Mahamudo Amurane

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Mahamudo Amurane (2013)

Mahamudo Amurane (born June 2, 1973 in the village of Itoculo, Monapo District , Nampula Province , Portuguese East Africa ; † October 4, 2017 in Nampula , Mozambique ) was a Mozambican politician ( MDM ). Amurane has been the mayor of one of Mozambique's largest cities, Nampula, since 2014.

Life

education

Mahamudo Amurane was born on June 2, 1973 in simple circumstances in the village of Itoculo in the Monapo district of the Nampula province in the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Since his father died at an early age, Amurane grew up mainly with his siblings, who also raised him. He first attended elementary school (EPC) in Marocane before he moved to the boarding school of the Catholic Mission of Iapala, where he completed the 7th grade. Amurane, destitute, moved to Nampula to complete secondary school at Escola Secundária 1º de Maio .

By chance, Amurane found training to be an air traffic controller, which he completed as the best in his class, so that he was able to take a follow-up course in the capital, Maputo . His sister, Adelaide Amurane , who was already working in the Mozambican ministerial bureaucracy at the time, advised against it because the training offered no future in Mozambique. She organized bookkeeping, administration and finance for her brother in Brazil for small business owners.

Professional career

After his stay in Brazil, Amurane returned to Maputo to work with his sister in the Gabinete de Promoção de Emprego  (German: "Department for Employment Policy") in the Ministry of Labor. After three years, Amurane again spent some time in Brazil thanks to a scholarship, where he worked for the Banco Brasileiro and the Instituto de Previdência de Servidores Públicos in Belo Horizonte , among others .

Despite some job offers, Amurane returned to Mozambique. After a period of unemployment, he started working as an administrative clerk in the pharmaceutical company Medis Famaceutica Limitada in 1997 . In 2000 he moved to the Instituto Médio da Administração Pública in Maputo as a lecturer , and in 2001 he lectured at the Instituto Politécnico Universitário in Quelimane . In 2001, Amurane also found a job as a civil servant in the Zambézia Province Health Administration. In 2004 he moved to the health administration in Cabo Delgado.

After another lecturer at the Universidade Mussa Bin Bique , he worked from 2006 for the Spanish education NGO Intermón Oxfam , and from February 2007 to February 2012 for the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) in the “Pro Educação” project in the province Sofala. From March to December 2012 he worked as a financial advisor for the UN children's aid organization Unicef . In 2012/13 Amurane founded his own pharmacy ( Farmácia Amurane ).

Elected mayor of Nampula

In the early 2010s, Mahamudo Amurane joined the then emerging opposition party Movimento Democrático de Moçambique (MDM). After the party won the mayor's office of the city of Quelimane in the 2011 by-elections, the party began to focus even more on the local election campaigns. In 2012, the MDM nominated Amurane as a candidate for the mayor's office of the city of Nampula. The largest opposition party, the RENAMO, boycotted the local elections in 2013 for political reasons. The MDM won an average of 30% of the votes from the 53 participating local authorities. The mayoral seats in  Beira  and  Quelimane  were confirmed, after a repetition of the election, the MDM with Amurane as a candidate also won the town hall of Nampula. Amurane promised in the election campaign to make Nampula “more liveable” and, above all, to fight crime and pollution. He took office in February 2014.

During his tenure, Amurane hired a lot of staff for the local city cleaning service, among other things, but residents of Nampula complained about the poor quality of city services from their point of view. The fire brigade of Nampula is "not functional". Some NGOs from the good governance area, in turn, praised Amurane for his anti-corruption stance, with which he had made numerous enemies in the city - both in politics and in business.

Since the beginning of 2017, Amurane's tenure has increasingly overshadowed a conflict with the mother party. Amurane dismissed several councilors who belonged to the MDM. Daviz Simango, national chairman of the MDM, complained about disobedience on the part of Amurane and a lack of understanding of the political rules. Amurane, on the other hand, claimed that the party had demanded that city funds be transferred to the party and that because of his disobedience it was now trying to attach "corruption" to him. He saw himself as a "victim of his own party". In August 2017, the dispute between the two sides escalated, Amurane announced that he would leave the party and run as an independent candidate in the 2018 local elections. The MDM claimed it had not received Amurane's resignation, but planned to put up another candidate for mayor at a party conference in December 2017.

death

Mahamudo Amurane was murdered with three gunshots by a man in front of his house in the Namutequeliua district of his hometown Nampula on October 4, 2017 - the holiday for the peace treaty between the ruling FRELIMO party and the opposition RENAMO ("Dia da Paz") party. The motive or the circumstances are unclear.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e No Dia da Paz foi assassinado um homem que desafiou o seu destino. In: A Verdade. October 5, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2017 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Nelson Carvalho: Em Nampula, vitória oficial para o MDM apesar da grande abstenção. Deutsche Welle, December 4, 2013, accessed October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Nelson Carvalho: Nampula aguarda com grande expetativa posse do novo edil. Deutsche Welle, January 16, 2014, accessed October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Amurane recruta mão-de-obra barata para a limpeza da cidade. In: A Verdade. July 10, 2014, accessed October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ Lixo abunda em Nampula. In: A Verdade. March 9, 2017, Retrieved October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Lixo continua nas ruas de Nampula apesar das promessas. In: VOA Português. March 23, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Residentes de Nampula queixam-se dos bombeiros. In: VOA Português. November 10, 2016, accessed October 6, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Nádia Issufo: Mozambique : A quem "suja" e interested o assassinato de Amurane? Deutsche Welle, October 5, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  9. ↑ Sitoi Lutxeque: Moçambique: Mahamudo Amurane em rota de colisão com MDM. Deutsche Welle, May 30, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  10. ↑ Edil de Nampula exonera vereadores. In: A Verdade. May 8, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  11. ↑ Xiconhoquices da semana: Conflito Amurane e MDM; Naufrágio no rio Chipaca; Bombeiros forneceram água casa de Jorge Khalau. In: A Verdade. February 17, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  12. ↑ Amurane diz que MDM quer denegri-lo por nicht pactuar com corrupção. In: O País. February 8, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  13. ↑ Edil de Nampula queixa-se de ser vítima do próprio partido. In: A Verdade. February 8, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  14. ^ Nampula: Amurane diz que vai continuar mesmo sem MDM. In: VOA Português. April 14, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Sitoi Lutxeque: Nampula: MDM not reconhece saída de Amurane. Deutsche Welle, August 29, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Luciano da Conceição: MDM já pensa em novo candidato para Nampula. Deutsche Welle, August 25, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
  17. ^ Assassinado presidente do município de Nampula Mahamudo Amurane. In: VOA Português. October 4, 2017. Retrieved October 6, 2017 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Amurane, Mahamudo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican politician (MDM), Mayor of Nampula
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd June 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Itoculo village, Monapo District , Nampula Province , Portuguese East Africa
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2017
Place of death Nampula , Mozambique