Cabo Delgado: Minister wants to investigate abandonment of construction works in schools

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Cabo Delgado: Minister wants to investigate abandonment of construction works in schools

5:39 CAT | 04 Feb 2021

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The Minister of Education and Human Development of Mozambique, Carmelita Namashulua, has asked the services she oversees in the northern province of Cabo Delgado to investigate the abandonment of school works contracts.

“It doesn’t work like that,” Minister Namashulua said at a meeting held with provincial leaders in Pemba on Tuesday, quoted today by Radio Mozambique; there are projects for classrooms where “construction started, we paid, but [they] are abandoned”.

Some cases date back as far as 2012, even before the armed insurgency now affecting parts of the province, the minister told the meeting with the provincial education directorate.

“If the responsibility for the negligence is ours, we must take action,” such as disciplinary or criminal proceedings, she said.

The meeting took place during a visit that the minister has been making to the province of Cabo Delgado since Sunday and encompassing several meetings, including with Metuge entities, where some of the camps for the war-displaced are located.

The armed violence which broke out in Cabo Delgado in 2017 is causing a humanitarian crisis with more than 2,000 dead and 560,000 people displaced, without adequate housing or food, mainly to the provincial capital, Pemba, and environs.

Some of the incursions have, since 2019, been claimed by the Islamic State ‘jihadist’ group.

Source: Lusa