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Mozambique: Tender suspended after alleged involvement of agriculture minister- AIM report
4:18 CAT | 28 Aug 2025
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A public tender budgeted at 130 million meticais (about two million US dollars at the current exchange rate), involving a company allegedly related to the Mozambican Minister of Agriculture, Roberto Albino, has been temporarily suspended “while inspection work is underway.”
The company in question, Future Technologies of Mozambique, was awarded the public tender by the country’s Cotton and Oilseeds Institute (IAOM) to develop and operate a digitalization platform for the cotton and oilseed value chains.
However, according to two prominent NGOs, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) and the Centre for Public Integrity (CIP), the company, which was only created in April of this year, is related to the minister and “in addition to the company lacking the time and technical capacity to do this job properly, its bid was more expensive than those of other companies that submitted bids for the contract.”
Reacting to the case, the Ministry of Agriculture has decided to suspend the tender, saying that “soon as we have new developments on the matter, we will provide the appropriate information to the general public.”
According to this document, the minister is indeed a partner in DonaWafica, holding 2% of Future Technologies of Mozambique, while a different company, Flamingo, holds 24 percent of the shares.
“However, the company DonaWafica, which was created in 2015, has never operated. This means that everything reported in the press and on other platforms is nothing more than a deliberate attempt to confuse public opinion, with mere speculation to convey the impression that the Minister of Agriculture interfered in the contracting process in question”, complains the Ministry’s document.
The note claims that the controversial tender was launched by the IAOM and is being conducted without external interference because “it is an institution with administrative, financial, and patrimonial autonomy.”
“Therefore, the contracting processes are not subject to any administrative action – in their entirety – by the Minister or Secretaries of State. The IAOM is governed by principles of independence, impartiality and exemption and that it respects the law and other decisions issued by other competent bodies”, reads the statement.
Nonetheless the tender has been scrapped which suggests that it was not as above board as the Ministry claims.
Source: AIM
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