Kenya: Keep off the Makonde affairs, envoy tells imposters - report
In file Club of Mozambique / Agostinho Trinta.
Last year, the Central Committee approved a directive stating that no Frelimo member can hold an executive position in the Party and be a member of the country’s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, at the same time. Friday’s Central Committee meeting was called to put this directive into practice.
Four people are leaving the secretariat to concentrate on their parliamentary work. They are the Secretary for Organisation, Sergio Pantie (who is also deputy leader of the Frelimo parliamentary group), the Secretary for the Economic Area, Edson Macuacua (who chairs the Assembly’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs Commission), the Secretary for the Party’s Social Organisations, Carlos Moreira Vasco (who sits on the Assembly’s Adminisrative Council), and the Secretary for Mobilisation and Propaganda, Damiao Jose.
The directive did not bar members of the Secretariat from holding government positions – but implicit in Nyusi’s opening remarks was that this too should no longer be acceptable. Hence, at the meeting, the two Secretariat members who hold government jobs resigned from the Secretariat – they are the Secretary for Parliamentary and Municipal Affairs, Carmelita Namashalua (who is Minister of State Administration), and the Secretary for Training and Cadres, Amelia Nakhare (who is head of the Mozambique Tax Authority).
Clearly these two resignations were not expected – for there were only five candidates for positions on the Secretariat, but six vacancies.
The candidates were: the former Minister of Mineral Resources, Esperanca Bias, the Governor of Inhambane province, Agostinho Trinta, the administrator of Monapo district, in the northern province of Nampula, Chakil Aboobakar, Helena Muando and Antonio Niquice.
Bias, Muando and Niquice are all parliamentary deputies. Elected to the Secretariat they must resign their parliamentary seats, just as Trinta and Aboobakar will have to resign their government positions.
The Central Committee has 210 full members, of whom 206 are attending the meeting.
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