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MAPUTO. — The spokesperson of Renamo opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, Antonio Muchanga, was arrested yesterday morning in Matola outskirts of the Mozambican capital of Maputo, on charges of inciting violence in all his public addresses.According to the Mozambican police spokesperson in Maputo, Orlando Muduana, police have been looking for Muchanga, since Saturday the day he took part in an illegal demonstration in Matola against election results.
The police said Muchanga is accused of two crimes namely incitement to violence and of staging an illegal demonstration
Renamo staged on Saturday demonstration in some parts of Mozambique as part of its threats of holding nationwide protests against last week’s ruling by the Constitutional Council, the country’s highest body in matters of constitutional and electoral law, which confirmed the victory of the ruling Frelimo Party and its presidential candidate, Filipe Nyusi, in the general elections of 15 October.
This is the second time Muchanga is arrested. Last year he spent almost 38 days in a maximum prison in the Mozambican capital also accused of incitement to violence and was only freed under the amnesty conceded by the government under the agreement to cease military hostilities between Renamo and the government signed on September 5, last year by president Armando Guebuza and Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama.
Renamo claims that the October elections were characterised by massive fraud and that in reality Dhlakama won 80 percent of the presidential vote. It has never presented any evidence for this claim.
The figures given by the National Elections Commission (CNE), and generally validated by the Constitutional Council, are that Nyusi won 57 percent of the vote, and Dhlakama 36.6 percent. The parallel count by the Electoral Observatory, the largest and most credible group of Mozambican election observers, produced a very similar result. — Xinhua.
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