Samito: ‘The people are abandoning us’ – By Joseph Hanlon

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Samito: ‘The people are abandoning us’ – By Joseph Hanlon

1:44 CAT | 29 Jan 2019

Samora Machel Junior (file photo)

Samora Machel Jr (“Samito”) wrote to President Filipe Nyusi at the weekend calling on him to “convene a grand meeting [of Frelimo], to discuss, without reserve and limitations, the current state of the Party and the Country.”

“The Party has stopped discussing its problems and stopped contributing to the country’s governance. Those who look at reality from the outside realise that the management of the Party and, consequently, the governance of the Country, is increasingly alienated from the contributions of the bases and the People,” he continues.

He cites the secret debt, growing insecurity in the north, increasing corruption, the way exploitation of resources and land is controlled by cartels, and “the inability to make Mozambique self-sustaining in food.”

“At various times in our recent history, we have made partisan decisions without respecting the contribution of the various constituencies that make up our Party. [And] we end up provoking negative situations, whether for the Party or for the Country, whose responsibilities we do not want to assume.”

He concludes that “the people are abandoning us [Frelimo]”.

Samito is a member o the Frelimo Central Committee and the son of Samora and Josina Machel. He tried to stand as head of a citizens list in the local elections in Maputo last October, but the list was excluded after Frelimo put pressure on several people to resign. Samora Machel Jr is chair of Montepuez Ruby Mining.

Source: News Reports & Clippings