ISLANDERS ASK GUEBUZA FOR ELECTRICITY
Residents of Quirimba island, in Ibo district, off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, on Sunday asked President Armando Guebuza to ensure that they too can benefit from the national electricity grid based on the Cahora Bassa dam.Quirimba is one of the largest islands in an archipelago of 27 islands. Their wild life and natural beauty has ensured them a place on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In 2002, the government established the Quirimbas National Park, which covers the 11 southern islands and a large stretch of coastal forest and mangroves on the mainland.But the residents of the archipelago are asking for electricity, and for facilities for which they currently have to travel to the mainland. They asked Guebuza for a secondary school, a hospital, nurses, and an ambulance, as well as an institution that could issue identity documents.They also wanted a boat for passenger transport to the mainland, and improvements in the mainland road leading to the provincial capital, Pemba. Guebuza replied that all the problems presented at this rally showed that poverty, defined as the lack of the minimum necessary for a decent life, persists in Mozambique. “Poverty means that there are things that are important for our life which we cannot obtain”, he said. “Poverty is not having food, schools, hospitals, water, electricity, telephones. Poverty is also not knowing how to read and write. Poverty is suffering from diseases such as malaria and diarrhoeas. These are signs of poverty”.Guebuza declared that nowadays “having a telephone is not a luxury, it’s a necessity, and not having one is a sign of poverty”.“The government wants to see all these problems solved”, he stressed, “but there is a contradiction between the needs and the means available”.Problems would this be solved as and when the means to solve them became available. Guebuza warned that the fight against poverty would take a long time, but there were various ways of fighting against poverty – at school, in the fields, in the hospital, wherever work is needed to overcome problems.“There are the so called diseases of the poor, such as malaria and cholera, provoked by mosquitoes and flies”, he continued. “So piles of rubbish and pools of stagnant water ate also signs of poverty. Cleaning our houses is also a way of fighting against poverty”.“The government considers all the problems, but cannot solve everything at once”. Guebuza said. “It solves those that it can solve, while seeking solutions for the problems that are more serious”.
Residents of Quirimba island, in Ibo district, off the coast of the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, on Sunday asked President Armando Guebuza to ensure that they too can benefit from the national electricity grid based on the Cahora Bassa dam.Quirimba is one of the largest islands in an archipelago of 27 islands. Their wild life and natural beauty has ensured them a place on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In 2002, the government established the Quirimbas National Park, which covers the 11 southern islands and a large stretch of coastal forest and mangroves on the mainland.But the residents of the archipelago are asking for electricity, and for facilities for which they currently have to travel to the mainland. They asked Guebuza for a secondary school, a hospital, nurses, and an ambulance, as well as an institution that could issue identity documents.They also wanted a boat for passenger transport to the mainland, and improvements in the mainland road leading to the provincial capital, Pemba. Guebuza replied that all the problems presented at this rally showed that poverty, defined as the lack of the minimum necessary for a decent life, persists in Mozambique. “Poverty means that there are things that are important for our life which we cannot obtain”, he said. “Poverty is not having food, schools, hospitals, water, electricity, telephones. Poverty is also not knowing how to read and write. Poverty is suffering from diseases such as malaria and diarrhoeas. These are signs of poverty”.Guebuza declared that nowadays “having a telephone is not a luxury, it’s a necessity, and not having one is a sign of poverty”.“The government wants to see all these problems solved”, he stressed, “but there is a contradiction between the needs and the means available”.Problems would this be solved as and when the means to solve them became available. Guebuza warned that the fight against poverty would take a long time, but there were various ways of fighting against poverty – at school, in the fields, in the hospital, wherever work is needed to overcome problems.“There are the so called diseases of the poor, such as malaria and cholera, provoked by mosquitoes and flies”, he continued. “So piles of rubbish and pools of stagnant water ate also signs of poverty. Cleaning our houses is also a way of fighting against poverty”.“The government considers all the problems, but cannot solve everything at once”. Guebuza said. “It solves those that it can solve, while seeking solutions for the problems that are more serious”.
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