Frelimo must “search ceaselessly for solutions” – Nyusi

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Frelimo must “search ceaselessly for solutions” – Nyusi

8:10 CAT | 10 Oct 2016

Magazine Independente / Filipe Nyusi in his capacity of Frelimo party president speaks at the Central Committee meeting. At the table with him are CC members Eliseu Machava (left) and Alberto Chipande (right) .

The political line of Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo Party “rests on the ceaseless search for the problems our people face”, declared President Filipe Nyusi on Saturday in the southern city of Matola.

Closing a two day extraordinary session of the Frelimo Central Committee, Nyusi said “Mozambicans want and deserve more clean drinking water, more electricity, good quality education, humane health care, decent housing and a state of social justice”.

Achieving these goals “is an unshakeable commitment given by Frelimo to the Mozambican people”, he added.

Nyusi pointed out that Mozambique is richly endowed with natural resources on land and at sea, and in the preparations for the Frelimo 11th Congress, scheduled for September 2017, “we must discuss how to make the best use of these resources, by raising production, productivity and competitiveness”.

At the top of the list of priorities, the President said, “we must place food and nutritional security as one of the dimensions of our sovereignty”.

Through the theme “Unity, Peace and Development”, adopted as the Party’s motto as it prepares for the Congress, “we are restating our conviction that without Unity and without Peace, we cannot attain the Development that Mozambicans long for”, Nyusi insisted. “We are restating our commitment to doing everything so that, once and for all, concord, reconciliation and an effective and lasting peace may reign in Mozambique”.

He called for open debate in the run-up to the Congress, in which differences should be welcomed. The Mozambican population was mostly young, and highly critical “and so we should look favourably on new ideas, valuing differences, and encouraging a more frank and sincere debate”.

“Our common goal should be to ensure that the decisions we take result from a broad consensus among Party members and bodies”, Nyusi added. “That is a primordial condition for Frelimo victories in the challenges we have ahead of us”.

The Central Committee revised the Frelimo directives on inner-party elections, including the election of Congress delegates, and the Party’s code of conduct (documents which have not yet been made public).

Revising these documents was “not a mere formality”, said Nyusi. “They should guide the activity of all members in revitalizing Party bodies so as to ensure continuity and renewal in an environment of comradeship and the strengthening of internal cohesion”.

The next stage in congress preparations is the training of Central Brigades to familiarize them with the documents approved by the Central Committee. One Central Brigade, headed by a member of the Frelimo Political Commission, will be dispatched to each of the 11 provinces. Subordinate to them, provincial and district brigades will be formed. The task of the brigades is to ensure that the inner-party elections run smoothly, and obey the principles laid down in the Frelimo statutes and directives.

These brigades “must not constitute a threat”, warned Nyusi. “They do not replace the local party bodies. They are the eyes of the higher ranking structures and their task is to support the political work on the ground”.

Brigade members, he said, “have the duty to act with discipline and integrity, inspiring confidence among members at each level”.

The preparations for the Congress, Nyusi declared, would be a moment for Frelimo “to reaffirm its historic role as the leader of political, economic and social transformations in Mozambique”.

Source: AIM