Nyusi pledges to work tirelessly for peace

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Nyusi pledges to work tirelessly for peace

8:21 CAT | 10 May 2016

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Saturday pledged to continue “working tirelessly for peace, national unity, and the economic and financial stability of our country”.

Speaking at the closing session of a meeting of the National Committee of the Association of Veterans of the National Liberation Struggle (ACLLN), Nyusi stressed that “the general solution for the economic problems we face is centred on increasing production and productivity”.

“The traditional areas of our economy such as agriculture, infrastructures, energy and tourism remain the priority areas for the integrated and sustainable development of the country”, he said. “We are aware of the challenges that the country faces, but we should not be distracted from our main agenda. We shall remain focused on the search for rapid, visible and lasting solutions for the well being of our people”.

In an oblique reference to the country’s enormous foreign debt, Nyusi added “It is in times of crisis that the best children of this beautiful motherland stand revealed. It is in times of crisis that we develop our greatest capacity of knowing how to look for solutions, individually and collectively, in the certainty that we share the same destination”.

Mozambicans had faced greater struggles “and won them as a people. Our union and our common objectives were and continue to be determinant for our victories and for our conquests and nobody has the freedom to destroy them”.

At the end of the meeting, the ACLLN National Committee urged the government to continue a dual track approach to the rebel movement Renamo – to continue defending citizens from the attacks of Renamo gunmen while attempting to enter into a dialogue with the Renamo leadership in order to end military hostilities.

The ACLLN pledged that veterans “are fully and immediately willing to participate in the defence of sovereignty, the consolidation of peace and national unity, and the development of the country”.

As for the scandal of the guarantees issued by the previous government, under Nyusi’s predecessor, Armando Guebuza, for enormous, undisclosed loans, the ACLLN said the government should only take responsibility for that part of the debt which truly served public interests.

The commercial aspects of the debt should be the exclusive responsibility of the companies concerned and their shareholders. These companies are the Mozambique Tuna Company (EMATUM), Proindicus, formed to provide maritime security, and Mozambique Asset Management (MAM), which is supposed to provide ship repair and maintenance services. The total government guaranteed loans taken by these three companies amount to over two billion US dollars.

None of the three companies is operating at a profit, and their shareholders are all state or quasi-state institutions.

Source: AIM