Security conditions for a Nyusi/Dhlakama face-to-face? Not now, says Renamo

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Security conditions for a Nyusi/Dhlakama face-to-face? Not now, says Renamo

4:30 CAT | 05 Feb 2016

Jornal Notícias (File) / Afonso Dhalakama and Filipe Nyusi photographed in a meeting held in February 2015, in Maputo.

Renamo does not see the security conditions necessary for the holding of a meeting between President Filipe Nyusi and opposition party leader Afonso Dhlakama to address the situation in the country, Notícias reported on Tuesday (February 2).

According to Renamo spokesman António Muchanga, at this point, objective security conditions for Afonso Dhlakama “to leave the place he is now and come to Maputo to meet President Nyusi” do not exist.

“What is necessary is that president Dhlakama be allowed to circulate freely with his men so that his safety can be guaranteed,” Muchanga said in a statement to Notícias.

According to Muchanga, the Renamo leader security situation deteriorated when his convoy was shot at on September 12, 2015 in Manica, an incident which repeated itself in Gondola on September 25.

Muchanga was responding to the concern the president, Filipe Nyusi, expressed on Sunday in Addis Ababa when he said there were difficulties in the dialogue with Renamo aimed at restoring peace and tranquility in the country. However, the president said that everything possible is being done for the dialogue to be resumed.

According to President Nyusi, the government has said often that all stakeholders are free to support the process of establishing peace and tranquility in the country, but not a single one has come forward with a concrete proposal as to what should happen.

“I realize that the day we say that Renamo will rule in its six provinces, people will say that this is not democracy, and we will just have created another problem,” the president said, adding that when there are elections witnessed and recognized by observers, and results are proclaimed, usually there is no room for the kind of problems facing Mozambique, and this is an indication that something is not right.

“We are having difficulty with our interlocutor. The confusion between the government and Renamo. This dilemma with Renamo is maybe a problem due to a leadership crisis. How can one speak and with whom? Where is the person? The structure of Renamo does not allow us to understand who is following who, and this often creates mistrust within the organization itself,” he said.

The president said that in an organization where there is proper hierarchy, one does not know who is in charge and who isn’t, or who is above whom.

“We know that the leader is Dhlakama but then what? We talk to whom? We do what? Is it known who is the first among them? Or perhaps everyone thinks they are second or third. This is not helping,” Nyusi said, adding that the government will continue to make efforts to resume the dialogue unilaterally interrupted by Renamo in August, because, he said,” the problems of the Mozambican people need to be resolved to allow the country to grow”.

Source: Jornal Notícias