“The opposition intends to bring the settler back” – Frelimo number 1 in Zambézia

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“The opposition intends to bring the settler back” – Frelimo number 1 in Zambézia

8:00 CAT | 31 Aug 2017

Jornal Txopela / Paulino Lenco

The First Secretary of the Frelimo Provincial Committee in Zambézia, Paulino Lenço, said in Quelimane recently that opposition parties like the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM) and the National Resistance of Mozambique (RENAMO) were committed to bringing colonialists back to the country.

Paulino Lenço made the statements on the margins of a meeting held under the aegis of the Mozambican Youth Organisation (OJM) of the city of Quelimane, in which he addressed students of the Quelimane Teachers’ Training Institute. The meeting was also attended by the Quelimane district administrator Carlos Baptista Carneiro.

At a meeting attended by the students from the vocational training institution, Lenço began by asking young people to stop despising Frelimo, because Frelimo had liberated the people from the colonial yoke and was the only party with a programme aligned with the interests of the Mozambican people.

“We must pay close attention to these parties that are appearing now,“ he said. “Our country has already gone through three wars and you do not know the real motivations for these wars. Mozambique is rich in natural resources and many whites want to exploit them and take them to their countries, so they finance parties like Renamo to destabilise us while they exploit our riches. That is why young people have to be very attentive to these fallacious opposition parties.”

Frelimo’s Provincial Secretary in Zambezia cited as an example the fact that during the commemorations of the 75th anniversary of the city of Quelimane, the City Hall brought to Quelimane some Mozambicans residing in the diaspora. “Did you see what happened during Quelimane’s 75th birthday celebrations?” he asked. “Do you believe it’s true what they’ve been saying, that they are Quelimanians living in the diaspora? Why have they not come here before if they really love their country? Take care, young people! These opposition parties have no agenda with the people. They are just being used by colonialists who left the country to bring them back and continue to exploit our land and our people,” Lenço predicted.

To support his position, Lenço talked about Libya which, according to him, “was the richest country on the continent. But because of external forces the Libyan people ordered the death of its leader Muhammad Gaddafi, and what was the richest country in Africa is now the poorest. So do not despise Frelimo, which is our father and our mother, because after killing it, you will not have schools to teach in, because there will be no longer be any government committed to the people,” he said.

Some 78 Mozambicans living abroad, mostly in Portugal, spent a week in Quelimane at the invitation of the mayor, taking part in celebrations commemorating the 75th anniversary of the city’s elevation to that category.

Source: Jornal Txopela