Nyusi warns against “opportunists” seeking to undermine efforts to achieve an effective peace

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Nyusi warns against “opportunists” seeking to undermine efforts to achieve an effective peace

5:13 CAT | 11 May 2017

File photo / President Filipe Nyusi

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday urged Mozambicans to remain vigilant against “opportunists” who were seeking to undermine efforts to achieve an effective peace.

Speaking at a rally in the Cazuzu locality, in Murrupula district, in the northern province of Nampula, Nyusi said that although the dialogue for peace was advancing, there could exist opportunists who try to create difficulties, giving the impression that no progress is being made in the talks between the government and Renamo.

The true promoter of peace is the Mozambican people, Nyusi said, and for that reason all Mozambicans are called upon to make their contribution to restore effective peace, as the basic condition for development.

Recalling the recent low level Renamo insurrection, Nyusi said that Morrupula “lived through attacks which caused deaths and disturbed the free movement of people. But the district is now living through a moment of calm with the cessation of hostilities. Even so, I am not yet satisfied, because we need to live in absolute peace”.

“Mozambicans cannot live in setbacks and fear”, declared the President. “The opportunists are among us. The efforts to seek peace are not the task solely of the President, but of everybody. We are doing what the people want to be done”,

Nyusi was pleased at the expansion of the education network in Nampula, and of advances in public health, notably a decline in the prevalence of malaria. But that was not sufficient – although about four million mosquito nets had been distributed in the province they were not all being used correctly. Furthermore, to defeat malaria it was also necessary to allow health brigades to spray insecticide on people’s homes.

He had visited a local agricultural and livestock fair, where the exhibitors had guaranteed that there will be no hunger in Nampula this year, because the province has produced enough food for its own sustenance, and to sell to other provinces.

He admitted that people now face difficulties with the high prices of goods. He regarded these as problems of poverty which could only be solved by increasing production.

Source: AIM