MORRUMBALA RESIDENTS THANK GUEBUZA

Residents of Morrumbala district, in the central Mozambican province of Zambezia, on Tuesday thanked President Armando Guebuza for the work he had done for the country’s development during his ten years in office. A message presented at a rally addressed by Guebuza in Morrumbala town, as part of his “open and inclusive presidency” in the province praised the achievements in expanding the electricity, water supply and telecommunications networks, and in building new schools, hospitals, roads and bridges. “For the 500 years the settlers stayed in Mozambique, they never had the plan to build the kind of bridge that Guebuza built over the Zambezi river, which allows the circulation of vehicles day and night”, said one resident, Dikson Gulamanda. He was referring to about the bridge, named after Guebuza, which carries the main north-south road across the Zambezi, between Caia in Sofala province and Chimuara in Zambezia. Guebuza told the rally that, although his term of office is coming to an end, work to ensure development and the well-being of all Mozambicans must be continued in Morrumbala and throughout the country.  Morrumbala town, he said, “has changed greatly in comparison with what it used to be, thanks to the support its people have given to the implementation of development projects, which shows that Mozambique is united. We are the same. We work united by our Mozambican identity”.  People, he added, had to believe “in the past, which is the source, in the present, which is the current reality, and in the future, which is what we want to happen, in a spirit of unity because only thus will be have sufficient strength to overcome all the difficulties we face”.  “The unity of Mozambicans was built over time”, he continued. “When we talk about independence, we are talking about unity and peace which cost a great deal of sacrifice”. He recalled that during the war of destabilisation it was “almost impossible” to reach Morrumbala, “but the people resisted and consented to sacrifices until they achieved peace”.  Calling for the preservation of peace, Guebuza said “it is with this peace that we are building the Mozambique we want”. That did not mean there were no problems: “even when a child falls ill, that does not mean that he stops growing, merely that he has difficulties”, the President added.Mozambicans all “have the same destiny, and for that reason we shall continue to transmit the message of peace, dialogue and work. With violence we gain nothing, and only lose”, said Guebuza.