Governor Introduces New Administrator, Urging Dhlakama’s Home District to Persuade Him to Meet Nyusi

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Governor Introduces New Administrator, Urging Dhlakama’s Home District to Persuade Him to Meet Nyusi

9:58 CAT | 14 Jan 2016

In file Club of Mozambique / Sofala Governor Helena Taipo.

The governor of the central Mozambican province of Sofala, Helena Taipo, has urged the population of Chibabava, the home district of Afonso Dhlakama, leader of largest opposition party Renamo, to convince Dhlakama to meet with President Filipe Nyusi.

Speaking on Tuesday, at a rally in Chibabava, where she introduced the new district administrator, Luis Nhanzozo, to the public, Taipo said a face-to-face meeting between Nyusi and Dhlakama was the path that should be followed to secure peace.

Cited in Wednesday’s issue of the Beira daily paper “Diario de Mocambique”, Taipo said it is the task of all Mozambicans to urge Dhlakama to leave his bush hideout and accept Nyusi’s invitation for a meeting. But Chibabava had a special responsibility, she argued, since this was the district where Dhlakama was born (and where his father is still a traditional chief).

“So once again we are asking all of you to urge our brother and your brother, Afonso Dhlakama, to leave the bush and go to Maputo to meet the President of the Republic”, Taipo appealed.

She also wanted Renamo gunmen to leave their militia bases, go back to their families “and stop intimidating, torturing, kidnapping and killing the population of Sofala”.

“Our people want to produce, to work, and to send their children to school in peace and security”, she declared.

Dhlakama has repeatedly rejected Nyusi’s invitations to a meeting, and in August he unilaterally suspended the dialogue between Renamo and the government which had been under way since April 2013.

Instead of talking to the government he has boasted of overthrowing it, Dhlakama has repeatedly threatened that Renamo “will govern” in six northern and central provinces as from March. This is a threat to stage a coup in those parts of the country he wants to grab.

Source: AIM