Watch: Nyusi closes officer’s course in Nampula – Mozambique

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Watch: Nyusi closes officer’s course in Nampula – Mozambique

8:04 CAT | 12 Dec 2016

File photo / President Filipe Nyusi

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Friday challenged the Samora Machel Military Academy, in the northern city of Nampula, to raise its capacity to train officers with a scientific capacity and vision.

Addressing the closing ceremony of the Academy’s ninth course for higher ranking officers, Nyusi said “we must always improve the quality of the training of officers for the better growth and modernization of our armed forces”.

He added that the Academy should always be able to provide scientific support for the country’s practical military schools, by assisting, for example, in drafting their curricula.

He noted that foreign students (two young Angolan officers) had attended the course, and regarded this as “unequivocal proof that our military academy has high levels of quality”.

“Internationalisation, through the mobility of students, teachers or even foreign researchers visiting the higher education institutions of our country is one of the conditions for self-assessment of the quality of education”, said Nyusi.

The President noted that the Academy’s prestige is such that the number of people applying to study far exceeds the number of places available. For the coming academic year over 3,000 young Mozambicans have applied to fill the few hundred places on the courses. “This is a sign of the readiness and awareness of Mozambican youth to defend the motherland”, he said.

He urged those graduating from the course to follow the example set by the man for whom the Academy is named, the country’s first President, Samora Machel.

“A people without heroes is a people without reference points”, declared Nyusi. “And the first reference point for this Academy must be the man it is named after, Marshal Samora Machel”.

Machel, he said, had distinguished himself as one of the finest sons of Mozambique “in the struggle for the liberation of the Mozambican people and of brother countries, as a fighter, a commander, a statesman and a leader”.

Like Machel, he urged, the graduates should be guided by a sense of discipline, courage, leadership, boldness and respect for the people. They should be exemplary “in interpreting in letter and in spirit the theories of command and military leadership”.