Mozambique: Nyusi warns against lynch mobs – Watch

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Mozambique: Nyusi warns against lynch mobs – Watch

7:04 CAT | 02 Apr 2018

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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Monday urged the population of the southern province of Gaza not to take the law into their own hands by forming lynch mobs that kill alleged criminals.

Speaking at a rally in Licilo locality, in Limpopo district, reported by Radio Mozambique, on the first day of a working visit to Gaza, Nyusi recalled that there have been recent cases of lynchings in Chicumbane and Zonguene, in the same district. He urged his audience to be vigilant, and to denounce to the authorities anybody who tried to take the law into their own hands.

“The people of Gaza do not burn people alive”, he declared. There were, however, criminals who commit atrocities, but he urged law-abiding citizens “to hand these criminals over to the authorities”.

Nyusi stressed that “instead of discussing questions of crime, we should be concentrating on issues of development”. In response to this invitation, several members of the audience took the floor and stressed the need for more schools in the district, better roads, and improvements in the water and electricity supply.

Nyusi replied that he had taken note of these concerns. “When I was elected, I promised to expand the electricity supply and the road network”, he said, “and that’s what we are doing. I am continuing to say that our promises must be kept”.

Turning to health care, Nyusi pointed out “we have already inaugurated a hospital in Mapai, and now we want to build another hospital in Macia”. (Mapai and Macia are at opposite ends of Gaza province).

Nyusi also recalled the advances made in mobilising investment to mine the titanium bearing heavy mineral sands in Chibuto district, and to build an international airport. Gaza is the only Mozambican province that does not have an airport.