Dhlakama says Mahamudo Amurane killer will never be revealed

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Dhlakama says Mahamudo Amurane killer will never be revealed

12:05 CAT | 03 Nov 2017

Voa (File photo) / Afonso Dhlakama

The Renamo president warned on Thursday that the killing of Nampula’s mayor, Mahamudo Amurane, a month ago, will end in silence because Mozambican authorities “do not have a culture of telling the truth.”

Afonso Dhlakama called the current investigations a farce and said that the perpetrators of the crime would never be known, accusing the government of condoning such silences, as has happened in other political assassinations.

“Has the Mozambican or Frelimo government ever told the truth when it comes to violence or crime?” Dhlakama asked, insisting that the authorities “only promise to investigate, promise to follow up and inform the public afterwards.”

“Even now [in the case of] the mayor of Nampula, I do not expect the government to say that it was Mr So-and-So [who murdered him]. They may arrest one or two because they had ‘big mouths’, but the perpetrators themselves, the gunmen, will never be presented,” said the leader of the largest opposition party in Mozambique.

Following the assassination of Mahamudo Amurane on October 4, the police arrested a building contractor and a municipal councillor who were with the then-president at the time of the attack, and subsequently charged them.

Details of the investigation since then into the death of the mayor, who was in the process of breaking with the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM), the third political force, representing which he was elected mayor of Nampula, are not known.

Source: Voa Portugues