Mozambique: Govt Denies Debt to Ex-SNASP Members

Maputo — Mozambique’s Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Josefina Mpelo, has categorically denied that the government owes vast sums in compensation to former members of the now disbanded security service, SNASP.

Hundreds of mostly elderly former SNASP employees had camped for a week outside the United Nations offices in Maputo, demanding that the supposed debt be paid, until they were forcibly dispersed by the police last Tuesday.

It is not at all clear why the former SNASP members think they are…