
O Partido FRELIMO, submete submete a candidatura de DANIEL FRANCISCO CHAPO à Presidente da República, no quadro das Eleições marcadas para 9 de Outubro do corrente ano. Chegada de Chapo ao Conselho constitucional. Foto de Ferhat Momade
Maputo, 11 Jun (AIM) – Multinational companies operating in Mozambique should hire more local companies and local labour, urged Daniel Chapo, the candidate of the ruling Frelimo Party in the presidential elections scheduled for 9 October.
Speaking on Monday in the southern city of Inhambane, where the current President, Filipe Nyusi, introduced him as the Frelimo candidate, Chapo said “for work such as gardening, or cleaning offices, no specialization is required. It should be local companies that do these jobs, so that the money stays in the local communities, in small and medium enterprises, particularly the enterprises of our young people”.
Chapo recalled that, when he had been governor of Inhambane province, from 2016 until May of this year, he had always encouraged the main foreign investor in the province, the South African petrochemical company Sasol, to hire local small and medium enterprises for the services that it required.
“Today, this is happening in the Inhambane district of Inhassoro”, he said. “And this is the experience we want to transmit to all of Mozambique, in the places where our natural gas, rubies, heavy mineral sands, and any other resources are being exploited.
He stressed that the multinational companies operating throughout the country must recognize that Mozambicans deserve their priority attention.
“Mozambicans need more schools, more hospitals, and more water. Our young people need more training centres, and financing for businesses”, said Chapo. “Hence we want to replicate throughout the country what we did for small and medium enterprises in Inhassoro”.
He noted that in Inhassoro Sasol had built one of the finest technical and professional training centres in the country. Inaugurated in November 2022, the centre has five classrooms each able to hold 20 students, and workshops in mechanics, electricity and industrial soldering.
“We want more such training centres for young people”, he stressed.
Such initiatives, he believed, should have a rapid impact because of the legal provision that obliges multinationals to allocate ten per cent of their revenue to the provinces where they are exploiting natural and mineral resources.
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