After 10 months since the closure of the last Renamo military base, more than half of the guerrillas from that political formation, covered by the DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration) process, has not yet received his respective pension. According to data released yesterday by the President of Renamo, of the 5,221 guerrillas demobilized between 2019 and 2023, only 1,935 already receive pensions, representing 37.1 percent of this universe. The remaining 3,286 (equivalent to 62.9 percent) have not yet seen the color of the DDR money. Speaking this Sunday, during the opening of the VI Ordinary Session of the party’s National Council, which took place yesterday in Maputo, Ossufo Momade said that, of the 5,221 processes submitted to the Ministry of Economy and Finance for the purposes of establishing pensions, until last March, only 3,486 had been referred to the Administrative Court, of which 2,522 already have the appropriate visa. Momade also states that, in addition to reaching understandings with the Government to establish pensions, he also managed to place 46 “partridge” officers in the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM), with another 100 combatants recently completing training to join the corporation. For Ossufo Momade, these are achievements that had not yet been achieved by the party since the General Peace Agreement, celebrated in Rome (Italy), in 1992. However, he was dissatisfied with the slowness of the process and the non-compliances of the Agreement. In fact, speaking at the opening session of the event, the President of the Association of Combatants of the Struggle for Democracy defended the completion of the process during Filipe Nyusi’s mandate, so as not to lose these “achievements”. Regarding the economic sustainability projects, agreed with the Government, the President of Renamo guaranteed that he will never tire of their materialization, so “we will continue to demand the counterparty of the Agreement to comply with it”. “We appeal to our heroes not to be shaken by irresponsible statements that aim to devalue our collective effort and commitment, because as leader of this Party, we will do everything to ensure that the Maputo Peace and Reconciliation Agreement is fulfilled in spirit and letter “, assured Ossufo Momade. Remember that the lack of agreement and guarantees from the Government for the payment of pensions was the reason that led the Renamo guerrillas to boycott the closure of the Vunduzi base, on December 19, 2022, the last military base in the “partridge” . It should be noted that the DDR began on July 31, 2019 with the demobilization of the first former Renamo guerrillas in the famous Renamo Headquarters, in Gorongosa, and was completed on June 15, 2023. The lack of funds has always been in the origin of successive postponements. (A. Maolela) Source: Carta de Moçambique
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