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Mozambique: Former mayor accused of corruption – AIM
8:25 CAT | 09 Jul 2021
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The Nampula Provincial Office for the Fight against Corruption, in northern Mozambique, has accused Saide Amur Gimba, a former mayor of Mozambique Island municipality, of heading a scheme in 2017 to divert three million meticais (about 47,300 US dollars, at current exchange rates) intended to fight coastal erosion, reports Thursday’s issue of the independent newssheet “Carta de Mocambique”.
According to Jose Sopa, the spokesperson for the anti-corruption office, Gimba and his team requested this money for a project to protect the island from erosion – but the project was never implemented.
Sopa did not say whether the former mayor will be detained, or whether the Public Prosecutor’s Office has already submitted the case to court.
Gimba was elected mayor on the ticket of the ruling Frelimo Party in the municipal elections of 2013. He lost his position in the 2018 local elections, when the main opposition party, Renamo, took control of Mozambique Island.
Source: AIM
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