
Inauguração de 62 casas na Vila de Reassentamento Joaquim Marra, na localidade de Mangungumete, província de Inhambane
Maputo, 14 Sep (AIM) – Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi declared on Friday that his government prioritises dialogue with communities to avoid future conflicts, in the context of projects that exploit the country’s natural resources.
He was speaking in Inhassoro, in the southern province of Inhambane, during the inauguration of 62 houses in the Joaquim Marra resettlement town, in the locality of Mangungumete.
The houses were built by the South African petro-chemical giant, Sasol, which operates the natural gas processing facility at Temane in Inhassoro.
Nyusi praised the way in which resettlement has taken place in Inhambane.
“It was citizens themselves who asked for this project”, he said. “We don’t want pirate consultants who come just to divert our attention”.
The resettlement town involves single-family houses, built of resilient material, and facilities for education and sport, houses for the teachers and a church, said Nyusi.
“This is added value for us”, he declared. “Now we have a decent school, our children are going to study here, and this is a way of distributing wealth. Our teachers will live decently. They will not have to make long journeys every morning, or at the weekends. They will not have to leave their families behind because they have to give classes here”.
The “pirate consultants” said Nyusi, are those who never made any contribution to the development of the resettlement town, but merely “destabilize the communities”.
He described them as “those who live off the sacrifice of others to try and agitate. They say you are being taken away from here, and that your land is being usurped, but they never came when you were sitting with your child under the tree, studying under the tree, without water and without electricity. Now they come to fill out documents, produce reports and earn money, based on the suffering of some people”.
Nyusi claimed that in the Joaquim Marra rresettlement town there is “complete convergence and harmony between the government, the investors, the population and the financial institutions”.
He believed that, in the near future, the residents would not need to go far for other services, such as health care and banking.
“This expresses the common interest in establishing balanced development”, said the President, “and it rejects the narrative of the usurpation of land or the imposition of forced changes, bearing in mind the socio-economic advantages of these undertakings”.
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