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Ex-Renamo Official Explains His Resignation
(Maputo)
1 August 2008
Posted to the web 1 August 2008
Maputo
Raimundo Samuge, once a trusted cadre in Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Friday confirmed to reporters that he has resigned from Renamo and has no intention of returning.
Addressing a Maputo press conference, Samuge said he had sent his membership card, attached to a letter of resignation, back to Renamo on Tuesday.
Samuge was once an adviser to Renamo president Afonso Dhlakama, and in 2002 was national director of the party's mobilization department. He was then one of Renamo's appointees to the National Elections Committee (CNE) that organised the 2003 local elections and the 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections.
When that CNE ceased to exist, in May 2007, he presented himself for work at the Renamo headquarters. To his surprise, although the other Renamo former CNE members, were received with open arms, he was told he would have to wait for the return of Renamo general secretary Ossufo Momade, who was not in Maputo.
Even after Momade's return, he declined to receive Samuge. On 12 June 2007, Samuge received a text message from Momade on his mobile phone, telling him to "stay at home and await new instructions".
So Samuge waited, but no "new instructions" were forthcoming. He asked for a meeting with Dhlakama, but no audience with the party's top leader was granted. He concluded that the order to "await new instructions" was a way of suspending him from the party.
After a couple of months in which his wages were interrupted, Renamo resumed paying him, but Samuge believed this was just a way for the Party leadership to maintain an ambiguous situation. He decided "I could not abdicate from my right to political activity just because of my meagre party wage".
He believed that Renamo was avoiding the publicity attendant on expelling him from the party. "I realized there was a silent decision to get rid of me", he said, "but they didn't want to expel me because of Renamo's past experience with expulsions".
H was presumably thinking of the expulsion in 2000 of the former head of the Renamo parliamentary group, Raul Domingos. But Samuge stressed that he had no connection to Domingos, or to the Party of Peace, Democracy and Development (PDD) that Domingos founded after his expulsion.
No disciplinary proceedings under the Renamo statutes were started against him, he said, and he still did not know what offence he had committed in the eyes of the Renamo leadership. "I was suspended without being heard, and without any information", he said. "I was suspended for an unlimited period, and the other party members had instructions not to speak with me. Only the most courageous disobeyed".
The only disagreement he could recall was after the 2004 election results, when the Renamo leadership, angry at losing, and looking for people to blame, ordered the Renamo CNE appointees to resign, and they refused to obey. Even that, however, had only been a verbal instruction, and there was never a written Renamo decision to pull its members off the CNE.
Samuge said he had not yet decided to join any other political party, nor did he have any intention of running in the November municipal elections as an independent. "Each party has its own internal rules, just like Renamo", he said. "I need time to reflect".
The Renamo national spokesperson, Fernando Mazanga, shrugged off Samuge's resignation. He told AIM that "just as Samuge was not forced to join Renamo, so he was not forced to leave. It was a voluntary decision and we welcome it". He denied that any Renamo members had been told not to speak to Samuge.
As for Renamo's failure to give Samuge a job after he left the CNE, Mazanga said Renamo had no contract with him. When Samuge went into the CNE, his old job of head of mobilisation was occupied by somebody else, whose performance satisfied the party.
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Ex-Renamo Official Explains His Resignation
(Maputo)
1 August 2008
Posted to the web 1 August 2008
Maputo
Raimundo Samuge, once a trusted cadre in Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, on Friday confirmed to reporters that he has resigned from Renamo and has no intention of returning.
Addressing a Maputo press conference, Samuge said he had sent his membership card, attached to a letter of resignation, back to Renamo on Tuesday.
Samuge was once an adviser to Renamo president Afonso Dhlakama, and in 2002 was national director of the party's mobilization department. He was then one of Renamo's appointees to the National Elections Committee (CNE) that organised the 2003 local elections and the 2004 presidential and parliamentary elections.
When that CNE ceased to exist, in May 2007, he presented himself for work at the Renamo headquarters. To his surprise, although the other Renamo former CNE members, were received with open arms, he was told he would have to wait for the return of Renamo general secretary Ossufo Momade, who was not in Maputo.
Even after Momade's return, he declined to receive Samuge. On 12 June 2007, Samuge received a text message from Momade on his mobile phone, telling him to "stay at home and await new instructions".
So Samuge waited, but no "new instructions" were forthcoming. He asked for a meeting with Dhlakama, but no audience with the party's top leader was granted. He concluded that the order to "await new instructions" was a way of suspending him from the party.
After a couple of months in which his wages were interrupted, Renamo resumed paying him, but Samuge believed this was just a way for the Party leadership to maintain an ambiguous situation. He decided "I could not abdicate from my right to political activity just because of my meagre party wage".
He believed that Renamo was avoiding the publicity attendant on expelling him from the party. "I realized there was a silent decision to get rid of me", he said, "but they didn't want to expel me because of Renamo's past experience with expulsions".
H was presumably thinking of the expulsion in 2000 of the former head of the Renamo parliamentary group, Raul Domingos. But Samuge stressed that he had no connection to Domingos, or to the Party of Peace, Democracy and Development (PDD) that Domingos founded after his expulsion.
No disciplinary proceedings under the Renamo statutes were started against him, he said, and he still did not know what offence he had committed in the eyes of the Renamo leadership. "I was suspended without being heard, and without any information", he said. "I was suspended for an unlimited period, and the other party members had instructions not to speak with me. Only the most courageous disobeyed".
The only disagreement he could recall was after the 2004 election results, when the Renamo leadership, angry at losing, and looking for people to blame, ordered the Renamo CNE appointees to resign, and they refused to obey. Even that, however, had only been a verbal instruction, and there was never a written Renamo decision to pull its members off the CNE.
Samuge said he had not yet decided to join any other political party, nor did he have any intention of running in the November municipal elections as an independent. "Each party has its own internal rules, just like Renamo", he said. "I need time to reflect".
The Renamo national spokesperson, Fernando Mazanga, shrugged off Samuge's resignation. He told AIM that "just as Samuge was not forced to join Renamo, so he was not forced to leave. It was a voluntary decision and we welcome it". He denied that any Renamo members had been told not to speak to Samuge.
As for Renamo's failure to give Samuge a job after he left the CNE, Mazanga said Renamo had no contract with him. When Samuge went into the CNE, his old job of head of mobilisation was occupied by somebody else, whose performance satisfied the party.
"So samuge was told to wait, and it was recommended that he carry on working at the grass roots of the party", said Mazanga. (This was probably illegal - the employers of people who are appointed to the CNE are supposed to give them their old jobs back when they leave the CNE.)
Mazanga said the party would not react to Samuge's resignation, though it would do so if he decided to join another party.
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