Nyusi lays wreath at Heroes’ Monument in Maputo

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Nyusi lays wreath at Heroes’ Monument in Maputo

4:02 CAT | 04 Feb 2016

Jornal Notícias

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi declared on Wednesday that the heroes who fell in the struggle to liberate the country from Portuguese colonial rule “do not signify only the past, but also the present, and they will signify the future – the future that we are all building”.

Nyusi was speaking after laying a wreath at Maputo’s Monument to the Mozambican Heroes on the occasion of Heroes’ Day – the anniversary of the assassination 47 years ago of Eduardo Mondlane, the founder and first President of the Mozambique Liberation Front (Frelimo), generally regarded as the founder of Mozambican nationality and the architect of national unity.

The future that Mozambicans are building, Nyusi said, should reflect the efforts and sacrifices made by the country’s heroes during the liberation war. He stressed that the goal of the country’s heroes, was not merely to throw out the Portuguese colonialists, but to ensure independence in the economic as well as the political sphere.

“While the people still do not have drinking water, electricity, sufficient schools and hospitals, we still have not competed the mission for which our heroes fell”, he declared. “This is a moment for reflection, for commitment to the development of Mozambique”.

Among those who came to the monument to pay tribute to Mondlane and the country’s other heroes were members of the ruling Frelimo Party and of the opposition Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), carrying the flags of their respective parties. But, as usual with all state occasions and commemorative dates, there was no sign at all of Renamo, the main opposition party.

Source: AIM