Renamo's military wing is threatening to implement its latest plan to impose transparency and dialog in the party, days after submitting a precautionary measure against party president Ossufo Momade to the Maputo City Court..

The former guerrillas of what has until now been Mozambique's largest opposition party say that Renamo is falling apart as a result of the lack of internal dialog during Ossufo Momade's seven years in power.

According to a VOAThe former Renamo guerrillas are demanding an urgent meeting of the National Council, which includes the demobilized, transparency in the party's accounts and the dismissal of the leader.

"When there is a lack of transparency in the leadership, the members and the people opt for distrust. The combatants' group wants the National Council to be held, extended to the combatants, for a total reflection of the house, because the house is destroying itself," said João Machava, former founder of the disappeared self-styled Renamo Military Junta, led by Mariano Nhongo, justifying the injunction against the leader.

The source accused the leader of taking part in secret meetings to negotiate the elections and of embezzlement, as well as systematically violating the party's statutes.

The former guerrilla commander, who took part in the three "invasions" of Renamo's national headquarters in the last two months, added that several attempts to force a line of dialogue failed, even after a commission of former guerrillas was set up at the request of the party leadership and an intermediary was appointed.

"I say frankly that it failed, that until yesterday (Saturday 04) I had no information about the dialog, but only because we submitted the injunction to the Court on Friday 3, today (Sunday 5), an intermediary of the party says that the people of the dialog are preparing, to contact us," he added.

For his part, Josefo de Sousa, the Renamo general regarded as an ally of Ossufo Momade, although he disagrees with judicial appeals to deal with Renamo's internal affairs, insists that the former guerrillas have been sidelined, which has led to the current dissatisfaction.

"If you don't listen to the demobilized, considering them illiterate, you're wrong, and more and more this organization is going downhill," Josefo de Sousa said, stressing that "this party that we sacrificed so much for, this democracy that is being shouted about in Mozambique, was thanks to those who are being despised today".

The general, who was reported dead in 2019, allegedly after being held in a Renamo base by Ossufo Momade, emphasizes that he is not allied with the protest group, but supports the cause to save the organization, which must reorganize itself in the conditions in which it was penalized in the October general elections.

"I sacrificed my life not to watch these jokes. I also sacrificed my life not to be heard, because a person cannot be measured by the palm of the hand, when you measure a man by the palm of the hand, it ends up generating conflict and (that's) what we're seeing," he said.

Sousa called for Renamo to unite and for the "leadership of the party (which) should now try to analyze the painful results we've had and we're going to have more if we don't unite".

Meanwhile, quoted by state-run Radio Mozambique, the deputy national head of Mobilization, Domingos Gundana, says that the party is unaware of the injunction.

Renamo was the party most penalized by the results of the last general elections, and lost its status as the largest opposition party to PODEMOS, which made its debut in the 2019 general elections, according to data from the Constitutional Council.

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