citizens”.

The Liupo court cost about 50 million meticais (around 781,000 US dollars, at the current exchange rate), and was built under the presidential initiative to set up at least one decent court in every district.

Source: AIM