The former administrator of Erati district, in the northern Mozambican province of Nampula has been arrested, on charges of stealing money from the district Development Fund (FDD), according to a report in Monday’s is sue of the independent newsheet “Mediafax”.The former administrator, Agostinho Chelua, now works at the secretariat of the Nampula provincial government. Police armed with a warrant from the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office arrested him at the provincial secretariat on Friday.The FDD is still commonly known as “the seven million” because it began in 2006 as an allocation of seven million meticais (about 197,000 US dollars) from the state budget to each of the country’s 128 districts. The money was supposed to be lent to citizens with viable projects that would boost food production and create jobs.But, according to “Mediafax”, in Erati Chelua diverted some of this money to the construction of a small hotel. He also allegedly facilitated the provision of a tractor to a man who was already a successful business figure in the district.
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