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MDM deputies paid their tribute to Daviz Simango at the opening of the III ordinary session of the IX Legislature of the Assembly of the Republic.
“This Parliamentary Bench is the work of your personal commitment. Go in peace, Mr President, assured that we, your companions, will continue to fight for your ideal of ‘A Mozambique for All’,” said Fernando Bismarque, speaking for Lutero Siango, the leader of the bench, who has been attending to the funeral arrangements for his brother, who passed away on Monday.
“This Parliamentary Bench is the work of your personal commitment, which, with your ingenuity, in the light of the epic Revolution of 28 August, started a historic process that culminated with the founding of the MDM, and its consequent entry into this House of the People as the third political force, thereby breaking party bipolarization,” Bismarque said.
Speaking on Thursday (25) in the plenary session that opened another ordinary session of parliament, the deputy promised: “Go in peace, Mr. President, assured that we, your companions, will continue the fight for your ideal of ‘A Mozambique For All’. Go in peace, assured that we, your companions know how to honour your legacy. Go in peace, Mr. President, assured that this MDM bench will continue to defend the values you have always taught: work, integrity and love of the people. ‘Djimaste’, a great combat companion, Daviz Simango, rest in peace!”.
The remains of the president of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) and mayor of the city of Beira, who died of illness in South Africa, arrived on Thursday (25) in the capital of Sofala province, where an official funeral will take place on Saturday.
The MDM Parliamentary Bench said it does not “make sense that after 45 years of our independence, we continue to be a colony in the health sector, that we are dependent on external aid because internally we have been tempted to neglect this sector, so important for our survival” and suggested that the government should intervene in the private health market where “there has been a lot of opportunism and lack of professional ethics and deontology in some private hospitals, where profit instead of life has become the highest value”.
Fernando Bismarque demanded the accountability of those responsible for the illegal debts of Proindicus, EMATUM and MAM. “To refuse the hold accountable the perpetrators of this crime is to admit failure in the fight against corruption and the collapse of a justice system that has proved to be strong against the weak, and painfully weak against the strong,” Bismarque said. He further accused “the government of the day” of being “the negative practical example [of the above-mentioned failures], in encouraging corruption through unjustified direct awards, contracting works without the endorsement of the Administrative Tribunal, deviating from application, and [making] undue payments contrary to the rules.”
The remains of the president of the Democratic Movement of Mozambique (MDM) arrived by plane to a waiting crowd at Beira International Airport at around 8:00 p.m..
Waiting were the Simango family, friends, members of the MDM, Governor of Sofala Lourenço Bulha, Secretary of State Stella Pinto Novo Zeca, and the military, who loaded the urn into the vehicle that transported it to the Municipal Council building.
The atmosphere was charged with emotion on the part of the relatives and congregations of various confessions who had waited since 1:00 p.m.. Due to the delay in the arrival of the urn, the funeral in Santa Isabel cemetery was changed from Friday to Saturday (27).
Public ceremonies are to take place in the municipality on Friday, with a farewell procession through the city,explained the MDM spokesman Sande Carmona.
President Filipe Nyusi is attending the funeral on Saturday.
Daviz Simango died at the age of 57.
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