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The flag hoisting conundrum: Renamo political delegate arrested for disobeying community leader – Mozambique
1:43 CAT | 22 May 2017
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A Renamo political delegate, has been in jail in Mutara district, Tete, for three weeks awaiting a hearing on a charge of allegedly disobeying the orders of a community leader.
Renamo, the country’s largest opposition party, accuses ruling party Frelimo of orchestrating the charge against Albino Wisky Lisboa.
Lisboa is being held at the Mutarara District Penitentiary pending a Public Prosecution hearing. He was arrested on 3 May in the village of Muandua.
“Information received shows that Ramin Bandaze, Frelimo’s first secretary at the Charre Administrative Post, ordered the imprisonment of the Renamo delegate. The detention occurred when Bandaze, in the company of other Frelimo elements, tried to prevent Renamo from flying its flag in the village,” the report in Renamo bulletin ‘A Perdiz’ states.
According to Renamo, the same group also destroyed flagposts at Renamo headquarters in the villages of Sossono, Nhumbo and Jardim in early May.
“Furthermore, in Tete, in the Tsangano district, two men from the Rapid Intervention Unit (UIR) Police went to the residence of Simão Daniel Januário, Renamo member and deputy of the local Provincial Assembly not having found him at home.”
Afonso Dhlakama’s party has also accused police authorities in Tete of acting in a partisan manner, and first secretary of Frelimo of fomenting hostility towards the opposition party in public speeches.
It should be noted that this is just one of several episodes occurring in the country, including murder of members of opposition parties. A considerable number of senior Renamo members and sympathisers were shot dead in Tete, some in broad daylight.
Source: A Verdade
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