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Mozambique: Municipal Vehicle Used Clandestinely By Renamo
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Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo)
23 January 2008
Posted to the web 23 January 2008
Maputo
The Beira Municipal Council in central Mozambique, one of the five municipalities run by the opposition Renamo-Electoral Union coalition, has been caught out lending a vehicle to Renamo.
It is usually the ruling Frelimo Party that is accused of abusing state or municipal property - but Beira council was found to have lent its vehicle, an Izusu, to Renamo, when the car was involved in an accident in Marromeu district, on the south bank of the Zambezi.
The vehicle was carrying the two Renamo-appointed members of the Sofala Provincial Elections Commission, Lucas Zabica and Patreque Chicamisse, but it was apparently on Renamo rather than commission business.
Confronted with a municipal vehicle found hundreds of kilometres from Beira, carrying two Renamo politicians, the mayor of Beira, Daviz Simango, claimed that the Izusu had been lent to the Beira City Elections Commission. It was the duty of the municipality, argued Simango, to support the electoral bodies, which are currently organizing the complete re-registration of the Mozambican electorate.
But according to a report in the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mocambique", both the provincial and the city elections commissions have denied ever receiving any vehicle from Beira Council.
The chairperson of the provincial commission, Prakash Prehlad, declared "We neither received nor requested any vehicles. We don't have any document concerning a request for, or offer of, a car".
Neither he, nor the lower body, the City Elections Commission, knew anything about the municipal vehicle, said Prehlad. And since Simango claimed he had offered it to the City Commission, Prehlad said he had no idea how it had ended up in the hands of two members of the provincial commission.
"The question is", Prehlad accused, "that these two men used the fact that they are members of the Provincial Commission as a cloak for doing work for Renamo, and they used a car that belongs to the municipal government".
The chairperson of the Beira City Commission, Domingos Coimbra, also told "Diario de Mocambique" that at no time had the commission received any vehicle from the Beira Council.
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"The only car that has been working with our members was provided by the provincial branch of the Electoral Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE - the electoral branch of the civil service)", said Coimbra.
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