Nampula citizens protest murder of Amurane – AIM report

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Nampula citizens protest murder of Amurane – AIM report

9:51 CAT | 05 Oct 2017

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Thick clouds of black smoke billowed into the clouds above the northern Mozambican city of Nampula on Thursday morning as angry crowds, protesting against the murder of Nampula mayor, Mahamudo Amurane, the previous evening erected barricades and set fire to tyres on some of the main roads.

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The police described the demonstration as “illegal”, and set about removing the obstacles. The spokesperson for the General Command of the police, Inacio Dina, told reporters that the protesters should find legal means of expressing their grief and anger.

Interviewed by the independent television station STV several of the demonstrators, who were overwhelmingly young, expressed their outrage at the killing, and praised Amurane for his work as mayor, claiming that he had cleaned up the city.

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One of those interviewed had no doubt that Amurane’s own party, the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), was behind the assassination. He recalled the recent bitter dispute between Amurane and the MDM, in which Nampula MDM members had shouted “Get out, you traitor!” at the mayor.

The MDM, however, regards such claims as “disinformation”, and, after a meeting of the MDM Political Committee in Beira, the Party’s leader, Daviz Simango strongly condemned the assassination.

Indeed expressions of shock and condemnation have come from across the political spectrum. Both President Filipe Nyusi, and Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the Renamo rebels, condemned the murder in strong terms.All three parties represented in the Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, namely the ruling Frelimo Party, Renamo and the MDM itself, demanded speedy action from the police in tracking down the killers.

Source: AIM