On August 11, the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, demanded an urgent solution to the delays and discrepancies in the salaries of members of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) and the Defense and Security Forces (FDS) due to the application of the Single Salary Table (TSU), warning that the timely payment of salaries "is sacred" and that he would not tolerate "excuses". However, a month later, irregularities still prevail.

This Monday, the Mozambican Police Association complained about irregularities in the payment of salaries to police officers and wants explanations from the government.

"Salaries are still going out in a way that we can't understand. Some get paid and others don't. Those who receive continue to have a discount that nobody can justify and nobody comes out to explain," said Nazário Muanambane, president of the Mozambican Police Association (Amopaip), during a press conference in Maputo, quoted by Lusa.

The president of the police association wants explanations from "those who are entitled to them" for the deductions and delays in paying officers' salaries, while acknowledging that there has been a "gradual payment" of salaries.

"We don't need two people to be paid today (...) why aren't all members of the police paid their salaries on time as they were" before the implementation of the new salary scale, asked Nazário Muanambane.

In the case of the Defense and Security Forces, and just a few days after the commander-general of the police, Bernardino Rafael, acknowledged the two months' salary arrears to members of the corps, Filipe Nyusi ordered that payment be resumed using the previous platforms, until the problems are overcome, as the commander himself called for.

According to previous information from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the delays in paying the salaries of the Defense and Security Forces are due to registration problems in the new payment system, taking into account the migration to the single system that began in June, which was previously done through the ministries of the Interior and Defense.

It should be remembered that the TSU was approved in 2022 in order to eliminate asymmetries and keep the state wage bill under control in the medium term, but the start-up has caused salaries to skyrocket by around 36%, from an expenditure of 11.6 billion meticais per month to 15.8 billion meticais.