Renamo conditions disarmament on signing MoU

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Renamo conditions disarmament on signing MoU

2:24 CAT | 02 Aug 2018

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Renamo said in an interview published yesterday that the party had not yet delivered the list of its military personnel it wants to see in Defence and Security Forces positions of command, subjecting the operation to the signing of a memorandum of understanding.

“The lists have not yet been delivered,” Osssufo Momade, interim coordinator of the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo), Mozambique’s main opposition party, said in an interview with the weekly newspaper Canal de Moçambique.

The president, Filipe Nyusi, said on June 11 at a press conference that he had reached agreement with Ossufo Momade that Renamo would deliver the list of officers of its armed wing it wanted to see integrated in the Defence and Security Forces (FDS) within ten days.

Nyusi made the announcement in the company of Momade after a meeting between the two leaders in the city of Beira, Sofala province, central Mozambique.

In an interview released today, Ossufo Momade says that the delivery of the list must be preceded by the signing of a memorandum of understanding, an act which has not yet happened.

“We had agreed [with the President of the Republic] on the elaboration of a memorandum of understanding, and the fact is that this memorandum of understanding has not yet been competed,” Renamo’s interim coordinator said.

Momade said that the disarming the organisation’s guerrillas could be accomplished by October.

Ossufo Momade also pointed out that Renamo requires that the reintegration of party officers who are “inside” the Defence Forces of Mozambique (FADM) takes place in parallel with the incorporation of those still inside the organisation’s armed wing.

“This is not a new requirement, it has always been clear. We want those who are inside the Defence Forces of Mozambique to be reinstated,” said Ossufo Momade.

Renamo’s interim coordinator said that the party further requires the presence of its staff in the State Information and Security Services (SISE), accusing the secret services of involvement in the death of members of opposition parties and others critical of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (Frelimo) government.

“There is no confidence in the SISE. If Renamo is not represented there, it will be as if nothing has been achieved,” he said.