The Provincial Committee of the Frelimo Party in Zambézia, meeting in session in the city of Quelimane last Monday (20), unanimously decided at 8pm to expel the MP, former Secretary for Mobilization and Propaganda and spokesperson for the Party at national level, Caifadine Paulo Manasse.

Manasse is accused of lack of secrecy regarding matters concerning the life of the party and its leaders, non-payment of quotas in the constituency, incitement to violence, incrimination of his colleagues in the notorious drug trafficking scandal through the Port of Macuse, which strangely enough, one of the detainees is his cousin. In the meantime, the sentence will be handed down at the meeting of the Frelimo Party Central Committee on March 24-25.

So this could be the culmination of a battlefield that has been going on since 2017, as evidenced by a story published on March 20, 2017, by Diário da Zambézia, in its edition number 2.423, with the headline "The two bandits inside Frelimo?". On that occasion, photos appeared of the current 1st Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic (AR), Hélder Injojo, and on the other side Caifadine Manasse, the one excluded from the party and government banquet.

At the time, the issue was the election of the new first secretary of the Frelimo Party in Zambézia, a process that inflamed and activated wings in the Frelimo Party, with both figures being called thugs by their supporters, however, However, the dispute ended up having an unexpected outcome with the downfall of MP Caifadine Manasse, who, during his time as Frelimo Party spokesperson, activated the "cabbage team" which, through social networks, insulted and threatened figures critical of the government of the day and independent investigative journalists.

Another detail, according to what we have learned, is that during the period in which Caifadine Manasse had a seat at the big table in Zambezia, he wouldn't let anyone do or touch the interests that supposedly benefited everyone in the districts where the projects were to be carried out. Furthermore, they were sent elsewhere without any tangible explanation.

However, this seems to be the fall of a man who rose "in a nebulous context" and today seems to have been left behind when the helicopter's rope burst in the middle of a mission to rescue the Party's muddy image internally and externally, due to various scandals, including: the increase in drug trafficking in the country, violent repression against citizens, activists, opposition politicians and independent journalists, the unbridled rise in the cost of living, social exclusion, the manipulation of statistics, among other cases. (Integrity Text)