The Minister of Human Development Education, Carmelita Namashulua, has not read the sixth grade Primary School textbooks despite having a legal obligation to do so.

According to information obtained by MZNews, in a recent closed-door meeting in Maputo, Namashulua showed that he was unaware of this legal obligation when he stated that it was not his competence, as the holder of the Education portfolio, to verify the errors, that is, to read the textbooks used in the country.

Our source avers that under Article 6 of Ministerial Diploma No. 84/2016, which Approves School Book Evaluation Regulation "the approval of the School Book is the Competence of the Minister of Education and Human Development, on the proposal of the School Book Evaluation Committee."

So, only with an Order from the Minister, which is, in fact, the opinion of a final evaluation, after the Commission, can all the other procedures be followed until the textbooks arrive in the classrooms. In other words, only after the Minister has read - in the broadest sense of the word - and approved the proposal of what will be taught, can the books be printed.

This puts the professional competencies of the current Minister of Education and Human Development in check. How can the Minister be unaware of this inherent to her position?

The textbook has arrived in the classrooms. From what has been said, it seems that it was because the Minister approved it. If she agreed to adopt the book, it is because she read it. If she read it, then she admitted the errors, or even agreed with the errors, for example, that "the Red Sea is in the interior of Africa. Or, at all, the Minister simply "dispatched" the Dispatch.

This issue has, in recent weeks, been the subject of debate in various quarters of society. This happened in a period when the Ministry of Transportation also saw its management weaknesses highlighted in the media. For this sector the problems culminated with the removal of former Minister Janfar Abdulai and his Deputy Minister, Manuela Rebelo. Voices questioned the continuity of the holder of the Education portfolio after the errors in the textbooks were exposed. On the contrary, the Minister anticipated and removed some staff from the National Institute for the Development of Education and the MINEDH spokesperson, who at the time said she was on indefinite vacation.

In that meeting, in which she allegedly said that it was not her responsibility to verify the errors in the manuals, Carmelita Namashulua dismissed any possibility of her being removed from office.

Our source writes that "Carmelita Namashulua is the wife of Fernando Faustino, Secretary General of the Association of Combatants of the National Liberation Struggle (ACLLIN).